{"id":11781,"date":"2023-10-06T02:37:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T00:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/06\/addictive-absurdly-cheap-and-controversial-the-rise-of-chinas-temu-app\/"},"modified":"2023-10-06T02:37:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T00:37:51","slug":"addictive-absurdly-cheap-and-controversial-the-rise-of-chinas-temu-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/06\/addictive-absurdly-cheap-and-controversial-the-rise-of-chinas-temu-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Addictive, absurdly cheap and controversial: the rise of China\u2019s Temu app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temu\u2019s meteoric growth \u2013 and its astronomical marketing budget \u2013 has experts asking whether its business model is sustainable<\/p>\n<p>A chicken-shaped lamp. A toilet paper holder in the shape of a smiling velociraptor. An apron that catches beard hair during shaving. The list of unusual products goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Among the more everyday items are cleaning products, smartwatches, novelty T-shirts, knock-off sneakers and barbecue tools, but the common thread across all of them is that everything is incredibly, mindbogglingly cheap.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/06\/addictive-absurdly-cheap-and-controversial-the-rise-of-chinas-temu-app\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/aaac7f0d69953f29ed071f7d4bee406c3de07f9f\/0_0_2500_1500\/master\/2500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5ee075beb299a097e6c0c2bcabe081c9\" title=\"Addictive, absurdly cheap and controversial: the rise of China\u2019s Temu app\" \/>Temu\u2019s meteoric growth \u2013 and its astronomical marketing budget \u2013 has experts asking whether its business model is sustainable<br \/>\nA chicken-shaped lamp. A toilet paper holder in the shape of a smiling velociraptor. An apron that catches beard hair during shaving. The list of unusual products goes on.<br \/>\nAmong the more everyday items are cleaning products, smartwatches, novelty T-shirts, knock-off sneakers and barbecue tools, but the common thread across all of them is that everything is incredibly, mindbogglingly cheap. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temu\u2019s meteoric growth \u2013 and its astronomical marketing budget \u2013 has experts asking whether its business model is sustainable A chicken-shaped lamp. A toilet paper holder in the shape of a smiling velociraptor. An apron that catches beard hair during shaving. The list of unusual products goes on. Among the more everyday items are cleaning &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/06\/addictive-absurdly-cheap-and-controversial-the-rise-of-chinas-temu-app\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Addictive, absurdly cheap and controversial: the rise of China\u2019s Temu app<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}