MFI (MFI)

Member Name: mreyre

Product:	MFI
Date:	28/06/00 (49 review reads)
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Advantages: Good choice for kitchens and bathrooms.

Disadvantages: Waiting a month for a chest of drawers - ridiculous!

This popular self-assemble store has been the butt of many jokes in recent years, yet enjoyed a season of enormous popularity in the late Eighties. The range of choice is particularly good, laid out in a "friendly" way, with piped music as you peruse the aisles and easy to read price labels. I have a number of flat-pack MFI furniture items in my house and have never had any problems with assembling them and instructions have been fairly easy to follow.
However, it does annoy me that for any piece of furniture you choose, you have to make two trips to the store:
1. To choose, order and pay for the item.
2. To pick the item up 3-4 weeks later.
This seems rather strange. It is a shop, but not a single item is stocked! Just think if you had to put up with this at Tescos! We'd all have to plan our meals a month in advance! We do not have to do this for tins of beans, so why flat-pack furniture?
Therefore, redecorating a room can take much, much longer than you think, whilst you wait for the furniture to be actually delivered. This is not environmentally friendly either, nor does it make a happy marriage!

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