I like wandering round Ikea, other people usually end up offering to assemble my flatpack items after I invariably fail to do so and they feel sorry for me (luckily Lauren has oodles of technical skills), and last time I checked Ikea meatballs weren't gluten free, although I enjoy the general concept of meatballs and have homemade ones sometime :).
Technically, I lie. I have been in one once, but within 30 seconds the fire alarm went off and we escaped out the nearest fire exit, an option not normally open to those poor lost souls trapped inside. As far as I'm concerned it didn't count :)
I have only shopped in IKEA a few times, bought furniture, but never tried the food and hence can't comment on the meatballs. Are they anything like Narn Breen?
I don't like meatballs that much anyway. Nor herring. But some of their other food is okay. They cake is nice in a processed way, though that is experienced through a filter of 'Had 2 hours in here already, need sugar!'.
I really like putting together flatpack; but I do find it reasonably easy. Unfortunately I don't really like the *results*, and prefer to have nice solid wood furniture.
The only things I own from Ikea are a bunch of tealight holders my sister bought me. I've never been through the door of one myself and mostly associate them with the frightful plastic light fittings that the previous occupant had in my flat! My taste in furniture is entirely too old fashioned for the place, give me a solid wood antique any day.
(x) An opportunity to plan and optimise one's shopping trips.
Best time yet: under six minutes for GBP250 of shelving. I entered as they opened the front doors and had to wait for them to open the exit. Free parking too, if you're in store for less than 15 minutes.
In the US you can get ribs or mac cheese in ikea as well as meatballs. Or at least in Ikea Brooklyn you do! Also they run a free ferry from NYC to the Brooklyn Ikea.
Ikea can be useful and (dare I say it) fun. Their food is okay; I like their gravelux better than the cooked stuff but I hear great things about breakfast.
Many years ago, before large flat screen tvs became affordable but after HD was standard, I got a very off-brand tv (really a gaming monitor) for cheap. But it weighed 150lbs. I needed a stand to hold it, and the only thing this side of metal shelving that could take it was an Ikea media center. Still have it, and no regrets. Ate the gravelux. No regrets there either.
After voting in the poll, this post is showing up on my friends page with huuuuge rectangles for the results. They are magenta at the top, shading to hot pink at the bottom.
I not only enjoy wandering around shops (and Ikea in particular), but I particularly enjoy assembling furniture. Since we bought the new house last June I've built six Billies, seven Bennos, three Ektorps, four different Leksviks and a half-dozen Ingolfs. Loads of fun.
More-or-less anything on offer is better than their meatballs.
Horrid, horrid, hateful shopping experience. OK, they don't seem to treat their customers as dirt in the way that Trago Mills* does**, but it comes close. I quite like some of their stuff and we actually have some in our living room, but because the whole experience is so stressful and so hateful, we wouldn't go back unless there really was no alternative.
* Our local equivalent - IKEA hasn't actually got as far as southwest England yet. ** They don't, for example, assume that their customers are criminals.*** *** You used to have to have your hand stamped if you left the store and wanted to come back in, rather like some ghastly 80s nightclub.
I was struck by the maze. I also could see through a gap in a wall into the IKEA's back area where product is stored, and thought I want the Ark of the Covenant to be back there!
I went that time just to look. Didn't even eat. Still tempted to try the meatballs.
I wanted Q1 to be tickyboxes rather than radio buttons. "I've never been in one" because I believe it is "A maze, from which no person has yet escaped with their sanity intact".
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-- Steve's heard praise of their cafeteria, but hasn't visited one at a meal-appropriate time.
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Count yourself lucky I added two more options :->
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The great things about Ikea are inexpensive crockery and giant snake stuffed toys.
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I really like putting together flatpack; but I do find it reasonably easy. Unfortunately I don't really like the *results*, and prefer to have nice solid wood furniture.
Had to be done.
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(x) An opportunity to plan and optimise one's shopping trips.
Best time yet: under six minutes for GBP250 of shelving. I entered as they opened the front doors and had to wait for them to open the exit. Free parking too, if you're in store for less than 15 minutes.
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Many years ago, before large flat screen tvs became affordable but after HD was standard, I got a very off-brand tv (really a gaming monitor) for cheap. But it weighed 150lbs. I needed a stand to hold it, and the only thing this side of metal shelving that could take it was an Ikea media center. Still have it, and no regrets. Ate the gravelux. No regrets there either.
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I don't do flatpack, that's what John is for.
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I don't have anything relevant to add. Just...
Anyone else?
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More-or-less anything on offer is better than their meatballs.
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* Our local equivalent - IKEA hasn't actually got as far as southwest England yet.
** They don't, for example, assume that their customers are criminals.***
*** You used to have to have your hand stamped if you left the store and wanted to come back in, rather like some ghastly 80s nightclub.
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I went that time just to look. Didn't even eat. Still tempted to try the meatballs.
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Roll on crayfish time!
Their flatpacks, like all other flatpacks are designed to lead even the most equable of couples to the brink of divorce.
SEWIWEIC
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