Most of these places have vendor portals so you can see individual pricing, you can also call, some places also sell to general public, but their pricing is based off of market conditions, so a week after the catalog is out, a large portion is outdated. General public don’t have accounts and the vast majority aren’t going to sign up for one off faucet cartridge either.

Do you think it would work for Walmart to price milk at one price the entire year for an example?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think you missed this part:

It's like the sears catalog on the intertubes

You know, where you can edit things quickly, or even have the price update automatically as your costs change.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

So the issue being, everyone has their own unique pricing, and here’s the real reason, most people are friggen stupid. The customer will inevitably be logged out, and then when viewing the website get enraged when the pricing jumps 15% overnight. So when it defaults to “call or login for pricing” the customer should realize they are logged out, and they also aren’t seeing incorrect pricing leading them to go elsewhere.

People are stupid, keep this in mind when you think of why something is probably done.