Forget Facebook Marketplace — IKEA's new tool for buying and selling second-hand furniture will launch in the UK 'later this year'
THE SO WHAT
IKEA building its own second-hand marketplace is a direct attempt to pull circular-economy transactions off Facebook, Vinted, and eBay and back into its brand orbit. If you manufacture durable goods, assume your used market is now a strategic channel—either you own it or a horizontal marketplace does.
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