IKEA - love it or hate it?

JAS_OH1 said:
I have been to Jungle Jim's (there's a few of them) more than once but I was working on a retrieval project and not there for personal shopping. I could have easily spent 3 hours of my own time in those stores and would have come out with a cartful of stuff. IKEA, well I am almost certain I will buy nothing from there but I just want to see it, that's all.
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I'm retired and have all of that "stuff" that Ikea would be pushing. Would be a waste of gas, time, resources, i.e. a fruitless endeavor... The market on the other hand... Well, glad I have a truck. 😎
 
Lullabelle said:
Love IKEA, love their meatballs :okay:
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I never got to try their infamous meatballs as there were confusing queues all over the shop with no clear direction on where to go to get them and pay for them! I understand that the confusion is done on purpose to keep people in the shop as long as possible but that's not how I like to shop unfortunately.
 
TheSoloChef said:
I never got to try their infamous meatballs as there were confusing queues all over the shop with no clear direction on where to go to get them and pay for them! I understand that the confusion is done on purpose to keep people in the shop as long as possible but that's not how I like to shop unfortunately.
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My list is in the order of the products needed. I make one pass and done. 👍
 
TheSoloChef said:
I never got to try their infamous meatballs as there were confusing queues all over the shop with no clear direction on where to go to get them and pay for them! I understand that the confusion is done on purpose to keep people in the shop as long as possible but that's not how I like to shop unfortunately.
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There’s a trick to navigating IKEA, the one here, anyway, and I guess they’re all similar.

When you first step in, there’s a main path you’re supposed to follow, and it’ll wind you up and down and over and around all their displays…through kitchenware, home office, bedrooms, home decor, all that.

At some point, it’ll lead you up to the cafeteria, so you can go up there and have your meatballs and pastry and tea, get refreshed, then back on the path to finish up through the seasonal and foods section and then the registers to pay.

However…if you’re observant, you’ll spy little secret doorways here and there, and those are shortcuts, allowing you to go straight from kitchens to bedding, completely skipping home office, for example. There are several of those in place, and it just so happens, since the cafeteria is popular on its own, that the secret stairway/lift to that is very near the beginning of the whole adventure.
 
Barriehie said:
Rephrased, I make one pass by the items I need. I don't go in the aisles I don't need and I don't backtrack.
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Yeah, IKEA doesn’t really have aisles per se, it’s more like wandering through an adventure land, which is why if all you’re looking for is a bowl to put on your table to hold fruit…you gotta know where those shortcuts are.
 
TastyReuben said:
Yeah, IKEA doesn’t really have aisles per se, it’s more like wandering through an adventure land, which is why if all you’re looking for is a bowl to put on your table to hold fruit…you gotta know where those shortcuts are.
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Sounds like a place I'd avoid like the plague; not organized per my idea of organized. 😆
 
Barriehie said:
Me neither but there's that food, gas, and power thing...
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I'm not going until I figure out a way to get the gas and my time paid for to make the 2 hour trip there, but it's a sideline afterthought to the Jungle Jim's down the street. I'm not sure what food and power have to do with it, though.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
I'm not going until I figure out a way to get the gas and my time paid for to make the 2 hour trip there, but it's a sideline afterthought to the Jungle Jim's down the street. I'm not sure what food and power have to do with it, though.
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Buying, in general.
 
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