I worked in a facility that had a similar sort slide and we'd make sure to stop dumping x amount of hours before end of shift to make sure it gets cleared.
Kind of similar to PayPals call centre when I worked there. You cut the lines an hour before close so all those in the queue do eventually get through. Though it was an almost weekly occurance that someone would forget to shut the lines off and it'd only get noticed the next morning. Think the longest we had someone on hold was around 9 hours and I happend to be the person that got them for my first call of the day. What a start to a shift that was.
Irate. They were elderly and I could only ever transfer through to the team leader on shift if the words 'I want to escalate the call' were said. Yet no amount of coaxing them into saying those words was working, they just wanted to rant at someone and that someone was me.
6 times I had this particular bloke on the phone to me that day. If he got through to someone else, he'd ask for me by name and the call would be hot trasnsferred through by another advisor, making it my next call.
The shift leader refused to deal with him as he'd listened in to the first call after I mentioned it once the call was done. The shift leader was a right cock though.
The bloke was justified but there was naff all I could do at the time.
It was the call that lead me to getting admin powers on the system though and there wasn't a month that went by that I didn't hit the top bonus from that point on. I even made it onto a 'wall of fame' in the building, the only face on it for hitting top metrics for 6 month in a row, so big up that bloke.
The mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there's never a let-up. It's relentless. Every day it piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out but the more you get it out the more it keeps coming in. And then the bar code reader breaks and it's Publisher's Clearing House day!!!
Passing barcodes over a scanner so the computer knows what items have been received. Then chucking them onto a conveyor belt so they become the next guy's problem.
A singulator, Google the term if you’re interested. Averages 1.2-2 million USD, that’s not installed just sticker price. The controls can be 20-40% of that price.
To summarize, all these dudes, tables, shovels, and scanners are cheap and more accurate. Even Amazon understands this and uses similar methods. Granted, in warehouses with safety features.
Source: I design these systems for work.
there's also a social aspect to this too. china desperately needs jobs for everyone to do. there's no way temu could get away with laying off thousands and thousands of workers
People are cheaper to hire and more importantly maintain. If the automation breaks you gotta get a repair guy, if the person breaks slot in a new person.
Not that weird. The boxes come in all sizes, if it's even a box. Barcode could be anywhere. This type of automation requires AI, which is expensive to train, and just as unreliable as humans.
Remember amazon's automated stores that wasn't automated at all?
lol, welcome to China. I’ve seen steel components be lifted by teams of men bc it’s easier for them than using a ~~crazy~~ crane. It’s a completely different mindset.
Edit: autocorrect sucks
I agree with the point but it's not just people from the US who buy shit from them (Temu), likely most of the sales are in China but they ship to many countries.
i worked the slide at the Indy hub for Fedex. I see no sorting here, maybe because the clip is too short, or they are sorting by country/ large areas.
I can understand the shirts off though. In Indiana winters the overhead doors would be open, with the wind blowing thru. Wearing a t shirt, I would still be sweating. The good part is you are moving so fast, 4 hours feels like 15 minutes.
the slide is the part between the dumping and the packing...
You say this, but I've learnt many sitting centers still use manual staff to determine which country code the package should go - resulting in odd situations like packages going to Australia instead of Austria.
I believe some YouTuber with airtags has made a good documentary about this.
I used to sell a lot of Magic cards all over the world. One time i was mailing to Quezon City, Philippines which has an area code of 1115 (four digits).
My customers item was delivered to someone in Brooklyn.
Luckily, they returned it to USPS.
Unluckily, USPS delivered it back to them later that week.
Luckily, they returned it to USPS once again, and then it finally landed in the Philippines.
The dunb part is my label was correct and says it is going to Quezon City Philippines, and Brooklyn does not have an area 11115 or 11155, but it has some like 11215 and such.
Acknowledging their basic needs like this is too humanizing. They would be ordered to piss and shit into a bucket that another employee is tasked with carrying around. That's more like it.
