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The problem with your comparison to Amazon is that the scale of products offered on Amazon is completely different.

A catalogue system like this is only viable if the number of products is relatively small, as appears to be the case of mcmaster-carr.



McMaster has >700,000 products available on its website so I wouldn’t really call that relatively small.

It is more segmented than what Amazon offers.


Amazon has roughly 350 MM products if you account for third party sellers, so yeah, the scale is massively different.


Maybe a related big difference is that McMaster Carr actually know what they sell?




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