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Because youre at the mercy of the distributors forcing you to lower prices, especially with the monopsony that exists in the US. Because you are at the mercy of your manufacturers increasing prices especially during a supply chain foul up during and after the pandemic which would affect you significantly more considering how big and heavy your product is.

There’s a lot of reasons a company selling a lot of product can still go under in todays market.



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