About twice a month for umpteen years, we have fielded many telephone calls often heralded by the now familiar question, "Do you sell to the public? ".  The short answer is YES! In fact, we always have, and for many years. Retail only, never wholesale. Thus, we doth ponder, why the question?  Most likely, this all harks back to the "old" days when retailers and wholesalers were quite ran and operated as distinct and disparate entities. Shopkeepers kept their shops retailing directly to the public and wholesalers ran factories to only wholesale to their shopkeeper customers. In this traditional, but rapidly fading commercial or business model,  wholesalers, or distributors, were ...