[PLUG-TALK] 1983 Radio Shack Computer Catalog

Ronald Chmara ronabop at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 01:04:04 UTC 2012


Oblig wikipedia:
"Although IKEA household products and furniture are designed in Sweden,
they are largely manufactured in developing countries to keep costs down.
With suppliers in 50 countries, roughly ⅔ of purchasing is from Europe with
about ⅓ from Asia. A small amount of products are produced in North
America. Comparatively little production actually takes place in Sweden,
though it still remains the fourth-largest supplier country (behind China,
Poland <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland> and
Italy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy>
).[*citation needed <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>
*] China accounts for about 2½ times as much supply as Sweden. For most of
its products, the final assembly is performed by the end-user (consumer)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Aaron Burt <aaron at bavariati.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 04:11:04PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > Moral 2:  If you are the world's biggest megastore retailer, you
> > get far less flack if you are headquartered in the Netherlands
> > and manufacture in eastern Europe, than if you are headquartered
> > in Dallas or Bentonville, and manufacture in China.
>
> Hipsters, man.  It's all the fault of the hipsters.  ;)
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