oh but now you're an evil nazi capitalist who eats kittens for breakfast and stomps babies for fun, you have to sacrifice everything you have or you're evil
Seeing how Sora reacted, the merchant probably gonna try convince him to his way since Rock's and, Bloody Rose party want to stay, making a big mistake since Sora is probably going to do the same.
They could stay with the merchandise and let the survivors go to the nearest town quickly, doubt they weigh as much as the merchandise so the trip would be much faster.