On 2020-04-09, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 09/04/2020 12:35, Adam Funk wrote:
On 2020-04-09, Steve Walker wrote:

On 09/04/2020 12:03, Peter Parry wrote:

Electronics Weekly has a report of the re launch of Maplin Electronics
(www.maplin.co.uk) as an on-line retailer

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/ne...duino-2020-03/

They'll have to make a good job of it and keep the prices down too. When
Maplin had become far more expensive than RS and never had more than a
few of each item in stock, it had clearly lost its way.

Mail order it would have to compete with RS, Farnell (plus their CPC
arm), Jaycar, Amazon and Ebay - and, for me at least, RS and CPC have
the advantage of trade counters for urgent purchases and Amazon has very
quick deliveries.

Also Pimoroni for fun stuff & kits, & AliExpress for cheap but not at
all urgent components.

Rapid electronics

Interesting -- thanks for the tip. (I see they also sell lab
glassware & a bunch of other non-electronic stuff.)