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.

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[–] 159 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (18 children)

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.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    I think colloquially people have begun expanding use of the word to include anything where features or product are removed but the price stays the same.

    Maybe there's a better word for that, but I understand the parallel.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Isn’t this loyalty program free like many others?

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Lack tables are now 20% smaller

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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.

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