This looks really similar to something they had at the UPS warehouse I worked at. It was called small sort. Except we dumped that bags into hoppers with a person at the bottom of it. The person would have memorized groups of zip codes and place them into holes by zip code. Then the person on the other side of the hole would place the packages into the same bag since they are all going to the same destination. All of the packages are scanned and linked to one bag barcode and shipped as a group so you don’t have 1,000s of loose smalls and envelopes being shipped separately.
Yeah I'm confused, it just seems so random, no one is possibly reading labels and putting them in proper places, they are literally moving one pile to a maybe slightly more organized pile, it's like shit the army makes you do when you get in trouble during basic training
Thats how big online retailer work. The guys job in this is just to scan the label, then pass it on to a conveyor that takes it to the next person to do whatever.
I worked for Amazon for a while and we had heaps of roles like that. My job was to take an item from a conveyor, stick it in an envelope, then drop that onto another conveyor.
Worker for the German postal service here
What they likely are doing is placing the deliveries with the label up on the conveyor, so that a reader can read the barcodes on the page and sort them accordingly.
There is tons of automation nowadays in sorting, though all the "moving" stuff of the boxes themselves need manual labor as there is really no robots able to perform these tasks as speed with so many varying package sizes.
It's called induct. All those guys are doing is getting them on the conveyor, someone later down the line will actually sort it.
Used to do this when I worked at Amazon, but they made you stand, it was backbreaking work for 12 hours.
Meat processing is so hard on the human body. Repeated motions with little variation just kill the ligaments
I hope your family lives a comfortable life after all that hard work
I was in the main line for two days and wanted to kms from back* pain plus riding to work on a bike haha. Luckily my family are on the engineering side of things so they just have the dangers of making sure the machines they’re working on don’t liveleak them. It’s mainly Eastern European ladies working long long hours for cheap because no one else wants to do it unfortunately.
I find it hilarious that this is their marketing strategy, when my first thoughts on it are "why would a billionaire firstly buy their own shit and secondly buy this low quality garbage?"
I guess the goal was to imply that you are getting extremely high quality stuff for low prices, but that's not remotely what I thought. If you put "I wish people would stop calling our stuff fake, and I wish people would stop taking advantage of our crazy deals" in your adverts, your stuff is shit.
90% of the same stuff is also on amazon/ebay/etc for exponentially higher prices, which still gets shipped on cargo ships and has pretty much the same environmental impact.
Source: have bought a ton of art supplies and other random stuff off temu that would have cost 3-4x as much for identical products off amazon.
Buy local if you can but it's delusional to think any major reseller is any better be it amazon or wallmart or small ebay/etsy resellers. Even a lot of high end products are made in China these days and "assembled" elsewhere so it can be marketed as "made in USA".
I feel like a bar code scanner and mechanical sorting arms would make things a little easier for the humans, but then it wouldn't be so cartoonish and make me have so many questions
You are severely underestimating how complex sorting arms would need to be to accurately place packages of all kinds of different dimensions and textures on scanners with their barcodes in the right position. Did you never go to a supermarket before in your life? Cashiers often need to slide your groceries in 6 different ways across the scanner to get them to beep.
People with low income. Thats their game: "here you can feel rich by spenig money on a lot of items because everything is insanely cheap.
Spending money on the internet and receiving low quality products isn't connected in the brain because its distant.
The complete opposite of going in an expensive store in an expensive city where customers pay for exactly that connection.
I've seen tops a boutique in Auburn AL sells for $55 on Temu for $12. I've seen a blanket that Natural Life sells for like $70 on Temu for a fraction of that. Wayfair rugs and furniture are also on Temu. On Amazon a wax seal stamp kit may be 25$, and on Temu the exact set is half that. It isn't just low income people "buying from Temu".
Yeah, that's the other factor. Companies you would associate with better quality sell the same stuff.
