discontinued-sweep: document york excluded-739 follow-up path (nopCommerce search caveat)

6c70b553970b5f72ec73b96f635bd4025e124b44 · 2026-07-02 11:10:06 -0700 · Steve Abrams

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Author: Steve Abrams <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 2 11:10:06 2026 -0700

    discontinued-sweep: document york excluded-739 follow-up path (nopCommerce search caveat)
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@@ -54,3 +54,13 @@ fresh output files (e.g. suffix the month into --out).
 - Brewster/York never front-facing; this tooling never edits vendor names.
 - FLAGGING ONLY. Archive/unpublish + bulk metafield --apply = GATED (pending-approval memo).
 - No Shopify product creation. Order-min metafields (DWTT/AF min2/step2) untouched.
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+## Follow-up: the 739 excluded York rows (no staging URL)
+Their mfr_skus appear in none of york_catalog / brewster_york_master / york_contract_catalog,
+so no public URL exists to probe. Path to close the gap: yorkwallcoverings.com is nopCommerce
+with SevenSpikes InstantSearch — the /search?q=<sku> page is JS-assembled and the obvious
+autocomplete endpoints return empty to plain curl, so per-SKU resolution needs a headless
+session (or the yorkwall.com trade portal via openclaw — metered). Caveat: discontinued
+products appear to drop out of the search index entirely, so "no search result" conflates
+discontinued with never-indexed — search absence alone must NOT flag; it can only locate
+URLs for a page-level probe. None of the 739 are flagged today (documented gap, fail-closed).

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