They should've had a contest for the new logo design, prizes for the top 10 or so. Just to have fun with customers, even if they all get rejected/overruled in the end. I have seen some companies do this and it was better than using graphics arts professionals that are clueless about the company to come up funky text. The mid-80's logo was exciting lol.
In the new very big warehouse, where are the staff facilities, lunch room, games room, place to sit down for a while?
The loading bays, and I've worked in some, right next to the boxing conveyors... get freezing cold and dry in winter, ESD central.
Is there more to life than Amazon-tier mega-distribution?
Do they have any giveaways? Cheeseball coffee cup? Advertise on EEVblog? Take the heat for their mediocre website?
why waste space in the warehouse on through-hole parts of few is buying them, and they just expire? [...]
It's not about the warehouse size, this is cave man gronk has big warehouse lol.
As Ron Stordahl stated, he found the engineers doing DIY hobby stuff at home, will at work spec Digi-Key part numbers in BoM's, so they ended up getting their foot in the door for big orders, larger builds.
I'd looked for through-hole 7-seg LEDs and DIP-16 sockets for repairs, pretty much gone now.
And you can tell Digi-Key has stale parts, no surplus section (aside from semi's to Rochester), no blowout pricing deals, no bait and loss leader products that I can see.
[...] if they can't get a date or stock from the manufacturer how should they give you a date or sell any?
Other distributors not only had stock of many items, but also give order dates so I can at least gauge when stock might be available. Digi-Key gives nothing. They used to give dates. Going there to design in, is no longer possible as far as the part's lifecycle or if it's been on order for months etc. because it's masked.