Wal-Mart "Stockholm" series  

Granted, its not...
Granted, its not stupendous......but it could be much worse. Has a bit of Kerf vibe about it, no?

Kerf
Kerf makes beautiful furniture. Thanks for introducing me to them! On their site I notice how proud they are of their materials and methods. If only the same could be said for Wal-Mart.
http://www.kerfdesign.com/materialsprocess.html

Kerf is fantastic. They did...
Kerf is fantastic. They did my kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities for my MCM home in Long Island. The quality of their work is incredible!

They're about the same quality as my
Paperclip pieces from Blu Dot, but I've never stepped into a Wal Mart and I've never voted Republican and I've never been arrested,.....three things I will never do!

Thoughts on Walmart
For the benefit of the many members of this forum who are from Europe--take it from an American, WalMart is the Antichrist. Once you let a WalMart into your midst, you can kiss the great little stores on your High Street goodbye. I refuse to shop at WalMart. That one store has contributed more to the dumbing down, pasteurization, ugliness factor, stereotyping, of America and Americans than 300 years of history combined. Y'all can rant about ebay all you want, but ebay's got nothin' on the evilness of WalMart.
The furniture pictured above will be out of kilter, the sliding doors will not run smoothly in their tracks, the screws to put it together will misthreaded, the laminate will eventually peel off and the feet will leave rust circles on your rugs. Caveat emptor!
Gosh, I feel better now.:)

Riki tells the truth
If those people outside of Wal Mart's reach want to buy some nicely designed, cheap (mostly) crapily made furniture, shop at Ikea (they're also guilty of killing the small indy stores)....although Ikea DOES sell some nifty bookends...

Quick story on WalMart from the LA Times of a few years ago
Small co. in Iowa or some such place made 20" box window fans. Employed about 140 people. WalMart was one of their biggest customers. All 140 employees made a reasonable (in Iowa or similar, see note below) middle class living ($24 to perhaps $38 per hour) WalMart constantly pushed for a lowering of wholesale costs on the fan which retailed for $24.95.
Factory kept cutting staff, etc. Finally outsourced manufacture to China. WalMart eventually built a store one town over from factory paying approx. $7.00 an hour. Factory shut down US operations, many former fan factory employees got jobs at WalMart and now have to work better then 4 hours in order to afford the very fan they once built.
Sad reality is that the US of A is rapidly becoming a 3rd world country with indoor plumbing and perhaps not all, but definitely some of the blame can be laid at the WalMart doorstep.
* No disrespect to Iowa just the reality that $38.00 an hour goes a lot further in Iowa then it does in LA or San Francisco or NYC

3rd world country
BTM: The USA will never revert back to 3rd world country status with indoor plumbing. However, what is happening, (and don't you know other countries aren't paying attention to this!) is that our "middle class is slowly sinking instead of rising. 1% of our population controls approximately 20% of our wealth.
In other words, if you are doing well in the US, you are in the vast minority and you will probably continue to do well. However, if you are Jane or John Doe (i.e. regular people) and are a nurse or a mechanic or a HVAC installer, you are probably struggling right now to pay your electric bill and put food on the table. But, in no means does "struggling" in the US equate to "struggling" in the 3rd world. Struggling in the US means that you have to cut back on the number of times you eat out in restaurants and how many NetFlix you order per month.
Struggling in 3rd world countries means survival.
No offense, BTM, but even our poorest of the poor in the US can't compare to Ethiopia, even on our worst day.

I was using the term 3rd World
euphemistically. Yes, I know we are not Ethiopia nor truly 3rd world in the strictest definition of the phrase. But we are ranked something like 33rd within industrialized nations for health care. US students rank near the bottom of the list with respect to proficiency in science and math. We have one of the worst personal savings rates. Spiraling health care costs are forcing many Americans into bankruptcy. Foreclosures are at an all time high. Our current national debt and deficit has grown to an amount greater in the last 7 and a half years to the deficit of the prior 225 years. Last year US universities awarded something on the order of 48,000 engineering degrees. China alone awarded something approaching 3 million. We make nothing or so it seems other then moribund obesity.
My point, I think was, that we are on a rather slippery slope.
And actually I think that it is 5% of us that controls 95% of all the wealth. That's why it is imperative that one control their own fate, which of course is quite possible here, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to retire eight years ago at 40.

3rd world USA
Personally speaking I would not be surprised if it happened here. I live in north Eastern Pa an I am fighting to stay afloat, and I am not the only one..

Funny, no one
Funny, no one has mentioned that the line of furniture is named the same as the 'high quality' line of furniture from IKEA. WM probably sees IKEA as it's main competition in the 'lowest price regardless of quality' arena.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/collections/11989/

It is actually more around...
It is actually more around the order of 1 percent, rich to poor. I should say the very rich to the very poor and the not so poor.

Agreed Finch
or as I have heard it said, at least in the States, there are two classes of people. The incredibly Greedy, and the incredibly Needy.