JERISS — Retail shelf notes https://jeriss.com/news/ Short observation notes from reading face towel product pages in six retail markets. Figures are counts of what a page displayed, not market shares. en 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0800 jeriss-static Four of 121 face towel listings printed a GSM number https://jeriss.com/news/gsm-not-on-the-label/ https://jeriss.com/news/gsm-not-on-the-label/ 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0800 Specification We read 121 retail product pages across six markets in October 2026. GSM, the number buyers ask for first, showed up on four of them. A fiber name is not a fiber recipe https://jeriss.com/news/fiber-names-versus-fiber-recipes/ https://jeriss.com/news/fiber-names-versus-fiber-recipes/ 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0800 Materials 81 of 121 pages named a fiber. Forty-four gave a ratio you could actually specify from. One UK page lists two different fibers for the same towel https://jeriss.com/news/one-uk-listing-two-compositions/ https://jeriss.com/news/one-uk-listing-two-compositions/ 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0800 Specification Mysa World's specification table says polyester and cotton, plain. The description says plant fiber, pearl. Both are on the same page. A size label is half a specification https://jeriss.com/news/sheet-size-labels-need-a-second-number/ https://jeriss.com/news/sheet-size-labels-need-a-second-number/ 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0800 Sizes Sixty-nine of 121 pages gave a size you could compare. Korea managed four. Japan managed nineteen of nineteen. Fifty sheets is the default pack, except in Japan and Korea https://jeriss.com/news/fifty-sheets-is-the-default/ https://jeriss.com/news/fifty-sheets-is-the-default/ 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0800 Packaging Base-pack count appeared on 110 of 121 pages. The median was 50 in four markets and 60 in two. Eighteen names for five kinds of pack https://jeriss.com/news/packaging-vocabulary-has-no-standard/ https://jeriss.com/news/packaging-vocabulary-has-no-standard/ 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0800 Packaging Forty-nine pages described their packaging. The words they used rarely matched each other. A 300 count and a zero price: two ways a unit price goes wrong https://jeriss.com/news/three-hundred-counts-and-a-zero-price/ https://jeriss.com/news/three-hundred-counts-and-a-zero-price/ 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0800 Buying Two US listings in the panel would break an automated price comparison. Neither seller did anything unusual. In the UAE, half the price-per-sheet pairs came from purchase agents https://jeriss.com/news/uae-price-per-sheet-and-purchase-agents/ https://jeriss.com/news/uae-price-per-sheet-and-purchase-agents/ 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0800 Markets Seventeen valid pairs. Eight of them sit on channels that buy abroad and resell locally. The median moves when you separate them. A page in German is not a German listing https://jeriss.com/news/a-german-page-that-ships-from-the-uk/ https://jeriss.com/news/a-german-page-that-ships-from-the-uk/ 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0800 Markets One Beauty Bay page is written in German, priced in pounds, and ships from the UK. It never entered the German panel. China's shelf: hanging packs, 180 sheets, and almost no GSM https://jeriss.com/news/chinas-shelf-skips-gsm/ https://jeriss.com/news/chinas-shelf-skips-gsm/ 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0800 Markets Eleven records, kept separate from the international panel. Two of them state a weight, and both say 80 GSM.