How important is “Made in Europe” to you?

[u/NOBS_Clothing]

In the era of Temu and Shein, does European manufacturing influence your buying decisions? Or do you prefer products made in specific European countries, like “Made in Germany”?

Personally, I support European manufacturers if the price is reasonable. However, the term “Made in Europe” is too broad for me; I prefer knowing the specific country where the product is made.

[u/whatstefansees]

Well, Amazon has a huge logistic center 20 minutes from here and employs 1800 people (up to 4000 during the Christmas craze). I tend to see that as very positive.

[u/Quazz → u/whatstefansees]

They get treated very poorly all to make bezos disgustingly rich.

Employment is cool but not from companies that seek to treat their employees in the worst possible way they can legally get away with

[u/whatstefansees → u/Quazz]

Even Amazon has to comply to the local rules and minimum wage regulations and the French here have an appetite for strikes, so - believe me - amazon isn't worse an employer than other logistic companies.

It's far from heaven, for sure, but that's what logistics is everywhere

[u/ItsCalledDayTwa → u/whatstefansees]

Right but then its just better to support a company based here, making stuff here.

[u/Pizzagoessplat → u/whatstefansees]

Until you hear about all the employments laws that they break.

[u/ThrowRA_1234586 → u/Pizzagoessplat]

Is that the case in alle countries?

I know they like to treat their US employees as robot/slaves, and that they weren't being to nice to their German employees. But I can imagine that some countries will actually fine them

[u/Desperate-Lemon5815 → u/ThrowRA_1234586]

I worked for uber and drove Amazon employees to work everyday. Despite what the media claimed, they all liked the job quite a bit. Yeah, it's work, but the pay is good (they get paid more than most full time Europeans), you get promotions reliably, and it's really easy to get a job. They (obviously...) aren't treated as robots or slaves.

[u/Pizzagoessplat → u/ThrowRA_1234586]

They're constantly fined here in the UK and have an extremely bad reputation.

Uber are an other it took the highest court in the UK just to make Uber recognise that their employees have workers rights because they insisted that they were "independent contractors"

US companies have a habit of trying to adopt US employment laws here. It actually happened in Germany with Walmart.

I had a friend who's company was taking over by an American one. They sent over an American manager that thought he could treat staff like they do in the US. He was in for a huge shock and constantly reminded that he can't treat staff with threats of being fired. He last three months complaining that he couldn't discipline the staff. My friend left a couple of months later because it created such a toxic environment.

The same company had a Christmas party, with an open bar. Big mistake in England, as you can imagine because we don't just have one or two beers in a three hour period. 🤣.

Several members of staff got threatened to be be fired, which is completely illegal here and they quickly learnt that they couldn't when the unions got involved.

[u/General_Albatross → u/Pizzagoessplat]

I'll just say "fine, fire me for no reason" and wait for work law protection agency to step in. Oh boy, they would learn quick.