More good stuff from Europe that I hope will radically change
markets.
Quality is a huge issue. It's changed my shopping habits because it's
often better to simply go without than to buy cheap rubbish that lasts
a week and causes you more inconvenience than if you'd never had it. I
mostly buy vintage things that can be repaired now.
In the UK brands like Marks and Spencer used to make clothes that
lasted. Now they sell the same appallingly made sweatshop stuff. They
still have their famous returns policy, and honour it, but I'd rather
have something that lasts than something I can take back when it
breaks. Guess they have a procurement issue because quality is
uniformly low. Same with cheap electronic goods; pointless locked-down
IoT cruft that cannot be repurposed or fixed and is landfill fodder
straight after unboxing.
We're drowning in cheap manufactured goods whose short lifespan and
overhead (transport and disposal) dwarfs its functional utility.
Quality is a huge issue. It's changed my shopping habits because it's often better to simply go without than to buy cheap rubbish that lasts a week and causes you more inconvenience than if you'd never had it. I mostly buy vintage things that can be repaired now.
In the UK brands like Marks and Spencer used to make clothes that lasted. Now they sell the same appallingly made sweatshop stuff. They still have their famous returns policy, and honour it, but I'd rather have something that lasts than something I can take back when it breaks. Guess they have a procurement issue because quality is uniformly low. Same with cheap electronic goods; pointless locked-down IoT cruft that cannot be repurposed or fixed and is landfill fodder straight after unboxing.
We're drowning in cheap manufactured goods whose short lifespan and overhead (transport and disposal) dwarfs its functional utility.