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Originally Posted by triumphleroy
Graingers was wholesale in the not too long ago but have become Retail Plus as of late, and as you say folks are finding out the hard way about their change.
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Grainger has always been higher than wholesale pricing, except to high-volume customers, where their discounts range from 10% to 50% or more, depending on annual purchasing volume.
If you're a low volume account or a walk-in cash customer (they'll sell to anyone now), you get catalog list prices and no discount.
There are two advantages to having a Grainger account, in spite of their usual pricing:
1. If you need something "right now, this minute" that you won't be able to find at a hardware store or home improvement center, and are close enough to a Grainger store to do a will-call order. This mostly applies to service or manufacturing businesses, where time is of the essence.
2. If you want to actually see an item before buying, instead of buying sight-unseen online or mail order.