A Day in the Life of Digi-Key Slideshow

[chicken]

http://spectrum.ieee.org/slideshow/semiconductors/devices/slideshow-a-day-in-the-life-of-digikey
..and I always imagined rows and rows of robots cutting tapes and pick&placing tiny QFNs into foam-padded boxes.

[Fsck]

now I feel bad ordering singles of hundreds of items

[scientist]

now I feel bad ordering singles of hundreds of items

Why would you do that?

[EEVblog]

now I feel bad ordering singles of hundreds of items

It keeps thousands in that small town employed!

[Bored@Work]

I was expecting robo-pickers, zipping through deserted high bay warehouses, no human eye ever seeing inside the box of a shipment.

Wikipedia says Thief River Falls has a population of 8573 in a county with a population of 13930. A company with 2600 employees is no small fry in such an area.