Wesfarmers, mother or father firm of Bunnings, right this moment launched an audacious try and take management of all 8,390 polling cubicles in Australia, in a transparent play for the profitable charity sausage-sizzle market.
Bunnings as soon as managed 80% of the sausage-sizzle market (SSM), however figures right this moment confirmed its share had fallen under 10% as customers flocked to competitor SS operators at polling cubicles.
In what could be seen as a reverse takeover (Bunnings has simply 324 retailers), Wesfarmers would take management of election-day operations at colleges, church buildings and neighborhood halls across the nation.
“Folks solely come to polling cubicles as a result of they know they’ll be rewarded with a sausage, which can also be the one motive they arrive to Bunnings. So it’s a pure match,” a spokesperson for the {hardware} chain mentioned.
He believed Bunnings might add so much to the voting course of. “No-one places an oily sausage in white bread like we do – we expect we will deliver quite a lot of efficiencies. Get your sausage, vote in your favorite candidate, and stroll out with a compound mitre noticed you by no means wished”.
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