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Temu Will Reach $30 Billion in US Sales This Year
“The popular marketplace, which eMarketer estimates will sell thirty billion dollars of products to U.S. Shoppers this year, became an alternative to Amazon, as well as retail chains such as Hobby Lobby, Party City, and Dollar Stores.”
Shein and Temu Did Not Lobby for the De Minimis Loophole
“The reason that the de minimis loophole exists, it was not, this is not something that Sheen and Timu lobbied for, and then, oh, they got lucky and they knew that this was going to be a thing.”
Temu and Shein's Share of Meta Ad Spend Has Already Peaked
“And so this quarter did turn out to be the peak of Timu and Sheen's share of Meta advertising around Under seven percent on Facebook and just under four percent on Instagram, and they're down to around four percent and two percent respectively now.”