and I already understood what you are getting at, but sorry, no, this is not meant for the local community for me, but simply thought of mercantilism. That is naive.
Just think it through further: If more people in Germany buy more kitchens in Poland, the Polish kitchen builders buy more machines from Germany. That’s good. If the quality is really worse, more people will buy again from German kitchen builders. But that’s not at all what I mean, and I also don’t think that’s what meant.
When I think of the local community, I think of the carpenter who works in a backyard workshop. The problem is, as mentioned, for a kitchen like I imagine it, he wants about 5-10 times as much as Ikea (I already asked) and he doesn’t care whether I buy a kitchen from East Westphalia or Poland if he doesn’t get the order.
And when the kitchen breaks, I still call him and he can repair it for really expensive money.
By the way, since the poor German butchers have already been mentioned here, German pork floods the world markets at bargain prices. But that is a completely different discussion. Also, the big chain versus small retail thing is actually a different discussion as well.
So in the end, all I can say is, if it were about a 5-10% difference, yes, then I would also rather approach the local craftsman. But it’s 50-80% (from the carpenter to IKEA Poland from Germany to Poland generally maybe about 30%).
I really just can’t afford this surcharge.
And if I’ve already ended up at a supraregional retail branch, I just don’t think that nationalistically. That is completely alien to me. In my other actions, I rather try to influence things so that national borders play less and less of a role, also because these borders exist only in people’s minds.