IKEA Family is a membership program, like grocery store memberships. The only real feature of the program was their 5% discount. But now, they are getting rid of it to focus on “New Lower Price offers”. I’m not holding my breath that their prices are going to come down anytime soon.
IKEA Family is worthless now. They do offer “select delivery options” with no explanation on what this means.
Per Wikipedia:
I can’t see how furniture could ever qualify as shrinkflation, unless we’re counting something like the use of crappier materials.
Yea, if I’m understanding correctly, they are removing an employee benefit. Which is shitty, but the discount was pretty shit in the first place.
It’s not an employee benefit. It’s a membership thing that customers can sign up for. It was literally the only perk of it.
Hey now, you also got free shopping bags!
And other deals + free coffee during business days.
Return window was also bigger if you were a family member. At least where I live.
Your membership to the service is now worse off comparatively, so the benefits you receive have shrunk. Shrinkflation feels pretty apt here
OK, but the membership is free. So you’re paying with the value of your email and personal information.
That’s you paying more for the same thing: inflation. Shrinkflation would mean getting less for the same or more money.