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Re:IKEA to buy back used furniture in recycling push by throwawasdf on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:26AM (#24825689)
> wasn't cheaper than hiring local custom kitchen company for similar materials

Only if you value your time at 0. If you value your time at more than that, the time it takes to get a contractor and back and forth with him to agree on a design etc makes it more expensive, since with Ikea you pretty much opt into a generic solution of one-size-fits-all.

I agree it's not for everyone; though I wouldn't say it's the McDonalds of furniture – this would IMO be Poco (https://www.poco.de/); also I'm saying that as someone who doesn't eat McDonalds :-D

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Re:IKEA to buy back used furniture in recycling push by reader_mode on Monday October 19, 2020 @10:38AM (#24826766)
IKEA is McDonald's in terms of global presence and consistency and catering towards budget spectrum
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