Why IKEA Is Fed Up with Russia
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Why IKEA Is Fed Up with Russia
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Re: Why IKEA Is Fed Up with Russia
#2It is an interesting article, but why is it posted on HN?
Re: Why IKEA Is Fed Up with Russia
#3It is an interesting article, but why is it posted on HN?
Might it be because it's an interesting article?
Re: Why IKEA Is Fed Up with Russia
#4Ну и пусть пиздуют со своим китайским барахлом ломающимся.
Seriously: you want to have a business in the country, a profitable and fast-growing one, yet you have complaints about the process. I guess, either shove it or leave.
In Moscow, there was an accident when an aquapark full of people collapsed due to bad engineering and construction, too. So, maybe those delays aren't just corruption? Also: In South Korea, there's a history of mall collapsing under its weight due to poor engineering and exploitation;
The bottom line is: If it would be corruption alone, they'd bribe and move on; they're huge. So, it's not just corruption. And as of stopping investments, maybe they're just out of money in their Sweden?
"The retailer has become such an icon of Russia's boom that today's yuppies are called "the Ikea Generation."" This is crap, never heard anything remotely like that. Perhaps stop making things up?
Re: Why IKEA Is Fed Up with Russia
#5Ну и пусть пиздуют со своим китайским барахлом ломающимся. Seriously: you want to have a business in the country, a profitable and fast-growing one, yet you have complaints about the process. I guess, either shove it or leave. In Moscow, there was an accident when an aquapark full of people collapsed due to bad engineering and construction, too. So, maybe those delays aren't just corruption? Also: In South Korea, the…
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Re: Why IKEA Is Fed Up with Russia
#6Ну и пусть пиздуют со своим китайским барахлом ломающимся. Seriously: you want to have a business in the country, a profitable and fast-growing one, yet you have complaints about the process. I guess, either shove it or leave. In Moscow, there was an accident when an aquapark full of people collapsed due to bad engineering and construction, too. So, maybe those delays aren't just corruption? Also: In South Korea, the…
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Re: Why IKEA Is Fed Up with Russia
#7Ну и пусть пиздуют со своим китайским барахлом ломающимся. Seriously: you want to have a business in the country, a profitable and fast-growing one, yet you have complaints about the process. I guess, either shove it or leave. In Moscow, there was an accident when an aquapark full of people collapsed due to bad engineering and construction, too. So, maybe those delays aren't just corruption? Also: In South Korea, the…
And as of their "investments". Those "investments" just build huge malls that sap away money and life from small busines and local furniture making factories, instead introducing a wave of cheap Chinese crap. Why care? Such investments aren't life-savers for anything.
Re: Why IKEA Is Fed Up with Russia
#8Ну и пусть пиздуют со своим китайским барахлом ломающимся. Seriously: you want to have a business in the country, a profitable and fast-growing one, yet you have complaints about the process. I guess, either shove it or leave. In Moscow, there was an accident when an aquapark full of people collapsed due to bad engineering and construction, too. So, maybe those delays aren't just corruption? Also: In South Korea, the…
Why does one have to accept the practise of corruption, to have a profitable and fast-growing business, as you seem to suggest?
With your reasoning, we could put forward that maybe the Moscow accident was caused by corruption: the builders paid off the inspectors to save on building costs.
The bottom line is: Ikea and Ingvar Kamprad has stated several times that they will not accept the Russian business practise of corruption. This is one of the reasons why some of Ikea's new locations have stood unopened for years, while waiting for permits from local governments (read: while refusing to pay bribes).
Может тебе сам перестать придумывать вещи, и посмотреть в зеркало?
Re: Why IKEA Is Fed Up with Russia
#9Ну и пусть пиздуют со своим китайским барахлом ломающимся. Seriously: you want to have a business in the country, a profitable and fast-growing one, yet you have complaints about the process. I guess, either shove it or leave. In Moscow, there was an accident when an aquapark full of people collapsed due to bad engineering and construction, too. So, maybe those delays aren't just corruption? Also: In South Korea, the…
And as of their "investments". Those "investments" just build huge malls that sap away money and life from small busines and local furniture making factories, instead introducing a wave of cheap Chinese crap. Why care? Such investments aren't life-savers for anything.
Except - traditional Russian retailers are terrible compared to Ikea. They do represent a real improvement.
Re: Why IKEA Is Fed Up with Russia
#10Ну и пусть пиздуют со своим китайским барахлом ломающимся. Seriously: you want to have a business in the country, a profitable and fast-growing one, yet you have complaints about the process. I guess, either shove it or leave. In Moscow, there was an accident when an aquapark full of people collapsed due to bad engineering and construction, too. So, maybe those delays aren't just corruption? Also: In South Korea, the…
Why does one have to accept the practise of corruption, to have a profitable and fast-growing business, as you seem to suggest? With your reasoning, we could put forward that maybe the Moscow accident was caused by corruption: the builders paid off the inspectors to save on building costs. The bottom line is: Ikea and Ingvar Kamprad has stated several times that they will not accept the Russian business practise of c…
Well, you can either accept "practice of corruption" or circumnavigate around in some way, or not have a business.
About the Moscow accident; I'm sure it was, partly. But I don't see how is this fact going to help if their mall in Samara has safety problems, indeed. If it doesn't, as I've told, they have their three choices.
In short: I DO think there's a problem with corruption in Russia; I just DON'T see a problem with IKEA packing its bags and leaving.