Interesting that price points and lumber came up in the same thread.
A decade or so ago when we were framing up our house in Michigan, we had most lumber and trusses delivered by one of the big box DIY stores. My FIL would order the framing lumber when it was on sale. Well the crap we got was almost unworkable, every piece was warped or bowed and it made for a real SOB to get the walls looking straight.
One weekend we were a pallet short, so I drove up to a lumber mill in Iron Mountain and got a pallet of studs. Sure it cost about $30 more, but every board was straight and perfect. That $30 difference made a huge difference in our productivity, regardless of how much my FIL bitched about the price.