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No, keep doing it the way you're doing it.  That's perfectly good link juice flowing between those pages. Breadcrumbs are a nice way to communicate the hierarchy to Google--not because they're breadcrumbs, but simply because of their nature: all pages at each level contribute link juice back up to each of its ancestor pages.  A child page has the least internal links; its parent has more; its grandparent even more; etc.