Outranked, excluded and misfiled look identical from the shelf.
The shelf was read as the catalog
80 glass bottles with a 120 mL ceiling reads as a statement that we have nothing larger. We have 358 plastic containers between 200 and 600 mL.
And the absence of pumps was read the same way
198 closures with no pump suggests no pump exists. There are 121 in the catalog.
Three mechanisms produce the same appearance
A material preference that crowded an alternative out, a closure specification that excluded a category, and an archetype that was simply the wrong one for the spoke. This group is the third.
Which matters because the fixes differ
A preference needs reserved slots. A specification needs a new disposition list. A wrong archetype needs reassigning, and that is one line.
A glass bottle was chosen for a bathroom product
All 80 containers here are glass. Handled wet, by someone holding an animal, on a hard floor.
An 18DIN bottle was chosen
15 of the 80, and this catalog holds no 18DIN closure at all. A sixth of the shelf cannot be closed from it.
A tin was searched for and not found
Two of the six leaves are balms. The aromatherapy group, which shares this archetype and has no balm leaf, carries 10 tins.
And a case was committed to
77 of 80 containers here are full case only, with case packs from 42 to 768. Three can be bought in less than a case.
The capacity ceiling was not checked first
Which is the cheapest check available. Nothing above 120 mL rules out four of the six leaves before any other question is asked.
And the closure count was read as coverage
198 closures against 80 containers sounds generous. 102 of them are the same plain lid and 43 are the same dropper, so the depth is in options for two functions rather than in a range of functions.
Query the catalog, not the shelf
Which is the transferable lesson and it recurs across this library. A curated shelf cannot tell you what it left out.
References
The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. This group's shelf is 80 containers, all of them glass, with a largest capacity of 120 mL and nothing above it; 63 of the 80 are glass boston rounds. Among the 198 closures indexed to the group there is no pump, sprayer, mist sprayer or foamer: 102 are continuous thread polypropylene lids and 43 are dropper assemblies. Catalog-wide on the same day there are 358 plastic containers between 200 and 600 mL and 121 pump, sprayer, mist or foamer closures, none of which is routed to this group. The cause is that this spoke resolves to the pc-essential-oil archetype, the same one the aromatherapy group uses.
The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. 278 rows: 80 containers and 198 closures. 5 to 120 mL with a median of 30; 60 over half an ounce, 30 over an ounce, 16 over 4 oz, and nothing over 120 mL. All 80 are glass. 72 bottles and 8 jars, with no tins and no tubes. 63 glass boston rounds, 4 glass packer bottles, 4 glass low profile jars, 4 glass straight sided jars, 2 glass cylinder bottles, 2 french squares, 1 glass spice bottle. 23 clear, 19 amber, 18 blue, 8 frosted, 5 white, and single counts of purple, red, green and black. Necks: 31 at 20-400, 15 at 18DIN, 9 at 24-400, 5 at 38-400, 4 each at 18-400, 22-400 and 43-400. Closures: 102 continuous thread polypropylene lids, 43 dropper assemblies, 20 metal or aluminum CT caps, 14 phenolic, 5 PS CT lids, 3 dome lids, 3 euro droppers, 2 orifice reducers. Buyability, a snapshot: 60 of 80 available, 19 not, 1 unrecorded; 20 quote only; 77 of 80 full case only, with case packs from 42 to 768 and a median of 264.
The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The aromatherapy group shares the pc-essential-oil archetype with this one and its shelf carries 10 tins, 9 of them steel, along with the catalog's 6 glass roller ball bottles. This group, which has nose balm and paw balm leaves, has 8 jars and no tin at all.
