Temu, the Chinese shopping app, has exploded in popularity with over half a billion downloads worldwide. With the cost of living still high, its rock-bottom prices have enticed nine million UK users to download and shop on its app.
The Truth About Temu: Dispatches
Temu, the Chinese shopping app, has exploded in popularity with over half a billion downloads worldwide.
WATCH NOW15 million UK users shopped on TEMU
Channel 4 Dispatches investigates whether these bargain prices are too good to be true, uncovering evidence that some products on its website are made with high levels of harmful materials, with other items like climbing safety equipment and even electrical tools fraudulently advertised as holding recognised safety certificates.
Journalist Ellie Flynn travels across the UK to meet Temu shoppers and along the way uncovers evidence that suggests some customers have been offered financial settlements in exchange for silence when their products proved dangerous.
“Temu is the most downloaded shopping app in the UK, it's hugely popular - and that's no surprise because it's so, so cheap. I wanted to find out whether those low prices come at another cost, so I put Temu and some of its products to the test to find out whether there's any risk to shoppers using the platform.”
ELLIE FLYNN (DISPATCHES REPORTER)
REPORTED BY
ELLIE FLYNN
SENIOR PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
GRACE EVANS
HEAD OF PRODUCTION
NICOLA GRIFFITHS
PRODUCERS
LIAM CONNELL
SOPHIE EASTAUGH
PRODUCTION MANAGER
MEL MCCOWAN
EDITOR
EVELYN FRANKS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
JOSH REYNOLDS
BENJAMIN ZAND
CHARLIE MOLE
FILMED, PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY
JOHNNY MCDEVITT