Observations on sales of Formica in South Carolina.
I needed a 4 ft piece of (post formed) laminate with the Euro edge for the wifes office. I went to the box store Lowes.
“Our distributor only sells 8 ft lengths since you are ordering it” they say. pay for 8 ft , get 8′, even if you only need 4.
so order that. $165.
it comes, oddly its shipped from 100 miles away – not packaged at all – two 4′ pieces loose, no packaging, at Lowes – wonder how long it will take to get it banged up if you were to leave it there a few days?
I had a question about it and called the people who had shipped it to Lowes. they said – we do not know about that – all we do here is receive 12 ft lengths and cut them (so much for value added!.

so you have the mfg, the dist, and lowes all in it.

Wonder for straight forward orders why someone does not sell them on line direct? Pick your pattern, pick edge you want, pick the length, pay for it on line, have it shipped to the house.
Seems it would cut out a lot of people who only take an order (Lowes, and the dist (we only cut it off of 12 ft pieces). Shipping might be more since it would be a dedicated shipment, but then it would be shipped less, Vice from factory to dist, from dist to lowes.
Am I crazy or what???