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    A Walk Through the 2018 Grainger Show

    Feb. 16, 2018
    Grainger salespeople invited thousands of customers to the 2018 Grainger Show to work with them and folks from more than 700 suppliers on their specific applications.

    The 2018 Grainger Show offered a good overview of the company's core strategic focus and marketing strategies. The company highlighted its broad package of MRO supplies for the safety market, its disaster recovery efforts in the recent hurricanes and fires, its growing emphasis on digital commerce, and the new inventory management services that are part of its Keepstock program for end users.

    About the Author

    Jim Lucy | Editor-in-Chief of Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing

    Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 40 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter, and as a contributing writer for EC&M magazine During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement.

    Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling  and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted with his wife and three sons in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 30 years.