{"id":73,"date":"2011-08-02T07:22:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T12:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipefinepatiofurniture.com\/blog\/casual-furniture\/lates-chinese-knockoff-ikea"},"modified":"2011-08-02T07:23:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T12:23:26","slug":"lates-chinese-knockoff-ikea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipefinepatiofurniture.com\/blog\/casual-furniture\/lates-chinese-knockoff-ikea","title":{"rendered":"Lates Chinese Knockoff: IKEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUNMING, China \u2014 One of this city&#8217;s newest furniture retailers has the look and feel of an IKEA store.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t be fooled. The Swedish retail giant has not opened a store here. It&#8217;s all part of latest wave of Chinese knockoffs \u2014 fake retail formats. 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Kunming is the same city where a blogger recently <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/pipefinepatiofurniture.com\/blog\/casual-furniture\/lates-chinese-knockoff-ikea\">Lates Chinese Knockoff: IKEA<\/a><\/span><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casual-furniture","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lates Chinese Knockoff: IKEA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lates Chinese Knockoff: IKEA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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