They need a kick up the arse...
I like Farnell, but I do wonder how they stay afloat. These days they are web based and have a massive range but trying to find stuff on the website is a complete nightmare as their search engine is stuck in the '80s and there is so much irrelevant junk and discontinued product in the search results (if any results are returned at all) that I often don't have the time to sift through it all and end up going to RS in stead. Oh and the product tagging seems to have been done by Golgafrinchan Telephone Sanitisers,definitely not by anyone familiar with electronics or associated disciplines.
And then there are the weekly full colour mini-catalogues that cross my desk on the way to the bin.
No doubt the Swiss and the septics have noticed this too and spotted easy ways to increase turnover and cut costs that seem to have eluded Farnell's own senior management. Although as Sir Alien has pointed out the septics probably have a quite different agenda.