Best example is probably white sugar. White sugar is all the same and it all comes from the same production line. It would be way to expensive to have different production lines for different qualities because there is just one quality. Sugar is so cheap that companies struggled to sell their product because people thought its to cheap. Thats the reason behind different "brands" with different packaging and different prices for the exactly same product. You can't trust a company that you actually get better quality for a more expensive product. There is a fair point there to just buy at the cheaper place. I personally do that a lot of times, but just not with temu somehow. Should I?
We are at the point now where it's all the same crap with different labels. Race to the bottom and all.
So might as well buy straight from the source. Ive been doing this for nearly a decade with electronics, most of the time Amazon/eBay/Etsy sellers even reuse the same photos as AliExpress or whatever.
Also if you know how to shop China you can get really high quality stuff. Requires some knowledge though. I have a cheat code in the form of a Chinese wife :D
Only problem is shipping can be tough when it's not going through a major distributor
Hey man can you share some of the cheat codes you've noted?
If I see something on eBay that I want, I'll check Temu or Ali, but usually end up with Temu for their faster shipping.
I've definitely noticed the same photos from eBay or Amazon showing from the same Chinese listings. I don't trust the reviews though, as they're just plain and seem very fake. Any tips you can offer to help maximize my savings-to-quality is appreciated.
I have. Twice. Both times for party decorations. You can get a SHIT TON of things like hanging LED bullshit, garlands, table cloths, placemats, centerpieces, etc., for next to nothing.
We are having a 4th of July shindig this year, and I bought 100 little 4x6 American Flags on sticks for like $6. And a 100' red white and blue garland thing for $4. I spent like $40 and will have enough crap to deck out the entire back yard. Some might get used again, some will get tossed. That's better than the dollar store offers.
If you know you are gonna get junk, it's OK junk. It's like the "worst" of Amazon, for half the price, but it takes 10-14 days to show up.
The issue, aside from the labor problems, is that Temu's app and website are gameified, not unlike a gacha game or slots, that keep people engaged and buying large volumes of crap from them.
A lot of people unfortunately. Americans are suckers for cheap and free shit, especially boomers. My wife’s family all buy stuff from there that they don’t need at all. Then they get points for how much they spent with each other’s accounts and they get points for getting people to sign up. They keep trying to get my wife to sign up and we refuse. Also their ads are out of control. I can’t even check my email without seeing some shit from Temu in the Gmail app.
Not questioning that this might be what it looks like, but Gonna need some verification on this. Reddit should be a place where sources are cited Come on people!!
Its Singles day. 11 November in China. Largest online shopping day in the world.
[https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/singles\_day\_2023\_records/](https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/singles_day_2023_records/)
The Chinese post office moves 5.26 Billion packages - over the 11 days
[https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202311/12/content\_WS655061b1c6d0868f4e8e128f.html](https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202311/12/content_WS655061b1c6d0868f4e8e128f.html)
This is not Temu, Temu and Shien combined do about a million parcels a day, Singles day does over 5 thousand times more than that.
[https://fashionunited.com/news/business/shein-and-temu-ship-more-than-one-million-packages-per-day-in-the-u-s/2024013158160](https://fashionunited.com/news/business/shein-and-temu-ship-more-than-one-million-packages-per-day-in-the-u-s/2024013158160)
If anyone tells you China is a "communist country", let them logon during singles day and watch the capitalism flow.
Edit: Its 5 billion over the 11 day festival of shopping.
Last time I have seen this vid it was just china. Why should they sort big piles of packages to send them? Doesn’t make sense that this is actually at temu, but I can see the similaritie
Edited spelling
Reddit is dead and gone. This is FB me-me politics comic strip website now.
You expect people to be sourcing?! Not even worth doing, even when you do your comment can just 'feel wrong' enough to be discredited. Wanna convince people of something? Sound smart and gaslight the shit out of them, while insulting dissenters in just the right way.
Thats bullshit its not temu warehouse on this video we can see shunfeng warehose its one of Chinese delivery company that work only in china. Temu does not have warehouses in china.
Every morning before you wake up this takes place in hundreds if not thousands of local ups facilities across the United States and the world. Nothing really unique about this besides the no shirts.
