woolworths moves into hardware, page-14

DKS now in WOW's hands, now back to waiting to see what happens. Im expecting supply line rationalisation as well as implimentation of some of the stock management technologies used by WOW (Autostocker and the like) to get efficency gains out of the supply line before the big box sites come on the market. Basically nothing exciting will be happening in the short term but long term we may well see some fierce compertition in the hardware sector, which is still very fragmented and with WOW supplying independents as well as their own Brand they should lock in a decent percentage of that market