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by tpmx 2022 days ago
Perhaps grown in e.g. Poland where land and manpower is lower priced, compared to Germany?

Ikea Sweden used to sell similar-priced christmas trees "farmed" in Denmark, but they stopped doing that after accusations that they were undermining local suppliers of non-herbicide-grown christmas trees. (In Sweden christmas trees tend to be expensive in cities and cheap/free in the countryside.)

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Ikea has some loss leaders.

Christmas probably isn’t busy for them since there’s not a lot of real estate turnover in December.

I once ran the numbers for their tealights and I couldn’t even buy bulk wax that cheaply.