Do our national-chain supermarkets really sell black market hair care products?
With these types of higher end products, there is usually a distribution contract that allows wholesalers to only sell within their region to salons. What happens, I believe, is that wholesalers from outside the market make deals with these supermarkets and sell them bulk quantities of product they haven’t moved yet at a huge discount. My parents sold Redken and other high end products for years and would always get mad when they saw someone selling product that they were supposed to have exclusive rights to in our area. The problem is that the control numbers that are printed on the bottles are usually removed so there is no way of tracing the product back to its source. They do have lawsuits where the trail is revealed.
