BOSTON, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Temu has been included in USA TODAY's "America's Best Stores 2025" ranking. This list recognizes 500 companies—both brick-and-mortar and online—that offer exceptional shopping experiences in the United States. Temu is the youngest company in the "mass merchant and variety" category, joining established platforms such as Amazon and eBay.
The rankings, developed by USA Today in collaboration with research partner Plant-A Insights Group, were based on public data and a large-scale confidential online survey of U.S. customers. More than 65,000 customers contributed nearly half a million reviews, evaluating stores on several criteria:
- Product Quality and Variety
- Price-Value Ratio
- Safety and Trust
- Delivery and Shipping
- Customer Service
- Usability
- Website Design
To ensure reliability, respondents evaluated only stores they had personally used in the past three years. Companies with major data breaches, recalls, lawsuits, or ethical concerns were excluded.
Temu is popular for offering a wide selection of affordable, quality products, helping consumers stretch their budgets. American businesses have been joining Temu, attracted by opportunities to expand their reach and attract new customers. More than half of Temu's U.S. sales are now locally fulfilled, reflecting the company's efforts to offer more products by local businesses and shorten delivery times for consumers.
About Temu:
Temu is a global e-commerce company that connects consumers with millions of business partners, manufacturers, and brands with a mission to enable them to live a better life. Temu is committed to offering affordable products to enable consumers and business partners to realize their dreams in an inclusive environment. Temu began operations in the United States in September 2022 and is now available in more than 90 markets worldwide.
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Temu Recognized in USA TODAY's 2025 Best Stores List
SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A world-famous annual ice fishing festival kicked off Saturday in a remote mountain town in the northeastern province of Gangwon, offering weeks of ice fishing and seasonal activities.
The 2026 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival will run through Feb. 1 in Hwacheon, just 25 kilometers south of the inter-Korean border and about 90 km northeast of Seoul.
"Sancheoneo" is a species of trout known to live only in very clean fresh water.
Visitors from all over the nation arrived at the 300,000-square-meter festival ground -- roughly the size of around 40 football pitches -- from early morning.
"(We) will do our best to ensure safety and so that the Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival can become a winter festival enjoyed by everyone around the world beyond the Republic of Korea," Hwacheon Gov. Choi Moon-soon said at the opening ceremony.
This year's festival is expected to attract more than 100,000 foreign visitors, turning Hwacheon, with a population of 22,370, into a global wintertime festival city.
Launched in 2003, the event was chosen as the nation's best festival by the culture ministry in 2010 and had drawn more than 1 million visitors for 13 straight years, from 2006 to 2019.
Last year's event attracted over 1.86 million visitors, surpassing the previous record of 1.84 million set in 2019. Among the attendees, 122,000 were foreign visitors -- significantly higher than the 85,000 recorded the previous year.
The annual winter festival has previously made headlines worldwide, with thousands of tourists trying to fish for sancheoneo through holes cut into the surface of a vast frozen river and taking part in bare-hand fishing, sledding, ice soccer and other events.
Other hands-on activities that allow visitors to fully enjoy the snow and ice this year will include sledding on a 40-meter slope and on a 60-meter section of a frozen river, riding a family-friendly "ice bobsleigh" made by the Hwacheon County Office down a spiral-shaped tube, curling and figure skating.
The Seohwasan Multipurpose Indoor Plaza, another key venue of the festival, will feature a miniature version of the Harbin Ice and Snow World, a world-renowned ice and snow festival, while about 30 ice lantern makers from Harbin will showcase the pinnacle of ice art at the Indoor Ice Sculpture Plaza.
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World-renowned ice fishing festival kicks off in Hwacheon
