In our culture, it is always assumed that buying directly from the source is the most cost-effective way to buy products. This comes from the move away from a traditional tiered “Manufacturer to Distributor to Store to Customer” model that has largely remained intact...
Almost every business that makes something, or distributes something has a shipping department that is responsible to ship that “thing”. Many of those shipping departments are physically located out by the shipping docks and they do a great job arranging the outbound...