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Honestly, I haven't noticed any real difference in Ikea flat-pack vs Walmart Target Wayfair (or even random Amazon listings). It is all mostly cheap junk. If yo

• yamtaddle 3y ago
  What I usually notice from Wal Mart and Target (and other discount big-box stores) are worse veneers (thinner, easier to damage), greater likelihood that the product is already damaged out-of-the-box, much worse assembly instructions (less-clear, often with badly-translated directions that I assume were originally in Chinese or something), greater likelihood of missing parts, and (to borrow a delightful phrase from elsewhere in this discussion) terrible, coarse, void-filled "oatmeal cookie" particle board that crumbles if you look at it. Ikea's stuff is crap (especially their lower-end items) but it's, like, good crap, by comparison.
• JohnFen 3y ago
  > If you are willing to pay for the most expensive items With IKEA, anyway, once you get into their actual quality items, they start to get more expensive than other options at the same quality level. (A caveat: I don't shop from Walmart so I have no idea about their quality scale).