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Theo writes:
Andrew Gabriel wrote:
b) they've moved a load of their component drawers into the shop,
with a "buy the whole drawer set including components for £100".
However, they happened to still have both the parts I wanted in
drawers still behind the counter, and reduced to 12p each so I
took the two of each they had.

Are those the chests of about a dozen drawers, each about 3" high?
Kind of Snap-On style (but white)?

I hadn't really been paying attention but ours seems to have lost the
component counter some time in the last 15 years, meaning the entire
components stock is held in two of those.

Or does your still have a counter with a zillion staff-only drawers behind
it, and you mean one unit of those?

These were behind the component counter. There are still some there,
but others are now in the shop "buy the whole drawer unit and what's
in it." They have listed what's in it, but as a bundle where you
might use 1% of the contents, they were way too expensive. If they
had been Racco Professional drawer units, I would have bought partly
for those (I use them a lot at home), but they weren't - I didn't
recognise the style.

The Reading branch had already moved those components into large
drawer units in the store so you didn't need to ask staff (a bit
like Tandy/RadioShack used to do).

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