Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

It's just amazing how practically all of the people shilling for this subversive Chinese garbage are non whites or fat white women. It's artistic, really. Perfectly encapsulates modern society.
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SHIT. It's SHIT. You're spending your paycheck on GARBAGE.

What’s temu? Is it that cheap Chinese knock off shit/ super fake future shit that you see on Amazon randomly?
I'm trying to figure out what the difference is between that and Wish. It looks like the same website, different name.
Temu and Wish are technically different companies, but since it's China, they're still all part of the CCP collective.
Temu > Pinduoduo > PDD Holdings > CCP
Wish > ContextLogic Inc. (USA) > Ties to China

Temu also features certain addicting features such as that wheel they mentioned earlier, "games" that are just layers of gambling, etc.
 
I want to root for the smaller businesses also, and I am mindful to spend my money where possible in independent businesses.

I am curious to dig in to the last part though. This is not a business that sells pointless pieces of plastic to collect for no reason, or a business that seeks to addict people to some kind of gambling mechanic, whether for money, digital goods or further plastic bullshit, it is a business that sells useful products to solve real-world problems that home owners and tradesmen encounter all the time. I'm interested in why you'd characterise that business as evil.

TLDR: once companies get to a certain size they're a local economic vampire beholden to shareholders every quarter.

It's not the business in itself that is evil. What Home Depot and Lowes ultimately sell is useful and harmless on its own. It's the clear attempt to create a cradle-to-grave level of brand loyalty to the mega corporation that bothers me. Large firms, such as those two (and walmart, target, etc) all do it in some way. Smaller businesses, despite not always having what you need as another poster mentioned, is much better at driving the economy forward and employment compared to the large enterprises. They're also local economic tax suckers. A small block of local businesses, with the shitty parking that can never fit the amount of customers who actually go in, makes significantly more in local tax revenue compared to the big box lot down the road. The mega corporation does not care about teaching kids, it most likely got put into place for some sort of tax write off and brand loyalty. You had fun at Home Depot, not Lowes, etc, so your first instinct when you need to DIY for the first time is to go there. Them pretending to care about kids and the local community "we're your friend" is just soulless marketing.

Our natural and understandable desire for everything easy and in one place got us here. I shop at all of them too, mostly because locally any non-big box competition has pretty much been ran out. I don't hate them, and you can't stop them at this point because they're just too convenient, but doesn't mean I have to like what they do. There's a bigger laundry list but I'm not ready to bring out the tin foil hat and conspiracy board in the consoomer thread.

Fun fact: Lowes and Home Depot have roughly 19-20% of their shares held by the same 4 firms. None of them are major obviously, just find it interesting.
 
TLDR: once companies get to a certain size they're a local economic vampire beholden to shareholders every quarter.

It's not the business in itself that is evil. What Home Depot and Lowes ultimately sell is useful and harmless on its own. It's the clear attempt to create a cradle-to-grave level of brand loyalty to the mega corporation that bothers me. Large firms, such as those two (and walmart, target, etc) all do it in some way. Smaller businesses, despite not always having what you need as another poster mentioned, is much better at driving the economy forward and employment compared to the large enterprises. They're also local economic tax suckers. A small block of local businesses, with the shitty parking that can never fit the amount of customers who actually go in, makes significantly more in local tax revenue compared to the big box lot down the road. The mega corporation does not care about teaching kids, it most likely got put into place for some sort of tax write off and brand loyalty. You had fun at Home Depot, not Lowes, etc, so your first instinct when you need to DIY for the first time is to go there. Them pretending to care about kids and the local community "we're your friend" is just soulless marketing.

Our natural and understandable desire for everything easy and in one place got us here. I shop at all of them too, mostly because locally any non-big box competition has pretty much been ran out. I don't hate them, and you can't stop them at this point because they're just too convenient, but doesn't mean I have to like what they do. There's a bigger laundry list but I'm not ready to bring out the tin foil hat and conspiracy board in the consoomer thread.

Fun fact: Lowes and Home Depot have roughly 19-20% of their shares held by the same 4 firms. None of them are major obviously, just find it interesting.
In Australia, the Bunnings chain has basically destroyed all smaller hardware stores. They're cheap and have a huge range, but since there is nowhere else to go, if they drop a particular product you're screwed. Example: they stopped stocking most colours of the small tins of enamel paint meant for furniture and other small projects a ways back. Last I checked, all nearby stores and the website only stock black, white and red. At some point I'm probably going to have to scrape up a fair stack of cash and have the colour I need custom blended if I ever want to finish a cabinet that I've been 'working on' for years now.

Smaller stores have the advantage of being able to choose their own stock instead of relying on the body corporate, but as a result they cost a lot more. As a consoomer, you're trapped either way.
 
In Australia, the Bunnings chain has basically destroyed all smaller hardware stores. They're cheap and have a huge range, but since there is nowhere else to go, if they drop a particular product you're screwed. Example: they stopped stocking most colours of the small tins of enamel paint meant for furniture and other small projects a ways back. Last I checked, all nearby stores and the website only stock black, white and red. At some point I'm probably going to have to scrape up a fair stack of cash and have the colour I need custom blended if I ever want to finish a cabinet that I've been 'working on' for years now.

Smaller stores have the advantage of being able to choose their own stock instead of relying on the body corporate, but as a result they cost a lot more. As a consoomer, you're trapped either way.
I hope someday you finish your cabinet, soldier.
 
I looked up Temu to see how it's possible for them to sell things so cheap and found this:
Slow shipping, risks of lost items and poor customer service. Doesn't even sound worth it.
 