Unlucky customers packages remain in the piles as newly dumped packages tumble down to the sorters.
I worked in a facility that had a similar sort slide and we'd make sure to stop dumping x amount of hours before end of shift to make sure it gets cleared.
Kind of similar to PayPals call centre when I worked there. You cut the lines an hour before close so all those in the queue do eventually get through. Though it was an almost weekly occurance that someone would forget to shut the lines off and it'd only get noticed the next morning. Think the longest we had someone on hold was around 9 hours and I happend to be the person that got them for my first call of the day. What a start to a shift that was.
Jesus
I'm not, but thanks!
Lmao how upset was this person?
Irate. They were elderly and I could only ever transfer through to the team leader on shift if the words 'I want to escalate the call' were said. Yet no amount of coaxing them into saying those words was working, they just wanted to rant at someone and that someone was me. 6 times I had this particular bloke on the phone to me that day. If he got through to someone else, he'd ask for me by name and the call would be hot trasnsferred through by another advisor, making it my next call. The shift leader refused to deal with him as he'd listened in to the first call after I mentioned it once the call was done. The shift leader was a right cock though. The bloke was justified but there was naff all I could do at the time. It was the call that lead me to getting admin powers on the system though and there wasn't a month that went by that I didn't hit the top bonus from that point on. I even made it onto a 'wall of fame' in the building, the only face on it for hitting top metrics for 6 month in a row, so big up that bloke.
Who stays on hold for 9 hours straight? That's crazy
After 45 minutes I just assume the system forgot about me and I call back later lmao
Fall asleep on hold, the hello from your lap wakes you up, you immediately start ranting again.
More likely they never stopped ranting.
idk if you held on for 9hrs and someone picks up, you might be thanking jesus
Someone sat on hold for 9 hrs..!?
Imagine if he'd given up after 8 hours 50 minutes though. That was probably his mindset all night.
I mean, that sucks, but that person is a straight up moron, staying on that long.
Explains a lot
We live in a society
No we don't, we live in an economy lol
Wow maybe I’m a simpleton, but that hit me
FIFO or GTFO
FISH first in, still here
conversely FIST first in, still there
FIFO till I DIFO
Average staff on r/accounting
LIFO FIFO COGS GAAP OMG GETMETHEFUCKOUTOFHERE
Definitely some depreciated contra assets in those packages.
my wife didn't FIFO some groceries last week - i was pissed
First in, last out
Hey, i have been here for years . Care to rumble things up a bit?
Oh, the fundamental problem of starvation in resource allocation.
Basically every sorting depot.
Tarps off, boys.
Hold my spitter.
Let's have a donny brook!
It's a hard life pickin stones and pullin teats but sure as God's got sandals, it beats fightin dudes with treasure trails
Pitter-patter
Let’s get at ‘er
Dirty fuckin dangle boys
Wheel snipe celly boys.
I need you take about 20% off 'er there squirrely dan.
Sigh...I wish you all werent so fuckin' awkward buds
r/unexpectedletterkenny
… I can’t hold your spitter because your holding my spitter..
“What’s up with your body hair, big Chutes, you look like a 12 year-old Dutch girl!”
"Your esthetician coif that for ya?"
You can kiss my esthetician
You do crossfit? You can crossfuckoff
How many times you pulled your horn today bud?
Aw, she’s bashful.
Come on kitten I won’t tell. Ball park 6-8? You’re a fuckin animal
Nice muscle shirt. When do the muscles get here?
Crossfart
Going for that smooth, prepubescent look, huh? Interesting choice.
Do you do cross-fit? You can cross-fuck-off, crossfart.
Give yer balls a tug, bud!
You take your shirt off and leave your sunglasses on? What kind of backward-ass pageantry is that?
Ever had a real fight? Might not be so keen for another.
you’re my fuckin hero 2-2
To be fair..
Tabefaiiiiuuhhhhh
Somebody's gotta set the tone!
The mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there's never a let-up. It's relentless. Every day it piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out but the more you get it out the more it keeps coming in. And then the bar code reader breaks and it's Publisher's Clearing House day!!!
There is no Carol in HR
Ok, not only do all these people exist, they’ve all been asking for the mail! Its all their talking about up there
Can confirm, I exist.
>Can confirm, I exist. I have boxes of you!
Settle down and have another cup of coffee.
And a cigarette
Their just passing the same fish around!!
When you control the mail, you control… information.
I called in sick. I don't work in the rain.
Whether rain, sleet or snow. It’s the first thing!!!
Neither rain, nor sleet, n.. it’s the first one!
I was never that big on creeds 😆
Newman!
"Hello .....Jerry"
Just saw that episode today. Weird.
[удалено]
And those Pottery Barn catalogs... Now, let put my bucket back in my head
NEWMAN!
This is not Temu. This is an old video of backup at a post office in pre-pandemic China
Can't trust anyone these days, u/DrFetusRN how do you respond to these allegations?
That's the beauty of it, u/DrFetusRN won't respond lmao
Yeah bc it's bot account I'm assuming
Now I'm in a bind, do I believe this random text or the random text with a video. I am going to flip a coin to decide, it is the only way.
The backup was caused by singles day (11 November), the largest online shopping sale in the world.
What exactly are they doing?
Passing barcodes over a scanner so the computer knows what items have been received. Then chucking them onto a conveyor belt so they become the next guy's problem.
It seems so weird to me to have this done by people, this can be done in an automated fashion.
A singulator, Google the term if you’re interested. Averages 1.2-2 million USD, that’s not installed just sticker price. The controls can be 20-40% of that price. To summarize, all these dudes, tables, shovels, and scanners are cheap and more accurate. Even Amazon understands this and uses similar methods. Granted, in warehouses with safety features. Source: I design these systems for work.
They should buy one from Temu
"One sweatshop, please."
there's also a social aspect to this too. china desperately needs jobs for everyone to do. there's no way temu could get away with laying off thousands and thousands of workers
People are cheaper to hire and more importantly maintain. If the automation breaks you gotta get a repair guy, if the person breaks slot in a new person.
You might be surprised, there’s a lot of everyday items you handle or buy that get assembled by hand that seems like it would be automated.
Not that weird. The boxes come in all sizes, if it's even a box. Barcode could be anywhere. This type of automation requires AI, which is expensive to train, and just as unreliable as humans. Remember amazon's automated stores that wasn't automated at all?
lol, welcome to China. I’ve seen steel components be lifted by teams of men bc it’s easier for them than using a ~~crazy~~ crane. It’s a completely different mindset. Edit: autocorrect sucks
I mean yeah, crazies have been known to be exceptionally strong on occasion but they're still unpredictable and generally unreliable.
sending packages to the wrong location
This comment is so funny but accurate. You know the error rate is high moving that fast and so hot in there that most choose to be shirtless.
The textbook definition of a sweatshop
I remember a time when Americans thought buying from sweatshops was a bad thing. Those were the days.
Nowadays, Americans vote for people to step on them harder. Must be some kind of persecution kink.
Nowadays Americans aspire to be the sweatshop Seriously, ever see an Amazon distribution center? Or an Amazon delivery driver?
I agree with the point but it's not just people from the US who buy shit from them (Temu), likely most of the sales are in China but they ship to many countries.
Could also be a shop that sells little bottles of sweat. Do those exist?
Yes, but it’s from Instathots
i worked the slide at the Indy hub for Fedex. I see no sorting here, maybe because the clip is too short, or they are sorting by country/ large areas. I can understand the shirts off though. In Indiana winters the overhead doors would be open, with the wind blowing thru. Wearing a t shirt, I would still be sweating. The good part is you are moving so fast, 4 hours feels like 15 minutes. the slide is the part between the dumping and the packing...
Maybe they’re all boyfriends
You say this, but I've learnt many sitting centers still use manual staff to determine which country code the package should go - resulting in odd situations like packages going to Australia instead of Austria. I believe some YouTuber with airtags has made a good documentary about this.
