[toyg]

You've just described Hollywood, the music business, but even the supermarket/distribution business. The middleman tends to accumulate all the profit.

[badpun]

Big chain stores have their profit margins at below 5%.

[toyg]

But they do it by squeezing businesses upstream, who end up with even lower margins.

[daedrdev]

This means most of the profit goes to the consumer since every part of the retail chain has such little profits. Its common for retail to be as low as 3%

[quantified]

Downvoted, but because there is no "profit" to the consumer. We get cheap clothes of which some stand up well over time considering the cost.