ikea`s dirty past

[frankthring]

I see that IKEA`s founder, Mr Kamprad, has confessed not just to having
far right views but was a member of the Swedish Nazi party during the
2nd WW. Since then he has been a big financier of far right groups....now
it turns out that in the Seventies and Eighties he struck deals with the
East German Govt so that his furniture was made at factories there under
slave labour conditions (little food for the workers, usually Stasi (secret
police) prisoners and no pay whatsoever !! ) Should we think twice
about buying stuff for the home from his stores ?

[Arginald Valleywater]

It's all made in the far east now so little chance of Nazi involvement!!

[David Johnson]

"Should we think twice
about buying stuff for the home from his stores ?"

I think so. I guess his line about the Swedish Nazi Party was the "I was so young and impressionable" one and the line about slave labour conditions in the Seventies would be "we never knew".

I don't buy that in any sense. Mind there are a lot of companies who could be added to the same list. The last 20 years has seen many companies like Nike run as shell companies where they have very, very, few employees when you consider their turnover and they tend to outsource almost everything.

SO in the case of manufacturing that means outsourcing to Asia. Hence the stream of "oh we never knew our contractors were using child labour" Yeah right it ain't your fault, you just screwed the manufacturer down to a few pence to maximise your profit. It's all the fault of those nasty Asians.

Cheers
D

[one eyed jack]

Frank Thring wrote:

Should we think twice
about buying stuff for the home from his stores ?



Nah I think looters should do a bit of reading and be a bit more selective with which business they burn down. Why waste time looting.

Seems to be a business worth burning down if that was all true but htings like this never happen to the people that deserve it

I dont expect everyone to share the same view as people tend to be blind to such things these days. Especially uf theres a bargain to be had.

Then again I'd probably think more about the people that would lose their jobs as well

[one eyed jack]

I would have thought the cheap labour would've appealed to the imperialist in you Frank

[jimslip]

"ZEE MASTER RACE DEMAND ZEE RIGHT TO OWN FLAT PACK UTILIITARIAN, PRACTICAL BUT YET CHIC AND COMFORTABLE FURNITURE FOR OUR HOUSES!HEIL TO ME!HEIL MYSELF!"

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[Alex L]

.....and worse, the checkout system and customer service departments were designed by the Gestapo as the most fiendish forms of torture!

[jimslip]

OMG you just reminded me, what about the dreaded, "FLOOR ARROWS" ZAT YOU VILL NOT STRAY FROM OTHERWISE YOU VILL BE SHOT! You are herded through the shop like cattle.

Why is it that IKEA seems to be loved by women and HATED by men? Why do they have that room full of plastic balls for the kids? Why can't they have a bar and pinball machines for the hapless husbands and boyfriends who are dragged there on a Saturday afternoon?

IKEA is a living hell!

[Peter]

jimslip wrote:


> Why is it that IKEA seems to be loved by women and HATED by
> men? Why do they have that room full of plastic balls for the
> kids? Why can't they have a bar and pinball machines for the
> hapless husbands and boyfriends who are dragged there on a
> Saturday afternoon?

>

I remember reading about a shopping centre somewhere that has a mens creche in it, big screens with Sky sports showing, a huge scalextric track, play stations etc.

Now that would be worth a visit.

[Jonone]

The drink invented to plug a gap in the Coca Cola company's market share in Nazi Germany when Coca Cola was withdrawn.