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I spent a minute thinking about a product local to me that had the same appeal. I typed http://michiganlamb.com into the browser and discovered the concept is not uncommon.

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Yes, I think it's pretty common (here's one around me: https://locavoredelivery.com/ ), but still delivers value and can be a good business.

Reminds me that middlemen provide value in a lot of ways, even though they are hated and everyone thought the internet would disintermediate them all.

the only people who hate middlemen are people who cannot into economics.

Yep. Even if it has never been easier for the maker/producer to setup their own Shopify store, it's still not enough. Sure a decent website on shopify is better than nothing, but most likely only your current customers will go. You need extra skills to bring NEW customers: marketing, SEO, social media, etc.. and chances are that it's someone else that will have those skills.

I typed in "Kentlamb.com" and found out Kent Lamb is the name of an attorney.

I remembered this comment when I noticed that the person that wrote the Dockerhub breach blog post [0] was a Mr. Kent Lamb. Baader-Meinhof?

[0] - https://success.docker.com/article/docker-hub-user-notificat...

For the case of Mr. Lamb perhaps it would be 'Baaaaa'der–Meinhof :-)

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