Big Box Retail

Woolworths is set to close 30 Big W stores and two distribution centres Australia-wide as the impact of online retail continues to bite department stores.

Less than two years ago, Aussie hardware giant Bunnings Warehouse insisted it had no plans to join other major retailers in offering storewide online shopping to its customers.

Bunnings managing director Michael Schneider says the hardware chain will continue to open more physical stores as it looks to connect with commercial and trade customers as well as everyday shoppers.

An Abbotsford warehouse leased to Swedish furniture goliath IKEA has sold to a Chinese investor for more than $17 million.

The fate of the abandoned Masters Home Improvement warehouse in Portsmith has finally been revealed — and what is planned will come as a surprise.

Billionaire Gerry Harvey says it’s impossible to find suitable land for the next rollout of Harvey Norman flagship stores in Australia and will settle on redeveloping one of the group’s pre-existing Melbourne stores.

Owning your very own Bunnings warehouse may well be the ultimate renovator dream — especially if it earns over a million dollars in annual income.

A Harvey Norman distribution centre that services most of Northern Tasmania will be auctioned next week, and agents say it’s got a major advantage over almost any other retail warehouse in Australia. The industrial building …

The Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania is set to sell the 4ha site on which the Glenorchy Bunnings Warehouse was built.