But we are talking about the traders both wholesale distributors and retailers.
Initially, the manufacturers themselves had their own consumer outlets. Of course, the need to expand the markets delegated part of the capital to wholesale distribution functions, and as the merchandise approaches the consumer that distributive function creates value, and in this sense wholesalers and retailers pass the test.
However, both the wholesaler and the retailer become capitalists in their corresponding scale. But, there is a marked difference between a wholesaler and a retailer: that one is always far from the final consumer, no social relationship with neighbors, with the friends of their children, with those neighbors with whom their own family grew, and this one it is the case of the retailers.
It is not understood to what extent this retailer is depersonalized before his neighbors, before the friends of his children and grandchildren, to the point that with a blatant coldness he gets a merchant, to live of those neighbors, to speculate, to exploit them beautifully .
It is that taking a merchandise from the inventory and putting it on the counter of your store does not mark any creative effort of value.
These same functions are performed daily by each neighbor of that bodeguero when he informs the time to whom he asks it, to whom he helps with the overload when he has to go by the same route to his work or to carry out any family diligence.
Wholesalers could become direct retailers; It would suffice to provide the necessary transportation and personnel to guarantee the timely delivery of orders from that immense market that would open them immediately.
Take the example of large supermarkets, the fate of wholesalers with retail functions.
Take into account that the smaller the capital employed in the distribution the greater the avidity of easy enrichment that is open to these tremendous speculators and miserable "neighbors" stuck to merchants.
The Bible tells us that Jesus took them from the doors of the churches in a clean sweep.