07-31-2023, 05:58 PM
(07-31-2023, 02:11 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Actually, a lot of Ikea furniture is made of solid wood. I have a kitchen table which is all wood. The individual planks which have been laminated together are nowhere near as big as in an old-school table, but it’s still a solid piece of furniture which will last and might be worth refinishing when needed.
I’m not sure this actually affects your point, but need to correct the facts on Ikea. Not employed by them, just like some of their stuff.
(07-31-2023, 03:20 PM)tomh009 Wrote: And Stubbe builds pre-cast concrete panels to customer specifications. They don't particularly make "crap" as such, they make what the builder specs for the building. The panels they provided for Civic 66, for example, look magnificent compared to ones that DTK Condos asked Stubbe to make. Stubbe is not the problem here, and could even be part of a solution.
I'll throw in a third example. Big food service companies like Aramark and Sodexho provide different levels of service, as I understand it. They can cater both the jail cafeteria and the Google cafeteria. Obviously they aren't providing the same product in the two cases. Customer differentiation.
Ikea has the particleboard stuff which does a reasonably good job of staying in one place (but if you try to move it, nah) and it also has the solid wood stuff at a higher price point.