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Essay heading: IKEA and sustainability
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Finally, I reflect on the initial subject I have chosen and whether it is fully in line with IKEA's low price strategy.
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IKEA is to furniture what Wal-Mart is to food: a supermarket whose strategy is primarily based on low prices. As a group project, I worked on Wal-Mart and was astounded by the negative image associated with the company. IKEA seems to stand at the other end of the spectrum in people's mind. Newsweek once released an article nicknaming the Swedish Company, the "Teflon multinational," one to which social criticism does not stick...
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