No it's not. It's to maximize profit. There isn't any "system" either, that's just the old model for sales....before there was a cheap and available method like the internet.
When Sears started selling through catalogs at the end of the 19th century, was that some sort of end run around the "retail system", whatever that might be??
Protectionist crap. It's like here in California where dealers selling the same brands are restricted from being too close to each other: wouldn't want to let a little competition help the consumer, now would we?
if this was true, they’d outlaw private sales, for our “protection”.