Re: Maplin stores
If the internet arm of Maplin is to keep going it will need a new website. Other retailers can be almost as bad, so google is the best way to navigate their site. Why is it that on many sites 1k and 1k2 resistors are separate pages, rather than a menu selection on one page? It suggests they bought a cheap off-the-shelf retail website package where every item is assumed to be unrelated to any other item. Simple for the computer programmer to bash out some SQL, but bad for the poor customer.
My next gripe is why I should have to search carefully through datasheets to discover how this capacitor at 50p differs from that capacitor at 45p (same dielectric, same ratings, similar construction, in some cases same maker). Why doesn't the catalogue tell me, at least in outline?
This is not entirely off-topic, as retailer survival depends on things like this.
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