Fairy Meadow hardware store finally sunk by ‘big box’ dominance

By Ben Langford
Updated March 15 2018 - 7:08am, first published March 14 2018 - 6:30pm
ENDANGERED SPECIES: René Tummers has called time on his Hardex store at Fairy Meadow, after almost 20 years of battling the bigger industry monoliths. Picture: Sylvia Liber.
ENDANGERED SPECIES: René Tummers has called time on his Hardex store at Fairy Meadow, after almost 20 years of battling the bigger industry monoliths. Picture: Sylvia Liber.

Fairy Meadow hardware store owner René Tummers said he was hit with a 50 per cent drop in customers was soon as the new Bunnings store at Bellambi opened last October.

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