[jenscow]

> who do none of the value adding work of buying large lots and retailing the ...

I think they're saying that is the value added work, which they don't do.

[sandworm101]

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.

[idiotsecant]

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.