Because small chocolate manufacturers don’t have the scale to supply massive distribution companies. An little retail gas stations don’t have any incentive to g

Because small chocolate manufacturers don’t have the scale to supply massive distribution companies. An little retail gas stations don’t have any incentive to go make deals with boutique manufacturers. That would be madness for a gas station owner to go to individual manufacturers for specific items. And the manufacturers would hate it. Dealing with hundreds of thousands of small orders would be a logistical pain. That’s the reason their is a distributor layer for those sorts of products. If customers at gas stations started demanding Valrhona chocolate, they’d ask their distributors to start getting it. I’d buy it, but most people at gas stations aren’t going to care about a $10 chocolate bar.