In a B2B catalog containing tens of thousands of SKUs, most prices are never adjusted: they retain the markup set when they were first created. Yet with a gross margin rate of 21.6% in the wholesale sector (INSEE, 2023 data), every price point set below its true value accounts for nearly one-twentieth of the margin. And the recoverable margin isn’t where you’d expect to find it: it’s often hidden in the SKUs that no one compares.
