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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

which country were you working at decathlon in?

I've been to them all over the world, and their manufacturing bases decentralized, so I'm wondering if one country has worse quality items than the others.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was Decathlon France back in 2015. Well, it's maybe more than "few years", things may have changed now

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

thanks, I'm going to look up News archives and see what was going on a decade ago in France that might indicate worse quality there.

that's just about my heyday with decathlon, but I was in China. the quality across the stores there was consistent.