So for some industries, distributors play a pivotal role in the distribution of the product.

He works a dealership over on Fulton.

I'm offering you the opportunity of a lifetime... a new car dealership.

Do you have any sales distributors in Japan?

They provide distribution and accounting, bill collection, etc.

Retailers and mass merchants often, though not always, get their products supplied through distributors.

October is inventory time.

The shop had sold out its stock of that magazine.

On the other hand, low utilization let me pick another color will lead the prices dropping.

If it turns out you're right, we could sell dealerships now, which sounds crazy.

Sell, sell, sell.

Bogdan just kept me here late, you know, doing some inventory, and...

What about the dealers filing suit against you?

Now, when companies first started, there were essentially manufacturing concerns and they hired agents, outsiders to be their sales channel, and the first types of companies we had made physical products and therefore, had physical channels salespeople, stores, etc., but with the emergence of the web, we now have web and mobile channels.

The ins and outs of being an idiot.

For this quiz to check your understanding of the channel diagrams, match the appropriate channel diagram to the corresponding channel and put the appropriate number in the correct box.

Can I get a dealership?

Quite an idea of yours... selling dealerships for cars that don't exist.

They deal in fruit and vegetables at that store.

There are some nice apples on sale in that shop.

We sell goods on commission.

We manufacture decorative ceiling tiles.

Guess what?

We have hundreds of records in stock.

Sell off what we have. And then....

What video lets me do is since I can't be in front of him at a sales counter,

Your direct sales people can actually be the one talking to the consumers directly or they could be the ones selling to system integrators,

The dealer gave an old Nissan to me for 200,000 yen.

Liquor is not sold at this store.

Liquor isn't sold at this store.

This is a phone call conversation from a car dealership from 27 minutes ago.

This was an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

What do you sell?

SG amp A that mean selling, general and administrative expenses.

The storekeeper said it was the only one of its kind he had ever had in stock.

Now what's really interesting is pre 1990s, the only channels to get to a customer was at physical channel.

But this is, of course, an optimistic scenario. Let's think of other scenarios.

So instead of just small storefronts, they aggregate tens or hundreds of thousands of products under one roof.

And their value proposition, as even they realized later, was pretty unclear.

When I was him back then,

There's only two news stands within a block of here that sell Persian newspapers.

Look,secure access to each of the stores receipt records so we can search through them.

So dealers might not have a physical storefront for end user customers, but retailers are all about main street and talking to your customers.

Our company has a well organized system of 200 sales offices, located all over Japan.

The store has a large stock of wines.