Ryan Bridge: Where are all the wise owls at hardware stores?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Aug 4, 2026 · 2m · transcript

I've been spending a bit of time in hardware stores lately.

Which is great because most let you bring your dog along, and when it's raining you can basically walk the dog for half an hour indoors.

Anyway, last week I was in the shop looking for a sealer for a limestone tile.

Now, I have no idea about sealers and don’t know much about limestone tiles either.

But this is why you go to Bunnings or to Mitre 10, right? There's be someone there who knows about this stuff.

Well, fifteen minutes spent trying to track somebody down in a red t-shirt and overalls, and they had no idea.

One young person…