On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 20:19:17 -0800 (PST), bob haller
wrote:

grainger USED sell only to businesses, but recently i was in a different grainger and they asked if I was a business account. mine is

they closed my local branch,

I was busy or would of asked them if they no longer required being a business to buy there.

I have the impression they don't.

One of the things wholesale places hate most is having to answer
questions, and take returns that pros wouldn't return. If you can
somehow give a wholesale place the impression you won't do either of
these things, they might sell to you.

So people should look online, figure out what they want, order it, and
if they go pick it up, don't ask a whole bunch of stupid questions, or
even non-stupid ones.

With grainger, I had a friend with a business who let me use the
business account to order. Then I paid cash when I picked it up, or I
charged it on my own card. She left and someone in the family
started running it. I tried to do the same thing, but before I knew
it, it seemed like it was being billed to the business. I was able to
pay after all, but I didnt' even want the business to know what I'd
done, for fear of making hard feelings between my friend and the new
person.

It seems I have logins for both her business account and my own
account, though I don't remember creating the second one.

a word to the wise about grainger.

they own a onlline company called zoro. the packaging part numbers and merchandise are identical. but the pices are dramatically better

Thanks a lot.

Sounds like Warshawsky and JCWhitney. I think you had to go to the
store to get Warshawsky prices.