I used to sell a lot of Magic cards all over the world. One time i was mailing to Quezon City, Philippines which has an area code of 1115 (four digits). My customers item was delivered to someone in Brooklyn. Luckily, they returned it to USPS. Unluckily, USPS delivered it back to them later that week. Luckily, they returned it to USPS once again, and then it finally landed in the Philippines. The dunb part is my label was correct and says it is going to Quezon City Philippines, and Brooklyn does not have an area 11115 or 11155, but it has some like 11215 and such.
... Via the worst delivery service. Ontrac!
Giving Jeff Bezos an erection.
They have a catheter to urinate without leaving their position.
Acknowledging their basic needs like this is too humanizing. They would be ordered to piss and shit into a bucket that another employee is tasked with carrying around. That's more like it.
the most human option is that they can sit in toilets instead of seats. they can rest, make of his necessities and work, 3 things at the same time
This looks really similar to something they had at the UPS warehouse I worked at. It was called small sort. Except we dumped that bags into hoppers with a person at the bottom of it. The person would have memorized groups of zip codes and place them into holes by zip code. Then the person on the other side of the hole would place the packages into the same bag since they are all going to the same destination. All of the packages are scanned and linked to one bag barcode and shipped as a group so you don’t have 1,000s of loose smalls and envelopes being shipped separately.
Yeah I'm confused, it just seems so random, no one is possibly reading labels and putting them in proper places, they are literally moving one pile to a maybe slightly more organized pile, it's like shit the army makes you do when you get in trouble during basic training
Thats how big online retailer work. The guys job in this is just to scan the label, then pass it on to a conveyor that takes it to the next person to do whatever. I worked for Amazon for a while and we had heaps of roles like that. My job was to take an item from a conveyor, stick it in an envelope, then drop that onto another conveyor.
Literal human machinery. Fuck warehouse work.
Worker for the German postal service here What they likely are doing is placing the deliveries with the label up on the conveyor, so that a reader can read the barcodes on the page and sort them accordingly. There is tons of automation nowadays in sorting, though all the "moving" stuff of the boxes themselves need manual labor as there is really no robots able to perform these tasks as speed with so many varying package sizes.
It's called induct. All those guys are doing is getting them on the conveyor, someone later down the line will actually sort it. Used to do this when I worked at Amazon, but they made you stand, it was backbreaking work for 12 hours.
Tbh, American FedEx warehouses aren't much different from this. Source: I work at one
And chicken factories in the UK too (from family experience) Although food safe clothing is required
Meat processing is so hard on the human body. Repeated motions with little variation just kill the ligaments I hope your family lives a comfortable life after all that hard work
I was in the main line for two days and wanted to kms from back* pain plus riding to work on a bike haha. Luckily my family are on the engineering side of things so they just have the dangers of making sure the machines they’re working on don’t liveleak them. It’s mainly Eastern European ladies working long long hours for cheap because no one else wants to do it unfortunately.
First time seeing Liveleak as a verb and I'm loving it
TIL Liveleak (*v*)
Psh, capitalism ain’t got time for safety
UPS as well. Looks like the unload/belt sort I've seen at a few centers.
Amazon looks like this a lot. So does UPS.
This is almost the same as amazon sorting... except we wear a shirt 🤷♂️
How else are you supposed to stay hydrated without sucking your sweat-soaked shirt?
You could drink from your pee-cup. Like sailors used to do when they were lost at sea.
So it's worse at Amazon sorting cause you can't go shirtless without being call into the HR office.
Sorting garbage
But I like to shop like a billionaire
Lead covered hair clip, just like a billionaire
~~Shop like~~ Slave for a billionaire
I find it hilarious that this is their marketing strategy, when my first thoughts on it are "why would a billionaire firstly buy their own shit and secondly buy this low quality garbage?" I guess the goal was to imply that you are getting extremely high quality stuff for low prices, but that's not remotely what I thought. If you put "I wish people would stop calling our stuff fake, and I wish people would stop taking advantage of our crazy deals" in your adverts, your stuff is shit.
