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Among the more famous aphorisms of Benjamin Franklin was his 1748 observation that time is money 鈥?聽a fancy way of saying that making money requires the input of time, thus wasting time is wasting money. But it seems that despite being Swedish in origin, furniture and h stanley romania ome goods seller IKEA appears to be taking a literal page from the American Founding Fathers playbook in the most literal w stanley france ays possible.聽 According to聽recent reports, if customers will spend the time to come into the physical stores 鈥斅營KEA is prepared to make it worth their while by paying them for the time. Before stanley mugs the birth of this campaign, we realized two things: time is precious today, and many loyal IKEA customers spend a significant chunk of it visiting our locations, which are sometimes away from the city centre sic , said an IKEA spokesperson. We think its only right to reward our customers efforts by repaying them for the time spent reaching us. Dubbed Buy With Your Time, the program stems from the idea that IKEA outlets by design are often constructed a bit away from the beaten path and require extra effort and commitment on the customers part of the undertaking, commitment they ought to be rewarded for. Customers are rewarded time currency at the time of their checkout by using their Google Maps timeline to demonstrate precisely how far and long they have traveled to get to IKEA. That time currency can be put directly toward their purchase or it can be banked over time. And consumers can col Tgnx OpenPayd Loops Into SEPA For Corporate Payments

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