[thoraway1010]

Retail is crazy miserable for the person actually MAKING the product.

Getting INTO stores is hard. The store can dump product back onto you - so they have no risk. The price on shelf has NOTHING to do with what you get, if you are small you are already going through some intermediaries. Ie, person making product, packing, shipping to distributor (some make you pay cost to get it to them), then distribution costs then retailer markups then return handling yadda yadda. THEN retailers will ask you to run promos and give them discounts or they will drop you.

3%? EVERYONE would pay that. In retail I'd say person making product gets maybe 20%? 80% is taken by others?