What is the Difference between wholesale and dropshipping?

Difference  between wholesale and dropshipping?

Both wholesaling and drop shipping require partnerships with suppliers and buyers;

 

however, the wholesaler’s customers are retail vendors, while the drop shipper’s customers are end-users. 

Dropshipping, in other words, is a form of the direct retail market. 

Wholesalers transport goods from suppliers to store sellers. Drop shippers link drop-ship partners (manufacturers or wholesalers) with retail customers.

 Dropshipping and wholesaling both entail bulk discounts, and both the drop shipper and the wholesaler charge their clients a higher price than they initially charged for goods.

 Although the wholesaler must keep goods in storage while working to resell them, 

the drop shipper seldom sees or delivers products to consumers.