dpb wrote:
Caesar Romano wrote:
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 12:44:27 -0800 (PST), N8N
wrote Re New Grainger catalog:

when buying
stuff for personal use from Grainger, because the first thing they ask
is "who do you work for?"

Yeah, I don't like that, so I stopped buying from them.

Well, that's their intent. They're set up wholesalers and really just
don't want retail business (which translates to generally small, random
orders).

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Yesterday I received my Mouser electronics catalog. Almost the size of
Grainger, just bigger like a phone book, and they send 3 or 4 catalogs a
year! They take single item orders, it could be 10 cents, and ship it
very cheap USPS. No service charge. How do they do it? Their
warehouse is all run by computers and robotics. There is a very good
chance that most anything you buy from them has never yet been touched
by a human. No one even touches the packages until they are picked up.

I haven't been out all day (sick with a cold), maybe the Grainger
catalog came today? I'd better check before tomorrows mail comes!