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These are not "middle men". Many of them are the sales people of the manufacturers themselves. Reliance will hold down prices only till they receive a huge con
by pkphilip 5y ago
These are not "middle men". Many of them are the sales people of the manufacturers themselves.
Reliance will hold down prices only till they receive a huge consolidation of sales and then you can expect the prices to jump.
- kamaal 5y ago>>Reliance will hold down prices only till they receive a huge consolidation of sales and then you can expect the prices to jump. Luddites have been pushing this narrative for anti-modernism for ages now, but it just doesn't come to pass. It's for a simple reason, capitalism wants you to buy more and therefore has it in its interests to sell you things for cheap. Its just that the middle men have it easy, there is very little productive effort involved in buying things from X and selling to Y on K% profit, when compared to working in a factory. This is the real issue. People want it easy.
- thewhitetulip 5y agoReliance did the exact same thing with Jio First it was free Then it was nominal Then every other month rates rose.. and now everyone is raising rates
- oldsecondhand 5y agoIf it weren't true, there wouldn't be laws against predatory pricing.
- skinnymuch 5y ago5 or 10 years ago, a ton of deals would be at Amazon. Now it has dropped a lot. I have friends buying from Amazon for Black Friday when the deals at other stores are generally better. They are used to Amazon now.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI am not sure what the point is here. Your friends have freedom and ability to choose to buy from multiple retailers, Amazon has freedom to choose its selling price, resellers on Amazon have freedom to choose their price, and competitors to Amazon have the freedom to choose their price. Who is the harmed party?
- thewhitetulip 5y agoAmazon has a massive warchest which they used over decades to undercut their competitors. Just like Uber does to theirs. Yes, technically nothing apart from Billion dollars is stopping amazon's competition to beat amazon in their own game. You gotta a billion dollars I can borrow?
- lotsofpulp 5y agoUndercut means sell at a loss. Has Amazon been selling at a loss, anymore than Walmart/Target/Home Depot/etc?
- thewhitetulip 5y agoAmazon/walmart/target are one and the same.
- pkphilip 5y agoI don't think people understand the complexity of the supply chain. If it were possible for the manufacturers to directly sell to retail customers, they would be more than happy to cut off distributors and pocket that additional margin for themselves. For a manufacturer to handle returns, expired products etc from retail customers or even retail outlets while having a manufacturing base in a different city/town is a huge headache. Many products (example: dairy and other perishables) require daily deliveries to retail outlets from manufacturers. Try doing this without a distributor arrangement.