Yea it should be? I just wonder how that plays out, especially for the general rate of profit or that tendency for it to fall. Like with commercial capital being detrimental to industrial capital in terms of that profit, taking up their own share

What you said about grocery stores having their own bakery and deli/butcher and the mention of store brands, reminded me of grocery stores like Walmart selling their own brand of products. I think with stocking shelves or maintaining the premises, it doesn’t add value since the product has already been produced? And it’s just awaiting it’s final “metamorphosis” and what stuck out to me in last chapter was Marx mentioning this

1. that as a result of the division of labour the capital devoted exclusively to buying and selling (and this includes not only the money required to buy commodities, but also the money which must be invested in labour to maintain the merchant’s establishment, and in his constant capital-the storehouses, transport, etc.) is smaller than it would be if the industrial capitalist were constrained to carry on the entire commercial part of his business on his own;

Merchant’s capital is simply capital functioning in the sphere of circulation. The process of circulation is a phase of the total process of reproduction. But no value is produced in the process of circulation, and, therefore, no surplus-value.[…]

and with that it could be regarded to the merchant investing labor like store employees to maintain the establishment? Except for deli or bakery and such? where they produce value

In a way grocery stores seem like a weird mix of commercial and industrial capital? but the reason I ask is grocery stores seem like an extra step in that distribution chain, and in a way the distributor offloading their products but those products still have yet to complete that final circuit or “metamorphoses”? and so it just sort of like, an extra step but still the same thing? just with an extra middle man.