WASHINGTON: Shopping online at Temu, Laurie Silva paid just US$1.25 for earrings and US$15 for a cardigan - she is among millions of US consumers the Chinese platform is wooing with low-cost bargains and a dizzying array of products.
Temu topped US app download rankings in early April, a spot it held since January, but its rapid rise comes as platforms with links to China face growing scrutiny and when a ban on youth favourite TikTok appears increasingly inevitable.
According to Sensor Tower data, some of the most popular platforms downloaded in the US currently have Chinese roots, including TikTok, video editor CapCut and fashion upstart Shein. CNA
Shein and Temu are the number one and two non American online shops in the USA and are the top challengers to Amazon. The wide varieties of goods and the unbelieveable prices would soon knock out Amazon and also Walmarts.
It is looking like after TikTok, Shein and Temu would be the next two obvious targets to be banned, in the name of securities and data collection. What else is new.
What is pertinent about these two online shops is that they brought great values to the average Americans, bringing them goods at prices they cannot refuse. Banning these two online shops on fictitious and clumsy excuses would not work as it would affect the pockets of the average Americans. They would be the people that would be hurt most. It would be the perfect storm waiting to happen. There would be violent protests and demonstrations on the streets if Washington clowns dare to touch these two online shops.
TikTok could be more for fun and leisure to many, though many also used it for business. But Shein and Temu are totally different kind of fish. It hurts the pockets of average Americans and their cost of living. They are going to riot if Shein and Temu are banned by the unthinking rogues that only think about scoring political points.
Just watch how this develops. The losers would be the average American consumers and they would not take it lying down.
Meanwhile USA supermarts are closing like nobody's business. Some of the biggies like Walmart, Sears, BHG and other biggies we have seldom heard of over here, are closing stores by the hundreds, having lost millions over the years. How many employees are being laid off is up to you to imagine. Of course, that also means more job creations in other lower paid jobs, take it or leave it. Job creation is glowingly reported but job attrition goes under the radar.
ReplyDeleteThe job market in USA is still interpreted as very strong. Yeah, the USA economy is also strong, but in the next breath they pricked the balloon, saying there are also strong headwinds. This is always the same old narrative. Very strong going forward but there may be signs of slowing they will tell you. What are they saying? Basically nothing, but bullshiting.
All these store closures are the result of online shopping. Now, where do those products on online platforms come from? Mostly from China of course. The USA mainland produces nothing that their citizens need, except if they want guns, which are plentiful, and tanks and fighter jets. Even tanks are not being produced in numbers large enough to supply to Ukraine. Wait a year or two they promised Zelenskyy.
Consumers have now found out during COVID19 and subsequent lockdowns that much cheaper things can be bought online. Shein, for example, is also discreetly taking the market by storm, and together with others, are cannibalising the business of the conventional shopping outlets and malls. Without the high rentals necessary for a cool presence in malls, they are able to offer products that are so much cheaper, such that you honestly cannot think twice about buying. That is why the USA Government is cracking down on those Chinese online business platforms, with fabricated claims about the dangers of Chinese products. Everything is capable of spying on them and must be demonised. They are also posing competition to Amazon.
The USA will regret what they wish for, if Chinese companies do take up the de-coupling narrative and move out of the USA, providing only online shopping presence in the USA. After all, this is the de factor modus operandi of Chinese businesses selling their products for years already. They have even been providing regular customers with updates on new products via their mobile phones. Such is the ease of doing business today.
Here in Red Dot, they can reinvent all they want with those shops in Orchard Road with what they claim 'new shopping experience', but it is not going to improve the shopping environment. It will only result in even higher rentals that will eventually drive those tenants out of business for good.
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ReplyDeleteOnline orders from China last time no no what's 89cts and 59cts before they implemented the new GST online orders taxes had same goods that are sometimes even fifty percent cheaper than the retail stores here.
Just clicked Q00010 and Lar Zar La for quick orders and pesto! Bu Air sometimes even just two days and send right to your post boxes or doorsteps.
Without main all sorts of varieties of goods from China, just as good and cheap if not better, many would NOT able to afford and buy more for their comfortable daily pick me ups.
The Americunts would be eating their stale bread if their Daft Corrupter Billionaires and Millionaires were to ban all these China's online shopping which they cannot really buy their own BS expensive labours even lower quality goods as compared to China.
They be burning and looting all their so called luxurious stores to the ground.
Especially their Black Lives Matter Blacks.
Can see they just walked in and out with Whatsoever they wants without anyone dared to stop them.
Hey! We are armed with the machines guns and AR15s that your own White Leaders loved and laws that we can owned.
So now we using them for our convenience.
Bye bye and tks and no tks.
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ReplyDeleteGeorge Galloway's Latest post seemed to imply that the. 911 Twin Towers Fiasco is created and Charade by the Americunts themselves.
Just to accused and attacked and to eliminate the ME Arabs and Others.
Wow see how cruel they are even played this murderous acts to kill their own.
Actually killing other own won't give a damn but just to have an excuse and reason to have wars and invaded so many in order to rein supreme.
Galloway also said that the Americunts barbarians since their existence had only one year of no war and was belligerent and warlike in their genes.
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ReplyDeleteAnother Clown Presidential Candidate for their Clowns Circus Presidential Elections 2024.
Another Kennedy who is just as incoherent as that Bidamn.
Saying we are a Great Nation and GOOD people that are the Saviours of the World.
We are in Urukiane for good causes.
That's their inherent genes of wars mongering and still have the mirage of been World's Supreme Leader.