That article certainly looks like Bunnings is not doing well in the UK at all. They are an odd store, very big with a huge range of products but generally the cheaper end of hardware...
Yes, I should have flagged that the article was from 2018 when the full extent of the debacle was coming to light. Bunnings had made no attempt to understand the UK market and had merely ripped out the interior of a number of their newly purchased stores and filled them with cheap power tools and giant barbecues. My local Homebase was one of the first to succumb. It spent a year packed with Ozzie products and no customers. As GrumpyPa said, eventually Bunnings threw in the towel ... 1 billion Ozzie dollars the poorer. The Homebase signs went back up and my local store was again refitted to look much as it had before.
I love a good corporate incompetence story and this one is up there with the Hoover "Free Flights" fiasco (which resulted in the parent company exiting Europe for good) and Volkswagen taking over Rolls Royce Motors but neglecting to buy the name.
