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It's not particularly difficult but nor is it particularly fun. I certainly don't plan to assemble the furniture for my next apartment myself.
But is that because you'll pay someone to assemble similar furniture, or because you'll buy better furniture that isn't just IKEA flat-packs?
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There are people who don't care to build their own Ikea furniture? How strange! I've always enjoyed building my own Ikea furniture! :)
Agreed. I'm not sure where the misconception of their furniture being difficult to build comes from. In my experience their instructions are unambiguous and well-designed.
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I seem to remember a survey that showed people who assembled their own Ikea furniture valued it higher than people who didn't.
That is strange. Even as a Swede I would probably value a Billy more if it came pre assambled, so I was not made actively aware of low quality materials and holes drilled in not-quite-the-right places. Maybe a cultural thing. I always got the impression IKEA is more respected in other countries, while in Sweden it is seen as cheap furniture owned by everyone.
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Actually, lots of stores are removing self-checkouts nowadays. They tend to be a lot slower than cashiers, lead to more theft, and few people like to use them anyway.
One of those frustrating problems that's already solved, but in pieces too widely scattered to do anyone any good.
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It may be that they have mostly saturated in the markets where they think they are competitive.
i doubt it. i think america is just huge, and that they can't responsibly expand too fast. remember, ikea is expanding globally. on my last vacation, i saw an ikea identical to the one by my house in california, in southern germany. that's really sort of unprecedented at the scale of an ikea store.
And they're expanding mainly with their own money. They're a family-owned company without outside investors. Ingvar Kamprad is pretty economically conservative.
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There are people who don't care to build their own Ikea furniture? How strange! I've always enjoyed building my own Ikea furniture! :)
I seem to remember a survey that showed people who assembled their own Ikea furniture valued it higher than people who didn't.
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I seem to remember a survey that showed people who assembled their own Ikea furniture valued it higher than people who didn't.
That is strange. Even as a Swede I would probably value a Billy more if it came pre assambled, so I was not made actively aware of low quality materials and holes drilled in not-quite-the-right places. Maybe a cultural thing. I always got the impression IKEA is more respected in other countries, while in Sweden it is seen as cheap furniture owned by everyone.
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Any idea why? I've never seen a store add them and then remove them.
Actually, lots of stores are removing self-checkouts nowadays. They tend to be a lot slower than cashiers, lead to more theft, and few people like to use them anyway.
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There are people who don't care to build their own Ikea furniture? How strange! I've always enjoyed building my own Ikea furniture! :)
Agreed. I'm not sure where the misconception of their furniture being difficult to build comes from. In my experience their instructions are unambiguous and well-designed.
Seriously, at that time the instructions came in gibberish with extremely weird illustrations and you were usually wondering why you had surplus screws.
The design of IKEA furniture at that time was, let's just say, a lot more rustic too.
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That's a problem in the logistics industry as a whole. Nobody owns anything and everybody has a subcontractor.
We have a concept here in Denmark, which directly translated would be "total contractor", which is a person who manages all the different contractors, schedules when they show up and do their work, handles any problems that arise during the project, and all the billing goes through him, so you get a single invoice at the end. I imagine every country has a similar concept, I'm just not aware of the name in English.