On Sat, 10 Feb 07 19:49:37 GMT, dmc wrote:


Had an hour to kill today waiting for my car to be finished so popped into
the Screwfix trade counter that has just (yesterday) opened in Canterbury.

As they had 10% off everything and free burgers and hot dogs it was rather
busy (unsurprisingly) but while I was there I thought I'd stock up on some
filler I've been meaning to order for age and pickup some more screws but
they had none of the filler and and were also out of stock on the screws.

A freind went in later to get a load of dry lining boxes and again, they
had none in stock.

Is this common at the trade counters (in which case I'll carry on ordering
online) or is this just the opening weekend offer rush?

My somewhat limited experience: a few visits to the outlet in Reading,
is that they don't stock everything. I've only gone to the outlet when
I wanted a few things and couldn't make an order up to the free delivery
value _and_ when I was due to be in reading anyway.
So when I've bought stuff from the outlet, it's been in small quantites
and for only a few items. I think on 2/3rds of my visits I've not got
a full order - something's been missing.

Pete

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