......people in this country have been conditioned both by the government and by their own ignorance aqnd acceptance of what appears to be normal as in 'the tooth fairy brings it'. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
The thing I can't get a handle on and puzzles my puzzler is how Hodgdon or Federal or for that matter RCBS (Federal and RCBS and Hodgon are all, by the way, the same company, determins the distribution of goods to wholesalers and eventually retail outlets.
Anywhere you purchase propellants, those propellants are purchased by the retailer from a distributor who, in turn, represents the manufacdturer or in the case of Hodgon, their sole US Importer.
I keep wondering fruitlessly, how the distribution is managed. It puzzles me. It also puzzles me how much prices vary from one retailer to another.
I realize there is a substantial markup on propellants and everything else firearm related except the firearms themselves (because that comes under federal law that no retailer can sell below a 10% markup over distributor to retailer cost and guns are still very competitve in pricing.
I figure the markup on propellants to be in the 35% bracket, that is a 35% across the board markup between the distributors shelf and the retailers shelf, but that don't explain the wide price fluctuation and example is Bruno at almsot 35 bucks for a 1 pound bottle of H whatever and Natchezz at $22.50 for the same exact bottle. That don't jibe with me at all.
