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    Grainger to accept credit cards on site

    Jan. 1, 2003
    W.W. Grainger Inc., Lincolnshire, Ill., now accepts Visa, MasterCard or American Express for payment on its web site, www.grainger.com. "In the MRO industry,

    W.W. Grainger Inc., Lincolnshire, Ill., now accepts Visa, MasterCard or American Express for payment on its web site, www.grainger.com. "In the MRO industry, 95% of purchasing transactions are completed using open accounts. Although consumer catalog sites accept credit cards for payment, open accounts have always been standard in our industry," said Daniel Hamburger, vice president and general manager, Internet commerce, for Grainger.

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    Doug Chandler | Senior Staff Writer

    Doug has been reporting and writing on the electrical industry for Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing since 1992 and still finds the industry’s evolution and the characters who inhabit its companies endlessly fascinating. That was true even before e-commerce, LED lighting and distributed generation began to disrupt so many of the electrical industry’s traditional practices.

    Doug earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Kansas after spending a few years in KU’s William Allen White School of Journalism, then deciding he absolutely did not want to be a journalist. In the company of his wife, two kids, two dogs and two cats, he spends a lot of time in the garden and the kitchen – growing food, cooking, brewing beer – and helping to run the family coffee shop.

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