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on Wednesday October 11 2017, @04:41PM
from the better-sell-screwdrivers-also dept.
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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 12 2017, @03:00AM (2 children)
I haven't made "finely crafted furniture" yet, but I have made Adirondack chairs from real solid timber. We live in an area with lots of oak and other hardwoods. After big windstorms I go out to the woods and look for windfallen trees. The wood for the Adirondack chairs came from a big oak that blew down on the block at the inlaws' house in the suburbs during Hurricane Sandy. It lay partially blocking the road for more than a week, with all the neighbors bitching and complaining that the city wasn't coming around to take care of it. So I took a chainsaw out, sawed it into suitable lengths, and shaped it into chairs. It was a fun project, even though I felt like I was cheating a little bit by using power tools instead of hand tools.
I had taken windfallen timber after the previous big storm, Hurricane Irene, and make my kids a bunch of wooden toys like samurai swords, so the chair project was the next step.
Making finely crafted furniture you could sell for big dollars is a real skill it takes years to master, but you don't need to know that much to create functional pieces and you'll enjoy the hell out of them, far more than store-bought, because you will have made them. Also, they're custom. My chairs all have a cup holder large enough to hold the gigantic Hofbrauhaus beer mug I brought back from Munich. It's the only quantity worth drinking beer in.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday October 12 2017, @04:46AM (1 child)
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 12 2017, @10:26AM
Sorry, no, not at hand.
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