The median case is 288 jars
On this page11
Container case packs run from 12 to 6,370
With a median of 288. So the typical row on this shelf is sold by the case of a few hundred, not by the piece.
The distribution is tighter than the range suggests
167 of the 250 containers that record a case pack fall between 101 and 500. 54 are above 500. 23 sit between 25 and 100. Only 6 of 251 come in a case of 24 or fewer.
So the small case is the exception, not the entry point
Six rows out of two hundred and fifty one. Anyone expecting a shelf of single jars is looking at a different kind of supplier.
The closure side is more extreme
Closure case packs run from 200 to 12,500 with a median of 970, and 252 of the 286 that record one are above 500. There is no closure anywhere on this shelf in a case smaller than 200.
Which means the lid, not the jar, sets the minimum order
A buyer who finds a 180 mL jar in a case of 48 still needs a lid for it, and the lid arrives 200 at a time at the very best. The cheaper component is the one that forces the quantity.
Sixty five containers are full case only
Against 11 of 288 closures. So on the container side a quarter of the shelf cannot be broken at all, and on the closure side almost all of it can be, which partly offsets the previous paragraph.
Unit prices are low, and that is the other half of the picture
Containers run 21 cents to $7.05 with a median of 90.5 cents. Closures run 5 cents to $4.45 with a median of 39 cents. A case of 288 jars at the median is a few hundred dollars, not a few thousand.
Availability is a snapshot and not a promise
159 of 251 containers and 213 of 288 closures were marked available when this was measured. That number moves, and the page records when it was taken rather than implying it still holds.
The exemption in the rule above names this kind of buyer
Care information need not be provided with products sold to institutional buyers for commercial use. Entirely unrelated in purpose, but the same distinction: there is a buyer who buys by the case and a buyer who buys one, and federal rules sometimes treat them differently.
For this shelf the practical consequence is a planning one
The decision is not which jar. It is how many of one jar, because that is the unit on offer, and a sorted set of small parts usually wants several identical jars anyway.