Sadness as longstanding business in CBD closes its doors

Nambour Disposals owners Darren and Simone Woodhouse are shutting their door. There’s a store-wide sale until March 15.

A Nambour business is shutting its doors after serving the town in good times and bad for 60 years. 

Nambour Disposals owner Darren Woodhouse, who has been a part of the business for the last 27 years,  announced the Currie Street store would be “hanging its boots up” with doors closing for good on March 15. 

Darren said it was a tough decision to make, especially since he was born and raised in Nambour and his parents Dave and Jan owned the store before him. Dave Woodhouse was a builder and built the original timber rodeo yards at Nambour Showgrounds, the Badminton Centre at the Showgrounds and Nambour PCYC in Burnside.

“Look it’s just the result of a general downturn in business, cost of living pressures,” said Darren. “Interest rates are up. We’ve been here a while, business was just a little bit slow. And our costs have gone through the roof.”

Darren maintains his sense of humour and says said the situation was ironic to some extent.

“We sell survival stuff, so if anyone was going to survive, you’d think it would have been us,” he laughed. 

But, more seriously, he said it was a shame to see another family business shutting down, and one that attracted people to Nambour’s main street. “We used to have a lot of big shops in the main street,” he said. “What have we got now  ... gyms, coffee shops, employment agencies. There’s not that much in the main street to attract anyone.”

It didn’t help that the business lost $8000 worth of stock from rain damage last year, nor that there had been 4 attempted break-ins in the past year.

But after having enjoyed only one week’s holiday in years he was looking forward to spending time on his property in Mary Valley.

Store-wide Sale 30% off 

Nambour Disposals is having a store-wide sale until March 15. Customers can enjoy 30 percent off work wear, work boots, raincoats, army gear and camping equipment.  “When we are gone we are gone,” said Darren. “Thank you to all our customers for your support throughout the years.”