On this matter I had a discussion the other day with a Digikey  
person. Something that you might not think about. Digikey's (in  
Minnesota) overall warehousing cost has  major factor that Mouser (in  
Texas) never has to consider ... 3-5 months per year they have a  
significant cost to heat their warehouse, there are certain parts  
that don't take kindly to -30F and warehousemen work far more  
efficiently at even +30F and higher.


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On Jan 8, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Rolf wrote:

> A place like Digikey must have considerable warehouse overheads. It's
> handling costs must be substantial. I don't believe for a moment  
> that $8
> Canadian covers the actual cost of  managing and maintaining the
> inventories that they must do in order to get next-business-day
> turnaround on most of their stock.

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