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What Next TBD: Shein’s Newest Offering? An IPO

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Fast-fashion titan Shein is preparing for its initial public offering, even as questions of sustainability and labor practices linger. Guest: Jordyn Holman, business reporter covering the retail industry and consumerism for The New York Times If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I hope you guys are ready for the biggest Ian Hall ever because I did a lot of

0:09.7

damage last week and it finally came in so let's get started.

0:14.0

If you're a woman of a certain age, let's say under 30,

0:18.0

you are probably intimately familiar with Sheehan Hall's on Tik-Toc.

0:22.0

Searching that hashtag, Sheehan Hall, or any of

0:25.3

that's holiday variants, will spit out a predictable genre.

0:29.3

You would probably see a young woman in her bedroom unboxing lots and lots of clothes or eyelashes or what

0:39.0

have you from Shee in and it's usually a video of let me show you what I got from my latest Sheehan Hall and they're holding up

0:46.8

Whatever the latest item is and just telling the viewer how inexpensive it is that's Jordan Holman who covers the retail the Fast Fashion Giant has turned retail on its head, especially for a demographic that wants

1:06.2

things cheap and wants them now.

1:07.7

Well you could get like eyelashes, know the fake eyelashes a whole bundle of them for like five dollars probably even cheaper

1:18.2

You could get a t-shirt for maybe five dollars bikini for10, things along those lines,

1:25.0

where it's like eye-popping prices.

1:28.0

If I told you what I paid for everything in this box,

1:30.0

you wouldn't even believe it.

1:32.0

She has having an insane home sale right now with items

1:34.8

starting at literally six cents. These videos are not an accident, not a byproduct of random consumer

1:42.4

enthusiasm. They're a core part of random consumer enthusiasm.

1:44.0

They're a core part of Sheehan's strategy to reach shoppers and say,

1:48.0

buy this thing right now.

1:50.0

You want new outfits to go on your vacation or you want new outfits to show up in your

1:55.6

you know tic-toc videos and Instagrams and she and has become that place that go-to place that people think of

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