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I 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.



I 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.




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