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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 5608114" data-attributes="member: 56189">It's kinda sad how badly these companies have small businesses over a barrel like they do. They charge idiotic rates which is why you get such high prices on soft-drinks in shops like this and then have the support of government to do it.Of course, you can go a generic brand that doesn't have a distribution channel and sales reps, like Coke or Pepsi do, but then nobody buys them because they're not Coke or Pepsi.Quite frankly it's the same for every distributor model. Small business gets shafted on everything. The greed of distributors is ironic in it's idiocy. Small businesses form most of their revenue streams, and yet they treat them like crap and give all the best deals to the big guns who order in bulk.This is why franchises work. Franchises are universally a complete rip-off where the small business owner gets screwed in all sorts of interesting ways. But at least they have buying power, which the idiotic distributors respect. If they had any sense, they'd be actively supporting small businesses instead of trying to wring every little penny from them.A better idea is to try and get into a shop alliance. Find similar businesses in the local area or even state and see if they're in a shop alliance. Shop alliances work in a similar way to a franchise in the sense that you buy as one entity and therefore get bulk discounts, but other than that, the shops aren't affiliated in any other way.</blockquote>

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