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Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by grey-area »

crowcroft wrote: post #514
bgnn wrote: post #499

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I can't see how can add industry be resilient to recession. Maybe if you switch to selling ads for government propaganda?

Advertising on the whole is not recession proof[1], although in the last two dips Google showed growth in ad revenue[2], and Meta was relatively stable[3]. The first thing that gets cut is 'new channels' and experiments (read: channels that have bad measurable ROI). Pinterest, X, Snap. After that it's the most 'wasteful' brand spending/high cost per reach broadcast media that gets cut. Cinema, local TV, and increasin…

Not sure experiences from the covid recession tell us anything. That was a very short sharp shock followed by massive bailouts and stimulus for companies and individuals. The figures for that time period are not useful as comparators.

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Post by fundad »

sanktanglia wrote: post #591
fundad wrote: post #579

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Instead of the US government spending away on overcapacity so Canadians can have cheap products, that money should go to public housing and healthcare subsidies. I think this is better for the US long term because agriculture is heavily subsidized and competes with housing and other industries for land and labor.

Oh yeah the money from the tariffs are definitely going to go to help average Americans. Oh wait be did this last time and 90% of the tariffs went to propping up all the industries that went to shit due to reciprocal tariffs (soy beans and others) and we never recovered. So many countries moved away from us and never came back. That's exactly what's going to happen this time, alienating is from our allies, almost lik…

I don't expect an insurrectionist to do good for Americans.

I also think government spending on overcapacity so we can export food is a waste of money and bad for the economy and the environment. How many millions of acres of soy bean crops do we actually need?

If the market for exported soy suffers because of who people voted for, let's reduce the subsidies by n%, farmers will plant less won't be able to keep all their land and we can return that land to Native Americans. This is disruption we need (but won't get because murica).

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Post by layer8 »

ronbenton wrote: post #522
zamalek wrote: post #411

I wonder if we can look forward to the end of the letter soup brands on Amazon, it's ridiculously difficult finding real brands in between them. That would be one silver lining in all this mess, at least.

All of them made out of balsa wood yet have 10,000 5-star reviews. It’s a joke

“I bought this product for my husband and he loves it.”

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Post by RiverCrochet »

jacobgkau wrote: post #606
NegativeLatency wrote: post #594

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I've found I buy fewer things in general, and also the things I do buy are of higher quality when I do it in person. Might even get some useful advice if it's something like a tool. Also it's just more fun, especially if it's a nice bike ride, walk, or trip on transit. > And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/K…

My girlfriend needed a humidifier last week. Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and Lowe's had mostly the same 2-3 brands of single-room humidifiers, most of which were no-name companies that apparently "specialize" in humidifiers (i.e. were spun up to be a shell for selling cheap humidifiers). We found one Honeywell branded one on sale and went with that since it's a legit brand; it was defective (lots of reviews online h…

Big consumer brands haven't meant anything for a long time. Honeywell and GE among those. They all sell their name to other manufacturers and have been doing so for decades. The best thing you can do is keep the receipt and make sure you follow up on returning it or getting warranty service if it breaks in those timeframes. It's really not worth even trying to do the research on things that are less than a hundred bucks. Buy something that looks nice, tape the receipt to it, and return it/warranty claim it if it acts up.

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Post by fundad »

maxwell wrote: post #603
realo wrote: post #572

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The Donald tariffs certainly changed my behavior as a Canadian consumer. For example, i stopped buying US wine, US orange juice and I keep an eye open for any US made thing I could remove from my environment.

Nice, you found Canadian wine and orange juice?

They can substitute US products with those from plenty of nations plowing money into overcapacity and dumping their exports on the international market.

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Post by jlarocco »

maxwell wrote: post #603
realo wrote: post #572

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The Donald tariffs certainly changed my behavior as a Canadian consumer. For example, i stopped buying US wine, US orange juice and I keep an eye open for any US made thing I could remove from my environment.

Nice, you found Canadian wine and orange juice?

But he doesn't need Canadian, only not from the USA.

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Post by maxwell »

ceejayoz wrote: post #600
maxwell wrote: post #599

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Buy American. False Made in USA claims are subject to fines exceeding $40k per violation.

Good luck enforcing those on a Chinese drop shipper.

You haven't been following the FTC's enforcement?

e.g. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/owner-conservative-appa...

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Post by prmoustache »

pixl97 wrote: post #453
prmoustache wrote: post #419

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Comparing with Amazon is flawed as most of the stuff you find on Amazon is also pure junk/waste.

I keep hearing stuff like this and I kind of fully expect someone to tell me you have to pay Monster cable prices to get something that's not junk. Really my day to day experience isn't this at all. I have good amounts of "chinese junk" tools that I use on a weekly/monthly basis that I paid probably 25% of a name brand tool and they are holding up just fine. I'm not using them daily so don't need to spend my life sav…

I also got some decent stuff I bought from aliexpress but it is really a tiny fraction of what is offered.

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Post by ceejayoz »

maxwell wrote: post #647
ceejayoz wrote: post #600

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Good luck enforcing those on a Chinese drop shipper.

You haven't been following the FTC's enforcement? e.g. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/owner-conservative-appa...

> The company is based in Salt Lake City.

Chinese drop shippers aren't dumb enough to pull the scam from within the FTC's juridsiction.

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Post by rtaylorgarlock »

I'm relatively happy whenever I see negative news about Temu. Call it a bias, though my limited data[0] (itself biased) supports whatever negative perceptions I have towards Temu. The only brand to get 0/100? Why does human exploitation always have to pair with the absolute cheapest prices sourced from developing countries?

[0]: https://baptistworldaid.org.au/resources/ethical-fashion-rep...

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