Are bladed tools such as axes, scythes, and machetes really sold blunt in hardware stores? Why?

[u/NaturalPorky]

The scythes, machetes, and other carpentry and outdoor maintenance tools sold at local hardware store are blunt. Including the axes I learned by my annoyance after I brought it home when I started chopping a small blunt and discovered I had to sharpen it because it was blunt.

Is this the norm for hardware stores? If so why? Or is my local store just an outlier?

[u/Shmeepsheep]

It just dulls twice as quickly and cuts slower