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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday October 11 2017, @04:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the better-sell-screwdrivers-also dept.

Ikea will start experimenting with selling its famous flatpack furniture through online retailers as part of a wider push to become more accessible to shoppers.

The Swedish chain - known for its vast edge-of-town outlets - is also testing a smaller city centre store format.

Other innovations include order and pick-up points and standalone kitchen showrooms.

The moves are a response to changing shopping patterns.

Ikea has has not said which websites will be part of the test, but Amazon and Alibaba are thought to be likely contenders.

The chain sells many of its 9,500 products on its own website, but was a late arrival to the online retail market.

Waiting on an endless line at the checkout is the best part about buying Ikea's goods.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @02:56AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @02:56AM (#580937)

    I have some of that type of furniture. Well, it's not the real hand-made all solid wood stuff, but it's the lower-grade stuff they made 30 years ago, with real wood front and sides, but cheaper wood composite for the back and drawer interiors. Still far better than what they sell as "good furniture" these days.

    By the end of the month, I'll be rid of it all.

    Why? Because I'm moving, and paying to move furniture 1500 miles across the country is not cost-effective; that stuff is heavy. Since it's nice, it begs for regular dusting and maintenance. You can't move the damn stuff easily to vacuum under it. (I wasn't handicapped when I bought it, but I am now; thanks cancer.) It's actually cheaper to buy replacement Ikea fiberboard items at the local Ikea when I get there, even with paying Ikea to pick and deliver it. It will be lighter and I'll be able to move it (most of the stuff I'm getting will have wheels for that purpose). Most importantly, if it gets damaged, who cares? As a plus, I _like_ putting Ikea stuff together; it's fun, although I'm a lot slower at it then most folks. I'll have time.

    A friend of a friend of a friend who lost everything in one of the recent hurricanes is moving into my current area, and almost all of it is going to that family, to help them start their lives over. The friend chain is coming to pick it up from me; this way I don't have to pay anyone to haul it all off to the dump (or try to sell it on Craigslist and get murdered).

    I know I'm an edge case, obviously. But this is just one answer to your question: the finely crafted stuff simply doesn't meet my needs anymore. I have better things to do than dust all the little nooks in fine furniture (I draw the line at crannies, they stay dusty).

  • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday October 12 2017, @08:07AM

    by acid andy (1683) on Thursday October 12 2017, @08:07AM (#581029) Homepage Journal

    Fair point.

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