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

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 27 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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0:42.3	So let's get started.
0:44.9	If you're a woman of a certain age, let's say under 30, you are probably intimately familiar with Sheehan Halls on TikTok.
0:52.6	Searching that hashtag Sheehan Hall or any of its holiday
0:55.7	variants will spit out a predictable genre. You would probably see a young woman in her bedroom
1:03.4	unboxing lots and lots of clothes or eyelashes or what have you from Sheehan.
1:11.1	And it's usually a video of, let me show you what I got from my latest Sheehan hall.
1:15.3	And they're holding up whatever the latest item is and just telling the viewer how inexpensive it is.
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