As augmented by their own websites I assume. You lose the mass discoverability but you at least reduce the direct competition with volume, largely mass-manufactured goods.
Maybe it wasn’t obvious at the time but it certainly became so that your low-volume artisanal craft couldn’t sell alongside manufactured Chinese goods going for 10% the price.
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As augmented by their own websites I assume. You lose the mass discoverability but you at least reduce the direct competition with volume, largely mass-manufactured goods.
Maybe it wasn’t obvious at the time but it certainly became so that your low-volume artisanal craft couldn’t sell alongside manufactured Chinese goods going for 10% the price.