This week I purchased 4 sheets of 1/4” pre finished birch plywood from a local supplier for $19.28 a sheet. Orange box sells a 1/4 purebond unfinished birch for$49.68. The 1/4 inch Sandply is $29 or should I say 1/5 inch is not comparable because of the thin veneer and it is not birch. If you look at the other blue box stores wood the prices are identical.
In fact, they are all using web scraping for pricing their products. Even the jungle prices are identical for many tools.
Are these monopolistic collusion pricing policies or modern day capitalism?