[mauvehaus]

It's because they'll have your order at your door next day for an extremely reasonable cost of shipping. Nobody excels at pick, pack, and ship like McMaster-Carr.

Where they can be a little tough is searching for things you don't know the exact name for. I needed screws that have a smooth section to run through a bushing with a fairly tight tolerance. You know: turns freely but doesn't rattle. I spent hours looking until I finally found what I was looking for (shoulder screws).

[VBprogrammer]

I hate to mention it but this would be a killer feature of a ChatGPT like search. Imagine being able to describe something in such vague terms and get a good answer.

[BenjiWiebe]

You shouldn't hate to mention it. I'm somewhat anti-GPT (or maybe anti-AI in general) but this would actually be a really good use case.