I hope they keep the ability to hire tasks other than furniture assembly! I use Taskrabbit at least every week. They are our operations team!
How do you use them? And what prices do you typically pay for the services you use?
Ikea has bought TaskRabbit
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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! :)
My parents, who do small-scale construction and decorating, get non-trivial numbers of enquiries about fixing people's poorly-assembled Ikea furniture.
The problem - is simply dimensions..
I had a ikea desk, which is simply not deep enough - when i sit on it, my hands palm are on the border of the desk. You can not work this way.
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It is cheap, and it do not hold up well - but that is why it is cheap.
It's not all rubbish, I've got a solid wood kitchen table from them which is already quite a few years old and looks like it will last a long time.
Their solid wood and better-than-usual-finish furniture are not cheap though. So that goes out the window.
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#174This is hilarious/perfect to me personally, because I have only ever used TaskRabbit to hire someone to build Ikea furniture.
LOL.
I enjoy building Ikea products. It is adult LEGO for your home etc.
But, smart play by Ikea I would have to say.
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Huh, that's surprising. Two of the three supermarkets near me have phased out cashiers almost entirely.
Around where I live, beside Walmart Superstores, those supermarkets that added some self-checkout have since removed them. Self-checkout is such an abysmal experience in supermarkets especially if you buy things like produce that I'll actively avoid any store that uses them extensively. I have less of a problem in convenience-type stores but I'm usually not buying much stuff and rarely produce.
Maybe it's differing design of machines or something. The only time I'll use a manned checkout these days is if I'm buying alcohol. Otherwise, the automatic one is generally far quicker, and there are usually far more of them.
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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.
Ikea wants 2 million people within 60 miles of a store, apparently, though they've started experimenting with smaller stores in smaller markets.
http://blog.syracuse.com/at-home/2009/11/no_ikea_here_not_ev...
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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.
Ikea furniture and instructions are Lego of the furniture world. Anyone with half a brain and some patience can assemble it.
I also like that you don't need to be a literate person to assemble their furniture (wordless instructions).
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#179This is hilarious/perfect to me personally, because I have only ever used TaskRabbit to hire someone to build Ikea furniture.
There are people who don't care to build their own Ikea furniture? How strange! I've always enjoyed building my own Ikea furniture! :)
It's a meme that a couple who assembles Ikea furniture together is jeopardizing their relationship.