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Boy, a lot of people defending Ikea today. Makes me think the Ikea PR machine is out in full force on the blogs today.
Here’s another example of Ikea not being green. They place their big box store on waterfront property with views of New York Harbor and then they truck all their furniture into the store from New Jersey. How laughable is that? How green is that?
I sit corrected it is 3.5% sales tax at the jersey store
No you are not responsible to pay taxes, on items in NJ that do not have tax.
Thank you 1:58 – you said exactly what I wanted to say…
FYI-you are still responsible for the sales tax on items bought in NJ and NY State now makes you swear that you payed all the sales tax on your State Return.
Just saying….
Aw I miss being the only one on the water taxis. There goes my good time.
All I’m saying is that, if you live in Manhattan, going to Newark can actually be closer/aster, and actually becomes cheaper because you will not pay taxes on your items. I don’t think it will wind up being packed after a while in the way Newark is. We shall see.
Too bad it wasn’t turned into a beautiful waterfront with small businesses, locally owned and the like.
But, if the people want, they want.
12:56 – except the local store had to get the furniture shipped to their store – generally a regional distribution center, and you still will likely need a car/truck to get the furniture into your home – unless you live literally right next door.
Plus Ikea offers one stop shopping so it is also more likely that your 30mi car trip (this ignores that Ikea is now less than 20mi from 8M people and is offering free public transportation and furniture delivery) will result in buying more of your furniture needs – thereby potentially reducing the overall number of trips.
Look we get it – you do not like big box stores and Ikea – thats fine – but your ridiculous environmental analysis is not well thought out and totally simplistic. Just b/c the place has a parking lot and/or it isnt in walkable distance – doesnt necessarily mean it is environmentally unfriendly – we are talking about Furniture here not milk – sometimes car/truck transport can be environmentally the greenest way to go – it all depends – but letting your built in bias determine the ‘facts’ undermines your credibility.