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IKEA is as bad as Wal-Mart

Everyone loves a bargain, but a new book illuminates the dangers of cheap stuff

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  • Saturday, July 11, 2009 06:17 PM

    my IKEA bed is wonderful

    it looks good, the dense foam mattress is terrific for my back, and it's holding up just fine...because I don't use it for a trampoline.

    The whole thing with sheets and blanket was around $650, vs maybe $2K for a quality conventional mattress, box spring and frame.

    It's perfectly fine if the bed is too crappy to pass on to my kids, because I don't have any kids. And to suggest that Bed Mart is somehow a better corporate citizen that IKEA seems ridiculous.

    Maybe my bed should have been hand-crafted out of organic hemp by elves in Northern California, for half my yearly salary.

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