the.com/distributor
The middleman who makes sure your product and someone else's shelf fall in love.
means A person or company that buys goods in bulk and channels them onward to retailers, dealers, or customers, acting as the link between maker and market.
from Traces back to Latin distribuere — dis- ('apart') plus tribuere ('to allot, assign'), the same tribuere that gives us 'tribute' and 'contribute.' The Romans used it for divvying things up among people; English borrowed 'distribute' in that same spirit by the late medieval period, and simply tacked on the agent suffix '-or' to name whoever (or whatever company) does the dividing and dispatching.
- old school ignition
- used to literally distribute electric spark to engine cylinders
- margin business
- makes money on volume, not on loving the product
- power move
- controls who gets stock first during shortages
- cut them out
- direct to consumer exists entirely to kill this job