Lack tables are now 20% smaller
Comment on Shrinkflation hits IKEA Family by removing 5% discount
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is this actually “shrinkflation?”
The phrase literally comes from product manufacturers who shrink the volume of their product and sell it for the same price.
This is basically a crappier loyalty program works.
ThePantser@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Batman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They were full sized tables but then Bobby dropped them
Alto@kbin.social 11 months ago
Dammit lil bobby tables, not again
Batman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That boy ain’t right
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 11 months ago
Your Billy is 20% smaller.
Rentlar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Now it’s called Bill.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
It’s actually sold in two parts now: Bill and Lï
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 11 months ago
How am I going to fit my rackmount servers into it now?
7u5k3n@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is the loss right here… those tables were perfect and apparently they no longer are. Sad day
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So the tables are really lacking?
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re joking, but they did change the design of the Lack tables about a decade ago to make more of the legs hollow. They were popular as diy home server racks, but the hollow legs make it more difficult to mount more than one or two units of space.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 months ago
This program was to encourage you to be loyal by offering you discounts. Now that you’re loyal, fuck you.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I think this is just normal inflation, since it’s cost. I guess you could also argue it’s skimpflation.
theragu40@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think colloquially people have begun expanding use of the word to include anything where features are removed but the price stays the same.
Maybe there’s a better word for that, but I understand the parallel.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Isn’t this loyalty program free like many others?
ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You don’t pay cash for it, but it takes up your time and IKEA gets your data and is allowed to send you spam. So kinda free, but also not.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 11 months ago
So the price stays the same
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is the worst 0 dollars I’ve spent