
Why so many similar tools?
I recently got a 20V grass trimmer and a 20V leaf blower.
Now I see that my Lidl soon will have a very similar grass trimmer but it’s not the same, this one has thread on only one side (pictured) while the one I got has on both sides, other than that they look identical. And it’s 2€ cheaper. And they will also sell a “multi blower” that looks very similar to the leaf blower I got but it has multiple attachments. Same price.
I’ve seen other similar examples of several tools that are very similar.
My question is: why do they sell so many tools that are almost identical? It must be more expensive to have so many variants of a tool, than to stick to just one?