In a mysterious announcement, Advocare suddenly gets rid of all MLM components of their pay plan, but keeps a single layer, direct selling feature:  https://www.directsellingnews.com/advocare-announces-revision-of-business-model/ and they are also selling the products on the Walmart.com website: https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=advocare Not much doubt in my mind there was little retail sales going on within the MLM structure.