What's wrong with Ikea?

Re:What's wrong with Ikea? by donw on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @08:24PM (#742507)

All I really get from this is that the author doesn't like cheap furniture. Which is fine... she can buy her furniture somewhere else, or build it herself.

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Re:What's wrong with Ikea? by cwan on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @08:34PM (#742524)

Megan McArdle is saying there's nothing wrong with buying Ikea (or any discount) furniture despite what Ellen Ruppel Shell argues in her new book "Cheap" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/159420215X)

Shell argues that buying Ikea (and our "discount" society as a whole) is immoral and costly.

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Re:What's wrong with Ikea? by tjogin on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @08:33PM (#742523)

Yeah, I was kind of puzzled too. Cheap furniture is of lower quality than expensive furniture is... you don't say?

I don't really get what the problem is. It's not an all or nothing deal — you can buy some items from Ikea and the rest of your stuff from somewhere else.

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