I looked up Temu to see how it's possible for them to sell things so cheap and found this:
Slow shipping, risks of lost items and poor customer service. Doesn't even sound worth it.
Anything you get shipped straight from China, always take months to get. Wish shit ships straight for China and that’s why people get their package in months (if they even get it).
 
First bitch has a product break on her, the second one in the video and admits she already bought the same trash before on Amazon and it broke then. She bought the exact same shit again just to generate more trash. ???

Second one apparently has kids, already horrifying, and bought shoes for them on this service. Random knicknacks is stupid but you're risking them because you want to cheap out. Mindless.
 
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The more I learn about Geekvolution the more I think I found a possible undiscovered lulzcow. Not only does this guy look like every Reddit meme that came to life. His whole life revolves around superhero consumerism. Buying superhero toys is like a religion to his atheist self. Adam West Batman is his Jesus to the point he raises his son to be an Adam West Batman fan. Consumerism is like America's true state religion. If Adam West Batman his god. Spawn and Todd McFarlane, his devil and anti-Christ. He spent a whole year shitting on spawn on YouTube. Including dressing his kid as Adam West Batman pretending to attack Spawn and Todd McFarlane.
 
TLDR: once companies get to a certain size they're a local economic vampire beholden to shareholders every quarter.

It's not the business in itself that is evil. What Home Depot and Lowes ultimately sell is useful and harmless on its own. It's the clear attempt to create a cradle-to-grave level of brand loyalty to the mega corporation that bothers me. Large firms, such as those two (and walmart, target, etc) all do it in some way. Smaller businesses, despite not always having what you need as another poster mentioned, is much better at driving the economy forward and employment compared to the large enterprises. They're also local economic tax suckers. A small block of local businesses, with the shitty parking that can never fit the amount of customers who actually go in, makes significantly more in local tax revenue compared to the big box lot down the road. The mega corporation does not care about teaching kids, it most likely got put into place for some sort of tax write off and brand loyalty. You had fun at Home Depot, not Lowes, etc, so your first instinct when you need to DIY for the first time is to go there. Them pretending to care about kids and the local community "we're your friend" is just soulless marketing.

Our natural and understandable desire for everything easy and in one place got us here. I shop at all of them too, mostly because locally any non-big box competition has pretty much been ran out. I don't hate them, and you can't stop them at this point because they're just too convenient, but doesn't mean I have to like what they do. There's a bigger laundry list but I'm not ready to bring out the tin foil hat and conspiracy board in the consoomer thread.

Fun fact: Lowes and Home Depot have roughly 19-20% of their shares held by the same 4 firms. None of them are major obviously, just find it interesting.
You're not wrong. For me, I go to hardware stores like Lowes for my work, stuff like grinding blades, and to be fair, the only competition in the area in the area at this point is: home depot, ACE, and harbor freight. Everything else that's smaller, fucking gone. If there  were other options, id shop at them.
 
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The more I learn about Geekvolution the more I think I found a possible undiscovered lulzcow. Not only does this guy look like every Reddit meme that came to life. His whole life revolves around superhero consumerism. Buying superhero toys is like a religion to his atheist self. Adam West Batman is his Jesus to the point he raises his son to be an Adam West Batman fan. Consumerism is like America's true state religion. If Adam West Batman his god. Spawn and Todd McFarlane, his devil and anti-Christ. He spent a whole year shitting on spawn on YouTube. Including dressing his kid as Adam West Batman pretending to attack Spawn and Todd McFarlane.
i am baffled this person has been able to breed
 
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This is probably a consoomer's worst nightmare.
I mean, it's karma. Dude has clearly gotten the bookshelves specially built in, I think. Don't think it would fit perfectly into the walls unless. He could've easily gotten sliding doors to them, and the worst that would happen. Is some finger marks on the glass.
 
Something else weird with Temu: They share a lot of content on their channel that's in different styles; this includes reshares, videos with actors, etc.
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This means a video from the official Temu account could show up on someone's page, and unless they're paying attention to the username, they'll think it's just "natural" suggested content, or some other account, rather than a single company spamming content.

E.g. Unless you were paying attention, could you tell these videos were all from the same account?





I looked up Temu to see how it's possible for them to sell things so cheap and found this:
Slow shipping, risks of lost items and poor customer service. Doesn't even sound worth it.
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wow I'm shocked. So shocked, wow.

Anything you get shipped straight from China, always take months to get. Wish shit ships straight for China and that’s why people get their package in months (if they even get it).
Part of Temu's selling point is that you get shit faster than other Chinese apps, but that just means you're buying something that's in the US being stored in a shipping container at some depot somewhere. Anything not already in the states is going to be shipped same as any other Chinese plasticrap, which explains the wildly different reported arrival times.

First bitch has a product break on her, the second one in the video and admits she already bought the same trash before on Amazon and it broke then. She bought the exact same shit again just to generate more trash. ???

Second one apparently has kids, already horrifying, and bought shoes for them on this service. Random knicknacks is stupid but you're risking them because you want to cheap out. Mindless.
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.​
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.​
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.​
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”​

Unfortunately, the Vimes Boots Theory does not hold when people are buying cheap, breakable shit they don't need.
I understand the logic behind this woman buying cheap, potentially-dangerous shoes for her kids when she has limited funds, but she also purchased things like a plastic phone stand and an empty hand sanitizer bottle.

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This is probably a consoomer's worst nightmare.
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First word is "Doomsday" (lol) but what's "sugro"?
 
What do consoomers do when they eventually run out of space to store their junk?
real hoarders hoard until they have no quality of life left and can't even move freely in their own home. They die buried in the middle of it surrounded by piles of bozes and lie there until someone calls the fire department about the smell or the landlord opens the door and finds them because a lot of these people are not even home owners
 
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