Originally Posted By: SilverC6
I don't understand why EOM doesn't distribute that product widely in the USA.
Maybe they feel Delvac 1300 Super 15W-40 is good enough.
That, and TDT is certainly "good enough," too, assuming the price is sensible. Up here, TDT is only a consumer product. The distributor won't even sell it to the general public. So, if Walmart is selling TDT at a sensible price, great. The $50 neighborhood it calls for up here isn't sensible, however.
Many years ago, for various reasons, Shell cut back its distributor network in western Canada. Of course, they had the retail availability to negate any concerns. When CT and WM went to "pillage and plunder" pricing, the strange distributor network can be problematic.
If I'm paying about $25 a jug for Delvac 1 ESP 5w-40, you can just imagine what Walmart's markup is on a $50 jug of TDT, or CT's markup for that matter (which is even a bit more). I'm lucky because I'm used to buying stuff from a distributor. Lots of people haven't even considered it.