michael adams wrote
whisky-dave wrote

I was ordering some MC3008 's and RS think drill bits are frequently
ordered with them, Weird.

anyone else noticed any strange bought together items.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4cpq58f060...54.21.png?dl=0

That will probably be because an inventory code of one of those items is
similar or identical to the inventory code of an item which it would
actually have matched,

Doing it by inventory code is never going to work.

They arent telling you who bought a similar item INSTEAD.

Inventory codes may or not be assigned sequentially as new items are added
to the stock

The customer buys on the description or product code, not the inventory
code so any discrepancy should show up prior to the sale or despatch,

The "likes" will be determined solely by the inventory codes of pairs of
items bought previously, not by the product descriptions or codes as the
latter are determined by manufacturers and may come in different formats.

**** all likes on retail store sites.

What they actually list is what else customers who
bought that item also bought close in time from them.

Whereas RS can use whatever format they like for their inventory code for
their internal operations which among
other things makes generating likes easier.

It has nothing to do with inventory codes or likes.