To ask you to swerve Shein & Temu

Watch Buy Now on Netflix!

Where did I say "I don't have any way of avoiding good linked to Chinese supply chains", please?

I said I make every effort to avoid it. In most cases I can easily avoid it by buying second hand.

Once again, I will ask: where else do you think slavery is acceptable?

If you can swerve posting ridiculously patronising threads, then maybe we can talk.

But you just said that you don’t have any way of avoiding of goods linked to Chinese supply chains? So how exactly are you not buying good made by slave labour?

Because cheaper shite from Shein and Temu probably won't last as long.
Or the people who buy it are more likely to throw it away and just buy another manicure kit the next Christmas, knowing they can get another cheap one as a present.
I honestly don't understand how people can care so little about the planet and the slavery that we are paying for.

Which goods do I buy "all day long" from chains linked to slave labour, please? I buy very little day to day or even week to week (not counting food). And when I do, it is mainly second hand.

Again you haven't answered my question: where else do you think slavery is acceptable?

Ok so you buy goods all day long linked to Chinese supply chains and slavery. But like to virtue signal about two brands in particular.

Got it.

Hoensyly, so predictable from the ultra woke crowd. None of their ‘morals’ ever stand up to scrutiny.

Oh I don’t wear make up.
But my daughters do. And beauty bits I also mean to cover toiletries like deodorant, shampoo, shower gel.

But your kids are grown up? So they can understand they don’t need presents?

Also, in your earlier post you refer to “beauty bits” that your don’t buy from Shein/Temu. These aren’t necessary items. Why buy them? The beauty industry is a con anyway.

I didn't say I had. I said I make every effort to avoid it.

There is no excuse for knowingly buying something from a platform like Temu which you know is rife with slave produced goods just because it's cheap.

How about you answer my question: where else do you think slavery is acceptable?

I’d be really upset if a hard up relative felt they had to get me anything, and it would be massively compounded if they’d spent money they couldn’t afford buying me planet-destroying child labour produced shite from Temu and Shein.

Well manicure kits for one.

Advent calendars and stocking fillers for adult children for another.

But tell us how you have managed to stop buying everything that is linked to Chinese supply chains. It is a major achievement which we’d like to know about. So go on, how have you done it?

Define unnecessary?

Are socks unnecessary?
Period pants?
cutlery?
screwdrivers?
tape measures?
wellington boots?
pyjamas?
sunglasses?
reading glasses?

I make every effort to avoid doing so. For example, most of the clothes I buy are second hand as is my phone.

There is absolutely no excuse for buying unnecessary stuff from Temu when you know there is slave labour in the chain. Absolutely none.

For what other reasons do you find slavery acceptable?

Buy cheap, buy twice

Do you have stopped buying everything made in China? Do enlighten us as to how you are extricating your purchasing from Products linked to Chinese supply chains.

Or are you just virtue signalling.

I agree totally. Please shop responsibly. We need less stuff and more thought.

But why would a top from Shein be more likely to end up in landfill than a top from Next?
Or a manicure kit from Temu be more likely to end up in landfill than one from Boots?

This is worrying as many things on amazon seem to be resold temu items too

Eh? Have you been hibernating for the last 30 years since online shopping has taken off? You seem to not have a clue about this works.

I was given 23 pencils for a class of 31 so yes there are schools that don’t have enough resources for all their pupils and god forbid if some get lost - there aren’t any to replace them! You clearly haven’t worked in a school if you think we’d get away with saying children can’t write becuase we don’t have the resources. If a parent would ever like to donate an ethically sourced box of pencils to a class so I wouldn’t have to use my own salary I would be delighted. Somehow I don’t think that’s likely to happen though.

I think I probably buy far less items at Xmas than the average person.Ditto Xmas food. No xmas trips out like pantomimes or light trails. No real xmas tree. Decorations years old.
I don’t buy from Temu so there is loads to open, I buy so there are some things to open.

Sorry but this argument is totally fatuous.

There is NO valid excuse to use slavery in this day and age.

Absolutely none.

You certainly don't get to use slavery to bring yourself "a little bit of joy".

I mean what the actual fuck. What else is it ok to use slaves for as long as it's cheap.

“Elitist” ha what a joke. If you saw my life that’s the first time I’d ever be called that.

I haven’t got a pot to piss in but I’d rather go without unnecessary future-landfill crap than be a proud sponsor of human slavery and a wasteful consumer of the earth’s resources.

It’s called having integrity.