[Spktyr]

To be fair, the warehouse stores like Costco and Sam’s Club are actually set up to do that and market to business specifically to do that. If you look, both those companies were originally opened to sell to *businesses* and consumers were an afterthought.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

But resale, outside of the contractual chain? The problem is that they bypass contracting with and buying direct from manufacturers, which gets them into legal trouble. I know guys from Dr. Pepper and other suppliers that would routinely bust those places for such end-run activity. No, they're shady.