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Re:The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet by kspacewalk2 on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @11:40AM (#43773399)
On a side note, McMaster.com is the very best online shopping site I've ever visited or used. It's blazing fast (a trick based on pre-fetching that you can observe in all its glory in the developer view of your favourite browser), it's logical, uncluttered - perfect.
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Re:The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet by silon42 on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @12:33PM (#43773922)
We need a Europe version of that.
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Re:The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet by 0_____0 on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @01:34PM (#43774569)
This efficiency extends to their customer support ops as well. I ordered the wrong size of a bin, sent a message in their chat saying I wanted to return the bins and get the ### SKU instead, and without any further input from me, there were new bins delivered 2 days later.

They seem to have the assumption that their customers are actually trying to get some shit done.

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Re:The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet by GIFtheory on Thursday April 24, 2025 @10:26PM (#43789580)
This 100%. McMaster quietly perfected e-commerce at some point, and because we’re live in a fallen world, nobody decided to follow their lead. If only we could convince McMaster to sell toilet paper and cereal…
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Re:The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet by quickthrowman on Friday April 25, 2025 @06:33PM (#43799104)
McMaster is expensive for certain things but if you need something very specific next day, they’re invaluable.
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