whisky-dave wrote:
I'd heard (from a rep) that they'd brought rapid electronics to get in to the UK martket as it was cheaper option.

I quite like Rapid. However I do wish they wouldn't chase the 'Education'
market so much (not particularly interested in 'Emotions and Feelings Cubes'
for PSHE lessons).

Often when I use them I can only get a fraction of what I actually want,
which makes it barely worth the time to check up. It only really makes
sense for bulk orders.

They've also been seduced into importing the whole Toolbase (?) catalogue
(Draper, Silverline etc) but they don't actually stock most of it - there's
loads of stuff showing (139 types of circlip pliers) but when you go to look
it up they're either on 5-7 days or 1-3 weeks. Rapid it ain't.

Theo