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Same here Roger, used to have a lot of fun doing that but I never pushed it, didn't want to embarrass them too much, I was just having fun.RS was a bit like going to 7-Eleven for a quart of milk or some munchies. I want/need it NOW and I'll pay a bit more for the convenience (and grouse about it for years afterward), but I'm not going to do my weekly shopping there, but I might buy a hot dog or Slurpee, too.
I miss the convenience of RS and my local store was pretty decent for many years until, Chick, the long time manager, retired. If I needed a 1000k resistor or some 22mfd capacitators in a rush, I could find them (by myself, of course) in that mysterious section of in the back corner of the store.
Sometimes it was even amusing to toy with the clueless sales guys about their "free" cell phones or ask innocent questions about scanners or CB's just to see the depth of their inept deceptions.
Absolute convenience, you're in the middle of a project of some type and you realize you need XY or Z and 15 minutes later you were back at the project with the part you needed.
Nowhere, can you do that now, all of the brick and mortar Ham stores, radio shops, cb shops or just an electronic store are all gone.