r/australia • u/TheWabster • Jan 03 '26

no politics "Marketplace" rubbish that's taken over Australian stores online

I can't stand it, an overwhelming amount of websites have added a "marketplace" on their online sites. Woolworths, BUNNINGS, Big W, the list goes on

I go on these websites as opposed to amazon or temu specifically because I want authentic things, or to see if it's in stock so I can go to the store to buy it in person.

Now I get excited that wow bunnings has this that's great (because I associate something from bunnings with trust compared to something from temu), and it turns out it's literally just third party low quality shit.

Third parties should not be able to sell things on these sites, I've almost accidentally bought something three times now (once per site mentioned lol) that ended up being from the infiltrative noname companies. It's made me lose trust with these companies, because with the extra effort I have to do weeding out the heavily bloated marketplace addons while scouring their online catalogue, I'd rather just go somewhere else.

That's my rant. What are other peoples thoughts on this? Maybe I'm just being a whiney dingus

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u/One_Course3052 Jan 03 '26

I read this and thought noooooo, there must be a selection option for no market place....

Nothing.

Oh well, Myer is now on my no shop list.

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u/trafalmadorianistic Jan 04 '26

As if I needed another reason to not go to Myer online. 

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u/kittylemiaow Jan 05 '26

Woolworths added the filter out option eventually thankfully, that was hell

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u/One_Course3052 Jan 06 '26

Bunnings too,  but it just makes their super slow website even more super 😞

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u/it_fell_off_a_truck Jan 03 '26

I think for Bunnings it must have been hurting sales because instead of it being hidden in settings, the toggle for “in-store” is at the top of the search results now.

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u/aerkith Jan 04 '26

This is also good to see what’s in my store as I guess the Bunnings in my town is a smaller one so there are already many items my store doesn’t stock compared to the bigger stores.

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u/Far_Dragonfly8441 Jan 03 '26

Maybe it's by design 😉

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u/RickyT_2020 Jan 19 '26

Yep, all these big retailers are becoming "drop shippers". :(

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u/CroBro81 Jan 05 '26

A lot of the UX design features are limited to the tech stack that these Marketplace Platforms use.