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Re: The IKEA catalogue through the ages

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Post by midasuni »

professor_v wrote: post #5

I definitely think it's a mistake that IKEA stopped printing their catalogues last year. The offline experience is totally different from online. Online I tend to do direct searches for things I already decided I want, but the IKEA catalog is perfect for casual browsing and getting new ideas for stuff I would've never bought otherwise. It might come off as a cost saving short term, but I doubt in the end the catalogu…

Not just IKEA. Argos and CPC both stopped catalogues, and my purchase with them declined. Argos especially had a USP over amazon being the “book of dreams”, something to leaf through in a Sunday morning and go “oooh”

Now I simply buy stuff on Amazon.

Re: The IKEA catalogue through the ages

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Post by dirtyid »

IKEA catalogues, products and how they're rendered vary regionally, hard to capture it all with just English Catalogues. I have new IKEA products page from China/US/Germany bookmarked to see satisfy my Ikea enthusiasm. Interestly, hometurf Sweden doesn't get a lot of new products.

Re: The IKEA catalogue through the ages

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Post by dirtyid »

draugadrotten wrote: post #32
tdrdt wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is from 2012 and was done without IKEA's consent.

How about the prison numbers on the black person's t-shirt from 2021? https://www.businessinsider.com/ikea-2021-catalog-delayed-im... https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/ikea-offensive-racial-image-b... and the "can't be black for the greek market" from 2018? https://www.thelocal.se/20180206/ikea-agent-tells-actor-he-c... Point I am trying to make is that IKEA is a slick global company that is not "good" in a moral sense…

These anti-black msgs seem like some shit from IKEA viz team in EU misbehaving. VS photoshopping out women which is the kind of request directed from market research, i.e. in architecture visualization, not uncommon to have racist renderings for marketting (brown people in service spaces) while submitting alternate united colors of benetton versions for awards consideration.

Re: The IKEA catalogue through the ages

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Post by Ma8ee »

mattowen_uk wrote: post #54
arketyp wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was not implying anything very factually based, just a decision based on people's perception. Like the ban on plastic straws.

In this day and age, peoples perception is everything, and facts seem to be unimportant.

Facts, like that IKEA used certified lumber so they had very good reasons to believe that they used sustainable resources? Or that this scandal doesn't have anything to do with IKEA, but it seems like everyone that bought wood from that part of the world probably are as big part of it?

They really tried to make it look like it was about IKEA children's furniture!, but if you actual read the article you linked it has actually very little to do with IKEA and there's nothing there that says IKEA did anything reprehensible or even anything that is hard to defend.

Re: The IKEA catalogue through the ages

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Post by mattowen_uk »

Ma8ee wrote: post #64
mattowen_uk wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In this day and age, peoples perception is everything, and facts seem to be unimportant.

Facts, like that IKEA used certified lumber so they had very good reasons to believe that they used sustainable resources? Or that this scandal doesn't have anything to do with IKEA, but it seems like everyone that bought wood from that part of the world probably are as big part of it? They really tried to make it look like it was about IKEA children's furniture! , but if you actual read the article you linked it has…

Dude, I was agreeing with you.

I linked that article, because I recall it in the news, and it got fairly widely covered at the time with the blame firmly placed at IKEAs feet - "They should have known" apparently.

People believe what they are told these days, without any desire to fact-check or cross-reference. I think this was my point.

Re: The IKEA catalogue through the ages

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Post by subpixel »

iamacyborg wrote: post #50
subpixel wrote: post #34

Why, why did the Kramfors sofa get killed off? It was a $400 sofa that rivaled $3000 sofas from other manufacturers and nothing in the market comes close these days.

> It was a $400 sofa that rivaled $3000 sofas Sure, in much the same way a £10 tshirt from Uniqlo matches a £90 tshirt from Sunspel. They're not really the same thing.

I don't know from Sunspel, but I paid $4000 for the seating in my living room and I would trade it for a pair of Kamfors right now.
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