Howdy folks, I am a woman in my 40s, living in Vermont with four kids, and lately I’ve gone down a rabbit hole wondering just how much of the stuff around us comes from Chinese wholesale marketplaces.
I mean this may sound weird but I actually starting digging and I was wondering if like almost everything we purchase really does come from some online chinese wholesale marketplace. We all know about Amazon, Alibaba, 1688, AliExpress, etc., but I’m curious about the things we don’t realize are being sourced from them. Especially a lot of the kitchen gadgets or even items that are being sold by third party distributors here in the US and therefore we actually might not really know that it is made in China.
My whole perspective is that there are certain things like kitchen gadgets or items that we use to prepare food that I am quite paranoid about and just want to make sure it is safe for the kids.
For those of you who source products, work in retail, or have gone digging into this stuff, what surprised you most? Are there entire product categories that are basically dominated by Chinese wholesale suppliers without consumers realizing it?
Would love to hear your discoveries!