Nothing here is a recommendation dressed up as a shelf. The catalog takes everything both labels currently sell and applies four rules to it. The rules are dull on purpose — that is what makes the list comparable.
1. It has to be buyable today
Every piece is checked against the live retail listing before the site is rebuilt. If the listing has gone, or the piece shows as unavailable, it does not get a page. This is the rule that removes the most items: a party range is seasonal, and a Christmas print that sold through in December is gone until the following autumn. A count of units left is never printed here — it is out of date within hours of being copied.
2. The name has to say what the thing is
Listing names are written for search engines. They begin with the label, repeat the color twice, carry an internal code and often end mid-bracket. We cut them back to format, color and count — the three things you compare when you are buying — and keep the full original name in the specification table on every page, so you can match what you see here against what you will see at the checkout.
3. A fact needs a number or a material
Roughly three quarters of the bullet points on a party listing are advertising. Filtering them by how often they appear does not work: napkins measure 6.5 inches folded turns up on sixteen listings and is still a fact, while perfect for any event turns up on twenty-eight and never becomes one. So the test is not frequency but substance. A sentence stays if it carries a measurement with a unit, a count, or a material named outright. Everything else goes.
4. Pack size comes from the pack
The retailer’s unit-count field is not reliable across formats: for napkins it is the number of napkins, for table covers it is sometimes the number of covers and sometimes the number of packs. We read the count off the pack description instead. Where there is no count, the page says nothing rather than guessing.
Ratings
Star ratings are printed only together with the number of ratings behind them, and never converted into a ranking. Party tableware sells in small numbers per article, so perfect scores from three or four buyers are common and mean very little. Where a piece has no rating at all the page simply does not show one — an empty star row would suggest a bad score rather than no score.
What the rules do not do
They do not rank. Two napkins of the same weight in two colors are the same napkin, and no honest catalog can tell you that one of them is better. Where there is an opinion — that a beverage napkin is the safer single purchase, that two overlapped covers beat one oversized one — it is written out as an opinion in the text, not baked into an order of results.