A Toy Distributor
What It's Like To Be... - A podcast by Dan Heath - Tuesdays

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Forecasting demand for 40,000 different products, arranging for model kits to traverse the globe from Chinese factories to mom-and-pop hobby shops, and enduring random customs inspections with Alan Bass, a hobby kit and toy distributor. Why can't shops place orders directly with factories and cut out distributors? And what is it like to discover your childhood toys were actually samples given out for market research purposes? The hobby kit and toy distributor business he runs is Stevens Inte...