She-in is a Chinese clothes retailer that is effectively the fastest of fast fashion. It consistently top surveys as a Gen Z favorite in the West, despite being criticized for waste. The young generation has virtually invented quick commerce according to David Walliams. He says businesses need to engage with these shoppers as individuals and take risks.
The country remains riven by unrest since the “self-coup” and subsequent arrest of its president in December; only an early election might bring a return to calm. Our correspondent goes shopping to discover the spending habits of Generation Z and millennials. And examining the work of Tom Lehrer, a mathematician who was an unlikely midwife at the birth of modern satire.
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