Re: You cant have it both ways
No, Maplin virtually disappeared in the Nineties because you can't have a shop selling 50p items which have to be collected and bagged by a nontechnical assistant. Maplin'said attitude to the component section was it was a necessary evil.
You simply don't make a long lasting profit from this stuff.
If it hadn't branched out into toys. It would have evaporated decades ago.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
