DETERMINANT China Market Map

PART ONE

The brands themselves

Every brand we studied, plotted on price. Each dot is one brand, and its colour is one of the seven models set out below. Pick a question and the map answers it.

Which garment

Pick a question

Or set the axes yourself

Narrow it down

How to read this. Each dot is a brand. Further right means customers pay more for the selected garment. Higher up means more of whatever the vertical axis measures. Colour is the model it uses to hold its price, set out in Part Two below. Click any dot for that brand's full garment ladder, its sources and how much we trust each one.

The five price bands · who sells here, and how much money changes hands

PART TWO

Seven ways a brand holds its price

Prices are read-only here. They live in data/price-cells.jsonl, which is append-only, so a price typed into a browser would either be lost on the next regeneration or quietly fork the source of truth. To change a price, append a cell to the JSONL and run node data/gen-price-cells.mjs --write. Hover any garment cell for the SKU, channel, date and confidence behind it. Amber = a proxy or weak reading that needs re-checking before it is quoted; grey = priced in a currency we hold no working rate for.

Everything else is editable. Type into a cell and the edit saves in this browser and shows on the map immediately; click Download brands.js and replace the file in the project folder to make it permanent. Grey cells = still to collect. Cyan cells = edited here, not yet in the file.