Bruce MacDonald on Nostr: Every time I nose around the Digi-Key website I'm nonplussed by the scope of the ...
Every time I nose around the Digi-Key website I'm nonplussed by the scope of the operation up there in Thief River Falls MN.
As John Reinan wrote in the Minneapolis paper in 2018,
"If you were going to pick a spot to locate a worldwide shipping company, this wouldn’t be it.
"His brainstorm was selling parts in any quantity, no matter how small. Other suppliers sold only in bulk. But if you needed a single transistor or capacitor, [founder Ron] Stordahl would ship it."
https://www.startribune.com/from-a-box-of-radio-parts-digi-key-grew-into-a-2-3-billion-anchor-of-nw-minnesota-s-economy/477461533/
As John Reinan wrote in the Minneapolis paper in 2018,
"If you were going to pick a spot to locate a worldwide shipping company, this wouldn’t be it.
"His brainstorm was selling parts in any quantity, no matter how small. Other suppliers sold only in bulk. But if you needed a single transistor or capacitor, [founder Ron] Stordahl would ship it."
https://www.startribune.com/from-a-box-of-radio-parts-digi-key-grew-into-a-2-3-billion-anchor-of-nw-minnesota-s-economy/477461533/