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Chinese Manufacturing Support I'm Aaron Alpeter. I'm a supply chain expert who helps founders start, scale, and exit their businesses. Let's answer your questions from the internet. This is "Chinese Manufacturing Support." How is Temu so cheap? DLVermeer asked, "How is Temu so cheap? Me trying to figure out how Temu can afford a commercial every break when my cart of 104,564 items cost 90 cents. Answer, your information is more valuable than the items." It used to be for the longest time that China and Chinese factories would produce everything, but the brands were Western. People wanted something that denoted quality, something that was familiar to them. And so, even though it may be completely produced in China, if it had Nike, or Adidas, or something like that, you felt better about it. What Temu has done is it's not really a marketplace, it's actually a demand aggregation platform. Think about this, they're going to these factor...