"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in
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John Williamson wrote:
What the resistor costs them to buy is irrelevant, een if
the resistor
costs them a fraction of a penny. What they offer is the
convenience of
being able to drop in to the store and pick one up,
rather than wait up
to a week for one to be delivered. It also costs them *at
least* 20p in
wages to handle the order, assuming they pay the legal
minimum wage, and
their overheads are *much* higher than somebody with a
few racks of
shelving in a warehouse in an industrial estate
somewhere.

Not only that, you can go in to Maplin and buy and pay
for a single
item, as there is no minimum order and no delivery
charge, whereas most
of the online suppliers either have a minimum order or
charge a few
pounds for delivery.

That would be fine if every shop stocked the full range of
resistors. But
they don't. And their online price is the same.

They seem to be simply clearing out existing stocks of
such things -
without clearance prices.

I used to buy a lot from Maplin. Enjoyed the trip to my
local shop and
having a browse. Not any more. They decided they could
make more money by
changing their direction. But then so many others sell
what they went into
- and often at better prices.

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