Hundreds of merchants staged a rally at PDD Holdings Inc’s offices in southern China this week, protesting what they called unfair penalties that Temu’s owner is increasingly levying.
The suppliers, mainly smaller outfits that sell Chinese goods to Western shoppers via the fast-growing Temu platform, brandished placards and yelled slogans outside a Guangzhou company outpost Monday, according to attendees and videos circulated on social media. Some managed to get into Temu offices though they eventually dispersed without meeting senior executives, according to several witnesses, who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution.
