"It's ironic that Ikea looks on the U.S. and Danville the way that most people in the U.S. look at Mexico," Not really. With Ikea furniture being so cheap, so

"It's ironic that Ikea looks on the U.S. and Danville the way that most people in the U.S. look at Mexico," Not really. With Ikea furniture being so cheap, so heavy, and so apparently labor non-intensive (only three hundred employees at the factory?) the main advantage to building furniture in the US rather than Sweden is saving on the cost of shipping US-bound furniture across the Atlantic rather than saving a few bucks an hour on wages.