Rapid growth of Temu and Shein threatens US businesses and consumers, Biden says.
  • Fester@lemm.eeEnglish
    392·
    3 months ago

    I thought maybe this would be about the cheap disposable products and massive amount of waste these companies produce, but nope - it’s just the wrong pollution.

    We need to create massive amounts of cheap disposable American products and send massive amounts of American waste to our landfills.

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
      16·
      3 months ago

      Why not just subsidize the shit out of the USPS?

      I buy a lot of AliExpress stuff, craft and hobby electronics stuff, and have run into situations where a domestic vendor will have what I want, sometimes even at a competitive price, but their shipping will be $5-10- maybe discounted if I spend $50, 100, or more, while the Chinese option is $2 postage, or even “free postage if I spend $10.”

      If you could mail a 100 gram padded envelope for under $1, it would cloae the gap substantially.