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>> buying large lots and retailing them, holding things over time, etc are both a worthless drag on the economy... Like grocery stores? Department stores? Cost
by sandworm101 2y ago
>> buying large lots and retailing them, holding things over time, etc are both a worthless drag on the economy...
Like grocery stores? Department stores? Costco? Buying in bulk and selling smaller lots to consumers over time is the definition of retail sales.
If you want to eliminate middlemen and buy only from manufacturers, you better first know/learn chinese, japanese, french, german and spanish. And get a forklift. Most only ship product by the pallet.
- jenscow 2y ago> who do none of the value adding work of buying large lots and retailing the ... I think they're saying that is the value added work, which they don't do.
- sandworm101 2y agoI dont think so. We might not like dealing with them, but even the most horrible of middlemen still provide liquidity to a market. Amazon got its start as a middleman for books, and was hated for what it did to the retail bookshops, but it did inject liquidity to the betterment of consumers.
- idiotsecant 2y agoI think you need to re-read the posts you're replying to. Everyone is specifically saying warehousers add value to the chain. Drop shippers do not.
- wasmitnetzen 2y agoYou might want to re-read that post you quoted, your snipped quote inverts the intended meaning.