IKEA - Hell on Earth

Written by Birmingham UK Com


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7.Out inrepparttar car park you struggle to squeeze your precious possessions intorepparttar 103327 back of your car. Finally, after this terrifying ordeal you arrive back home. Thank goodness you sigh. More fool you. The second ordeal now begins as you drag your goods into your home and eagerly beginrepparttar 103328 assembly. Three hours later, allen key in hand you ponder over whyrepparttar 103329 door won’t fit and why you are left with 8 pieces that don’t seem to go anywhere. The manual is next to useless and there are at least 4 parts missing. Your JOKK is going nowhere. Insane anger follows and you contemplate throwing it out intorepparttar 103330 back garden. A further 30 minutes of in depth concentration and you finally crackrepparttar 103331 code and boltrepparttar 103332 final piece into place. No thanks torepparttar 103333 instruction manual which is a kind of Pingu without penguins. You are emotionally drained and weak from your ordeal. You suddenly hate Sweden.

A trip to IKEA is hell on earth. Why would you go there? Because it is cheap? Just how much is your sanity worth? This evil empire of Baron Ingvar Kamprad’s IKEA is addictive. You are an addict. You sit on your IKEA chair in your IKEA living room with your IKEA lighting and your IKEA soft furnishings and you pride yourself in your ability to find a bargain – but at what cost? Your little piece of Suburbia looks like everyone elses little piece of suburbia and you keep going back. Why? You cant’ afford to go elsewhere? You actually likerepparttar 103334 stuff they sell?

IKEA has done a fantastic job of manipulatingrepparttar 103335 masses with its cheap products. However, there are some things about IKEA that I find disturbing. Reasons why I would never go back to this hell on earth.

First and foremost IKEA bring you cheap products and tacky goods because most are made in third world countries using child labour or near slave labour wages forrepparttar 103336 workers that actually producerepparttar 103337 goods.

Even more chilling are reports inrepparttar 103338 news of Ingvar Kamprad’s Nazi past. The Stockholm newspaper Expressen revealed that Kamprad, owner and founder of IKEA, was involved with Nazi groups in his youth.

Ikea adverts make fun at their own company and target what they regard as stuck up designers with witty and amusing scenes to win overrepparttar 103339 general public. The marketing campaign is pure brilliance. No one can deny this. They have been very successful.

So, has any of this put you off? Probably not. You will want to go back forrepparttar 103340 Hot Dogs anyway!

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How to go forward and not backwards with your business.

Written by Robin Araoz


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