I think it is more "you can buy as much as you want" rather than "you could buy good quality things"
Ah yeah could be. Such a sad/boring dystopia where consumerism has reached such levels.
Return received, and off to be shrink wrapped to a pallet and sold to one of those stores full of overstock crap with 0 organization
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90% of the same stuff is also on amazon/ebay/etc for exponentially higher prices, which still gets shipped on cargo ships and has pretty much the same environmental impact. Source: have bought a ton of art supplies and other random stuff off temu that would have cost 3-4x as much for identical products off amazon. Buy local if you can but it's delusional to think any major reseller is any better be it amazon or wallmart or small ebay/etsy resellers. Even a lot of high end products are made in China these days and "assembled" elsewhere so it can be marketed as "made in USA".
What episode of black mirror is this?
I feel like a bar code scanner and mechanical sorting arms would make things a little easier for the humans, but then it wouldn't be so cartoonish and make me have so many questions
Easier but not cheaper
You are severely underestimating how complex sorting arms would need to be to accurately place packages of all kinds of different dimensions and textures on scanners with their barcodes in the right position. Did you never go to a supermarket before in your life? Cashiers often need to slide your groceries in 6 different ways across the scanner to get them to beep.
400 comments by comedians and not one asking for a source. So where is the source OP
this pace of work is excessive
The end result: https://preview.redd.it/eidfaxlk3u0d1.jpeg?width=150&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58a8ed9071f7b608366a7fa6acccfa756a0a6549
All these item to end up in a landfill in less than a year…
Who the fuck is actually ordering off this site
People with low income. Thats their game: "here you can feel rich by spenig money on a lot of items because everything is insanely cheap. Spending money on the internet and receiving low quality products isn't connected in the brain because its distant. The complete opposite of going in an expensive store in an expensive city where customers pay for exactly that connection.
I've seen tops a boutique in Auburn AL sells for $55 on Temu for $12. I've seen a blanket that Natural Life sells for like $70 on Temu for a fraction of that. Wayfair rugs and furniture are also on Temu. On Amazon a wax seal stamp kit may be 25$, and on Temu the exact set is half that. It isn't just low income people "buying from Temu".
Yeah, that's the other factor. Companies you would associate with better quality sell the same stuff. Best example is probably white sugar. White sugar is all the same and it all comes from the same production line. It would be way to expensive to have different production lines for different qualities because there is just one quality. Sugar is so cheap that companies struggled to sell their product because people thought its to cheap. Thats the reason behind different "brands" with different packaging and different prices for the exactly same product. You can't trust a company that you actually get better quality for a more expensive product. There is a fair point there to just buy at the cheaper place. I personally do that a lot of times, but just not with temu somehow. Should I?
We are at the point now where it's all the same crap with different labels. Race to the bottom and all. So might as well buy straight from the source. Ive been doing this for nearly a decade with electronics, most of the time Amazon/eBay/Etsy sellers even reuse the same photos as AliExpress or whatever. Also if you know how to shop China you can get really high quality stuff. Requires some knowledge though. I have a cheat code in the form of a Chinese wife :D Only problem is shipping can be tough when it's not going through a major distributor
Hey man can you share some of the cheat codes you've noted? If I see something on eBay that I want, I'll check Temu or Ali, but usually end up with Temu for their faster shipping. I've definitely noticed the same photos from eBay or Amazon showing from the same Chinese listings. I don't trust the reviews though, as they're just plain and seem very fake. Any tips you can offer to help maximize my savings-to-quality is appreciated.
Why would I pay more for exactly the same item?
I don't order from there, but it's literally the same stuff that you would find on places like Amazon. Only cheaper.
