Umm... Amazon and Alibaba ship actual things, and how they improve the situation is by economies of scale such that the profit they make is less than the ineffi

Umm... Amazon and Alibaba ship actual things, and how they improve the situation is by economies of scale such that the profit they make is less than the inefficiencies they eliminate. Even then many people would rather go to the mall and pay for local retail space in order to be able to inspect the goods before purchase. I fail to see how ethereum will make the distribution of goods anymore efficient. 'middle man' is just hand wavy economic ignorance.