Has Furniture Gotten Worse? We Tested It. - More Perfect Union

[TexasTowelie]

If you have ever bought a Wayfair couch or tried to assemble an IKEA anything, you know furniture sucks now. Fast furniture has taken over — meaning cheap quality for customers and low wages for workers. Meanwhile, companies like IKEA and Wayfair are raking in huge profits.

[LuvLoogie]

1. My wife started helping her sister with her

interior decorating business. My wife has noted the drop in quality all over and particularly notes the shoddy quality/build of furniture from wayfair. The goods at pottery barn, crate and barrel, have gone down as well. Gotta be private equity.
I've never expected high quality from IKEA though. Always seemed like college furniture to me.

[sheshe2]

2. I worked in the furniture business for decades.

One of which imported antique case goods from Europe. The upholstery all came from High Point. All solid, well made furniture.

I don't own a single piece of furniture that contains particle board which is toxic because they contain formaldehyde. Many of my things are hand me downs from my grandparents.

Thanks for the great video...it brought back memories, TT.

[mahina]

3. With a side order of toxic chemical outgassing that is carcinogenic

yay

[LastDemocratInSC]

5. Fun fact: Managing the toxic insecticides in boxes of imported goods

is a big deal now for retailers. Items in the boxes must be aired out for specified periods before being made available for sale.

See, wasn't that fun?

[mahina]

8. I wish I had known that last month.

I received a generous gift of a recliner in a box from Costco that is only now, a month and a half later, tolerable to even be in the same room with it without an asthma attack.

And it stank like hell.

[Skittles]

4. it's all part of MAKE PEOPLE HAVE TO REPLACE PRODUCTS MORE OFTEN

things are no longer being made to last

it's hell on the landfills too

[LastDemocratInSC]

6. Some items like the lower priced home vacuum cleaners

are built in a way that makes repair very difficult. They aren't constructed to be disassembled. Repairs, assuming parts are even available, would be too expensive. Voila! Another sale and another item in the landfill.

[Skittles]

7. that is covered in the documentary BUY NOW - THE SHOPPING CONSIPIRACY

products are being made to make actually fixing them very difficult if not impossible, to make people need to replace them

yes, it is wreaking havoc on landfills

it is just plain WRONG