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Re: how come a company founded over 100 years ago has the fastest site

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Because they make money from being the best place to buy the kind of stuff they sell, rather than from trapping enormous numbers of people into viewing enormous numbers of advertisements.

Mcmaster doesn't have the best prices, they don't have every part imaginable. Their value-add is the shopping experience, so it's unsurprising that they do it very well.

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