There are already many examples of this in a wide variety of sectors. Here are some other ways to circumvent the waste territories. Revenues go directly to the people who produce the goods, rather than to intermediaries. Worker-owned businesses and those that adopt a team approach to production and decision making can save much of the cost of management oversight and increase efficiency. Levi Strauss and Chrysler are among the corporations that have seen major increases in efficiency through empowering teams of employees to make decisions and organize their work.
Credit unions help keep money out of the vast waste territory of the world of high finance.
Credit unions and cooperatives also save much of the expense associated with advertising, which is one of the most egregious of waste territories. It not only wastes talent, time, and materials, it creates vast quantities of cultural pollution. Moreover, it creates a social norm based on the wasteful practices of over-consumption. Buying clubs that order directly from wholesalers circumvent the advertising waste territory and save on the costs of maintaining and staffing a retail outlet. Buying from small businesses saves the cost of supporting layers of management who often spend much of their time overseeing each other's work and battling other companies for market share.