Amazon doesn't get their books by having employees drive to Barnes & Noble stores to purchase books at retail prices. Amazon buys from the same distributors/pub

Amazon doesn't get their books by having employees drive to Barnes & Noble stores to purchase books at retail prices. Amazon buys from the same distributors/publishers that B&N uses. If B&N goes out of business because everybody buys from Amazon, the distributors/publishers don't care; they still get the business just from a different customer. Rewinery is the same with respect to mom & pop shops. They both order from the same distributors by the caseload and pay wholesale prices. Those cases of wine get delivered to each of them by the distributor and they, in turn, each maintain their own inventory, whether on luxury handcarved hardwood shelving in a mom and pop's retail store or scattered on concrete floors in a warehouse for delivery to the consumer by truck. The distributors don't care if the mom & pop goes out of business because their other customer, Rewinery, is ordering just as much.