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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by vidoc on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:32AM (#25929398)
> I never understood why people hate IKEA

Besides not providing the most durable furniture, albeit at the most competitive price and reasonably good looking designs, they've had a few PR disasters over the years like this one :p

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/02/25/172869585/ho...

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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by kwhitefoot on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:46AM (#25929616)
Pretty much everyone in Europe was caught up in the horse meat scandal. I suspect that IKEA was not the one at fault here. The horse meat was inserted into the supply chain right at the slaughtering stage.
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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by vidoc on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:57AM (#25930529)
> I suspect that IKEA was not the one at fault here

That's right, if I recall correctly, for some reason the press really obsessed about IKEA and another steakhouse chain whose name I forgot.

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