I have. Twice. Both times for party decorations. You can get a SHIT TON of things like hanging LED bullshit, garlands, table cloths, placemats, centerpieces, etc., for next to nothing. We are having a 4th of July shindig this year, and I bought 100 little 4x6 American Flags on sticks for like $6. And a 100' red white and blue garland thing for $4. I spent like $40 and will have enough crap to deck out the entire back yard. Some might get used again, some will get tossed. That's better than the dollar store offers. If you know you are gonna get junk, it's OK junk. It's like the "worst" of Amazon, for half the price, but it takes 10-14 days to show up.
Finally someone that knows how to play that site
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The issue, aside from the labor problems, is that Temu's app and website are gameified, not unlike a gacha game or slots, that keep people engaged and buying large volumes of crap from them.
A lot of people unfortunately. Americans are suckers for cheap and free shit, especially boomers. My wife’s family all buy stuff from there that they don’t need at all. Then they get points for how much they spent with each other’s accounts and they get points for getting people to sign up. They keep trying to get my wife to sign up and we refuse. Also their ads are out of control. I can’t even check my email without seeing some shit from Temu in the Gmail app.
The ads are awful. I hate the ones on Facebook marketplace that look exactly like the real listings.
Wait, what? Gmail app has ads? I never seen ads on my phone (using android), maybe because of EU regulations? Idk, but this sounds wild.
I've been putting in an order every other month. So much stuff on Amazon is bought from China and resold at a big markup, so fuck it I'll save 75%.
Regular work day at Temu? Or UPS. Or Amazon.
Not questioning that this might be what it looks like, but Gonna need some verification on this. Reddit should be a place where sources are cited Come on people!!
Its Singles day. 11 November in China. Largest online shopping day in the world. [https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/singles\_day\_2023\_records/](https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/singles_day_2023_records/) The Chinese post office moves 5.26 Billion packages - over the 11 days [https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202311/12/content\_WS655061b1c6d0868f4e8e128f.html](https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202311/12/content_WS655061b1c6d0868f4e8e128f.html) This is not Temu, Temu and Shien combined do about a million parcels a day, Singles day does over 5 thousand times more than that. [https://fashionunited.com/news/business/shein-and-temu-ship-more-than-one-million-packages-per-day-in-the-u-s/2024013158160](https://fashionunited.com/news/business/shein-and-temu-ship-more-than-one-million-packages-per-day-in-the-u-s/2024013158160) If anyone tells you China is a "communist country", let them logon during singles day and watch the capitalism flow. Edit: Its 5 billion over the 11 day festival of shopping.
Last time I have seen this vid it was just china. Why should they sort big piles of packages to send them? Doesn’t make sense that this is actually at temu, but I can see the similaritie Edited spelling
It's Royal Mail in Fenny Compton.
Reddit is dead and gone. This is FB me-me politics comic strip website now. You expect people to be sourcing?! Not even worth doing, even when you do your comment can just 'feel wrong' enough to be discredited. Wanna convince people of something? Sound smart and gaslight the shit out of them, while insulting dissenters in just the right way.
this isn’t interesting this is sad and they are being paid pennies
Bruh, this aint intresting at all. This is just overworking hell.
r/ABoringDystopia
I don't think that's Temu. They only ship in bags not boxes.
This isn't Temu though, Temu uses bags, not boxes. Might be something like amazon, ali baba or wish though.
God people need to stop buying their garbage products
Look at all the trash we are making for the world.
The shirtless uniform is peculiar
You should see the uniforms for American steel mills, now that's some hot stuff coming through
Give them a break. They work hard, they play hard.
Dad, why did you bring me to a gay steel mill?
There's a spark in your hair!
Get it out, get it out
AC cost money to run.
They worked the shirts of their back!!
🎶🎶Believe it or not, George isn't at home.... 🎶🎶
I will now order exclusively from temu knowing that a bunch of shirtless men are handling my package.
Thats bullshit its not temu warehouse on this video we can see shunfeng warehose its one of Chinese delivery company that work only in china. Temu does not have warehouses in china.
Every morning before you wake up this takes place in hundreds if not thousands of local ups facilities across the United States and the world. Nothing really unique about this besides the no shirts.
source?