- Peter Shawn Taylor: Saving the world now requires disliking IKEA. It's an order.
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Wal-Mart is more than just the home to everyday low prices. It’s also a magnet for environmentalists, enemies of capitalism, community organizations, traffic planners, religious groups, unions and just about anyone else with a beef.
As such, it makes life a little easier for more than just consumers. Other retailers also catch a break when all available anger is focused on the devil from Bentonville.
That free ride may soon be over. Judging by the new book Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, by Atlantic Monthly correspondent Ellen Ruppel Shell, Swedish furniture retailer IKEA could be next on the angry list.
Shell’s thesis is that a fixation on low prices has ruined the world. Global trade and cheap labour have lowered expectations among consumers and robbed us of our ability to spot good quality merchandise. Cheap is everywhere, and it’s always bad.
You’d expect Wal-Mart to be on the receiving end of most of Shell’s screed. But IKEA gets its own chapter, which was recently excerpted in a Toronto newspaper.
Saturday, August 01, 2009
The Blame Gamers Add Another Target
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- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.
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