It’s like when I go to vendor halls at conventions and half the vendors any store that’s not a mega-department store all the items are repackaged aliexpress/temu items

ftfy

TBH, the US has been middle-manning economically depressed labor for cheap goods for decades. It just turns out that China is way better at it than we are.

Alibaba/express just made it a marketplace where companies could do it with zero friction.