It's Tuesday, October 10th.

Welcome to the Tech Check podcast.

I'm Giergerbosa.

And I'm Mark Gilbert.

Dee.

The story today, it feels like it's Amazon, it's Prime Day,

and the theme that we've been hitting on all this competition in the discount space

You know I had to go back and think how many prime days have we had this year this is the second one and I got to tell you

It's getting harder to keep track of all of them and then there's these copycat shopping promotions

Target I think it's called Circle Day Walmart there's others but today is the official start of Amazon's deal day and something that I find kind of funny

when we were looking at the space is that the Chinese apps they don't even bother with any of these things.

Every day is deal day for Tymu and she and

she and Shion shoppers and so far that has been an incredibly highly effective strategy.

Yeah and then there's there's data to back this up, right, which shows that, you know, if you look at usage,

especially in the US, TIMU is growing leaps and bounds to reach, you know, parity with Amazon right now.

In absolute numbers, of course, you know, Amazon is still a much more penetrated app and has has higher users but if you look at growth if you look at downloads of the apps

you know Timu she and Tik-Tock are catching up.

And I would argue that growth is really what's important here

because T-Moo is an app that just launched a year ago.

It's made all of these inroads.

And then if you look at how quickly Tiamu, which is owned by Chinese company

Pinduoduwuwuwu grew against Alibaba. Remember, Alibaba was the dominant player there, but

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