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[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Ok but did they spin up their own shirt printing company in another country using one third of their investment money to print them or did they just pay a shirt printing service that already existed at a bulk discount rate?

[–] herescunty@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

Exactly. Even Google, who have piles and piles of cash just sitting around and could easily afford it, don’t move into the printing business to save a few bucks. They just contract some company who offer that kind of thing as a service to arrange it for them. The company I worked for don’t even print the t-shirts, they just arrange the printing via a range of companies who do offer such a service. Everyone in between takes a little cut and Google still get their t-shirts at like £5 each.

Google love a t-shirt. Sold more t-shirts to Google than any other client by a mile and a half.