The Bunnings Warehouse chain has complained to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) about a ruling that the hardware retailer claims will severely hurt its sales in the lead-up to summer.

The ACCC has issued an order directing Bunnings to withdraw from sale garden hoses which the consumer watchdog said were misleadingly labelled as “kink free” when they all were riddled with kinks soon after purchase and initial use. (main picture).

Under the order Bunnings is required to either cease selling the hoses or repackage them without including any claims about the devices being “kink free”.

A Bunnings spokesperson said the company would be challenging the ACCC’s order which had the potential to adversely impact its sales as the hot summer months approach.

“We totally deny any suggestion that we have been misleading our customers with the current branding and labelling of the hoses we sell,” the spokesperson said.

“The fact is that all the hoses we sell are made in a city in China call Qinq Frei and we have simply Anglicised the name.

“We believe customers are well aware of the quality of our products,” the spokesperson said.

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LONDON: Queen Camilla remains in seclusion with what Buckingham Palace officials have described as “a chest infection”.

Her Majesty missed Remembrance Sunday events yesterday which were attended by her husband King Charles III.

A source within the royal household staff at the couple’s residence, Clarence House, said it may be some time before the Queen was again able to undertake public duties.

“Only today I heard her say to a footman just after breakfast: ‘Giz another chest infection and put more gin and more ice in it this time, there’s a good lad’,” the source who did not wish to be named said.

“She’s taken to having a couple of chest infections after breakfast, then a few before lunch and a couple or three for afternoon tea before having a few at dinner so it might be a few days or even weeks before we see her in public again,” the source said.

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