Too wonder why people shop on temu Shein etc

[HappySunday1]

When we know how bad the environment is how much plastic and stuff ends up in land fill how poor the workers conditions are why are we supporting them. I see so many people doing big hauls of stuff. I know it’s cheap and maybe it’s all people can afford by you buy cheap you buy twice.

Good for you! People can buy what they like it's freedom of choice! Temu isn't for me, but shein like others have said is cheap and better quality than some high street stores!

Temu has loads of nice wooden toys. I buy lots of goods on there. I bought some icing nozzles for piping on the top of cupcakes for less than half the price anywhere else. I bought my 2 DGS's a bubble gun each. Exactly the same gum is 3x more expensive on Amazon.

So don’t shop there then. But your sample size of one does not generalise to the rest of the population. I don’t have any need to use a car mechanic but I don’t object to their existence on that basis.
Incidentally, I have gym clothes from shein which I workout in daily and haven’t had to replace it in two years. I bought expensive gymsharks (which, let’s face it were probably made at the same factory) and they started pilling after two washes.

Neither have I, but have just had a look and I will be putting an order in at one or both outlets, as the prices are really good.

So thanks @HappySunday1, for letting myself and others know about Shein and Temu. I think you have just got them some extra customers, which I do realise was not what you were aiming for, but it’s going to save me some money, just when I really need it. Just can’t understand how they can sell things so cheap, makes even Home Bargains and B&M look expensive!

At the start of Covid around Feb 2020, The virus which originated in Wuhan, spread quickly around Europe. One of the reasons was that Chinese workers in the HIGH END FASHION INDUSTRY of Milan were returning from Chinese New Year back home, and brought it back with them.

So you see, the Chinese have conquered the world. Not only do they sell so called "tat", they also run a lot of the (presumably la la labeled) fashion clothing factories that supply high end shops in Europe and other countries. People buy it, thinking it is oh so good, look! it's made in Italy, the centre of fashion, so it must be ethical!

I lost interest in a lot of the eco guilt trippers after realising that. No one really knows what they are buying and from whom. The masking of Chinese labour in Europe and elsewhere is very effective. Made in Italy indeed.

So you see I much prefer to KNOW I am buying from China, than to be hoodwinked into THINKING I am buying from Italian high couture. I hate to be fooled.

Climate change also doesn't give a shit about you. It's about to totally fuck you over in the most stupendous fashion in actual fact.

Not everything they sell is plastic.

Which high street is Shein better than exactly? Curious, I just has a look at the Shein website. The clothes look terrible, all too tight dresses and badly badly cut polyester jumpers and all displayed clearly computer generated models. It's like a Poundshop Jane Norman.

@FestiveSandman nice fighting talk but you against the climate, I wonder who's going to win there?

@Circularargument but what I am trying to say is the stuff from SHEIN / Temu / Ali express is everywhere. Doesn't make you any more worthy buying it from a shop. All that's happening by buying direct is cutting out the middleman.

whilst I agree I will have to also say don’t be so naive. Everything that you buy has an environmental and ethical impact and not in a good way. Boo hoo awful working conditions in Leicester! Products that are marketed as sustainable most of which come from China, a well known homeware stores many cases of child labour, your mobile phone has a lithium battery the mining of which is unethical. It shouldn’t be a case of just shaming these fast fashion businesses in far flung places you need to think about this in everything you consume. They key is consume a lot less.

You do take business away from small guys when you shop on Temu. I am a surface pattern designer and many of my colleagues had their work copied and placed on products without their consent or licensing fees. At least, Shein pays their artists.

Once all the others have gone bust and we only have 100% Chinese options to shop in they’ll raise their prices and we’ll be stuffed

If you use the sites instead of the high street it would be hypocritical to also complain that the high street is rundown, council tax going up potholes, local council being slow finding a space for your SEN child, country not being patriotic, china economy growing faster than us etc etc

To paraphrase Billie Piper: because they want to!

YANBU although PP are probably correct that the quality, sustainability and worker conditions are unlikely to be much better in high street chains.

Personally I almost exclusively buy my clothes in charity shops as I feel I don't need to worry about sustainability and worker conditions if the garment is already in existence and has already been sold once.

If I shop on the high street, I will look through every label for materials and country of manufacturing (drives DM up the wall if we're shopping together) so shopping in charity shops saves me loads of time and disappointment 😅

Because they’re aged 15.

I think it’s just that the younger generation shop online now. It’s no different from me going to Primark etc as a teenager.

I don’t think that enough people in the UK worry about the ethics of companies like Shein etc who probably have children making garments and getting paid very low wages. The UK is a long way away geographically and it seems that means people look the other way and overlook how their fast fashion clothing may have been made.

There’s a website that compares company ethics and Shein had a negative write-up.

Course it will 😂

I love Shein. I've bought some really reasonable gorgeous clothes.

She does. You may not care about wearing fashionable clothes but others do and that doesn't make them morons.

I've had stuff from Temu. It's the same stuff you find in Home Bargains and B&M So far none of it has been crap, but I haven't bought toys. Never had anything from Shien, nothing I really liked on there.

For a similar reason people shop at primark. It’s cheap, fashions change so quickly and when you have teenagers to clothe you don’t want to be paying out a fortune for something that might only get worn a handful of times? I have bought a few bits from Shein, some have been awful and other bits have been brilliant, I would rather shop at better quality shops but sometimes I’m a bit skint and just want a new jumper/top.
Temu and Shein sell lots of things, not all of its plastic tat (yes a lot is), people are always going to be drawn to a bargain and many don’t think about where it’s come from or where it will end up.

I use both temu and shein. I live in the carribean and have a post office box in miami that delivers here. The clothes here are either very poor quality of very expensive. I needed some swim shorts recently, as both my pairs were wearing thin. I ordered them thru temu. Imagine my surprise when they showed up that they were the identical shorts to what I had bought in Canada a year ago in a very well regarded store! Sorry but in this COL crisis, I will buy whatever is the best price for the quality. So far no real misses on either temu or shein.