To hate the ikea shopping "experience?"

[toptramp]

Went to Ikea today to get the trofast storage system as have decided it's probably the best storage system for me.

Havn't been for years and I can see why; horrid aircraft hanger -like store and hellish carpark. Piles of tacky shite piled high. I mean- how mant tea light holders does one need? Hardly any staff to help. I know it's self serve but I would like to be attended to. Staff were helpful when asked and when found. Then the awful self serve bit downstairs where one has to grab piles of flat pack shite oneself.

I hate most of the furniture. I like some of it but most of it is a bit tacky. I'm more of a Laura Ashley girl myself (althought tbh it's far too expensive and I like a bit of modern mixed with my shabby shite chic)

I like what I bought; trofast very useful storage, wine glasses and ultra cheap salad bowl but god I don't ever want to go back unless I'm desperate. I just wish they'd do more home delivery. It's so cheap as customer service is minimal.

Give me my local trading post (lovely second hand style curiosity shop) anyway.

My fave Ikeas in order of preference:

Nottingham
Coventry
Birmingham
Lakeside
Wembley

Ahhh. Swedish things

IKEA won't do more delivery and they won't provide more people to serve you. That would go against the core principles of what it means to be Swedish. The idea of employing somebody to do something you are quite capable of doing yourself is unthinkable.

We clear our own tables when eating out.
We put the clothes we try on back where we got them from.
We collect ALL our parcels from the post office.
We get out with shovels and clear our own road of snow.
And one of the requirements for Swedish citizenship is that you have your own trailer so never have to have anything delivered. :o

I think I love you Kladd [fswoon]

Sweden sounds like a very straightforward proper country.
DP says that they have a really good army. He may have made that up.

:o

I think your DP may be confusing the Swedish army with the Norwegian one.

We're going to Stockholm in February on a Swedish things pilgrimage business trip.

I'm trying to shoehorn in a visit to Småland while we're there but DP thinks I'm taking the Ikealove a bit far....

YABU, sorry.

Some of us prefer lower prices and min service.

If they employ extra staff to walk around asking you every 2 minutes 'Are you allright Madam?' we ll have to pay for that and i don't fancy it.

As for 'clinical' well put a photo on top or your dc's paintings and it becomes 'unique'

BUT wine glasses is the only thing i don't buy as they brake easily. Unless they make better ones now.(?)

I would go to Ikea if it was filled with Swedish men.

Oh someone else here enjoys flat pack

i love going to ikea and ds thinks its great. like the food too especially the almond choclate tart thing

and they sell the best rye crackers a massive one teh size of a dinner plate :) i like to think of myself as quite the connoisseur of rye crackers

Yabu. Any store at this time of the year will be a nightmare.

Also I like ikea The store is a retail example quoted in many a business school, the products are simple ckean line designs, but complex package design quoted in many a design school. And child friendly...What's not to like?

Laquitar allow me to acquaint you with Rättvik. No beauty, true, but man do these things endure

I once sat on a bed in Ikea (in the very middle of a bedroom display) and sobbed for about 10 mins. To be fair I was about 7 months pregnant.

DD has had a number of full on strops on there. I've had a few minor ones

In fact I I don't think I've ever been there without some stressful and embarrassing incident happening at some point.

Those looks strong Vivi . I'll make a note for next time then.

[envy]@your trip.

I found posted on my facebook wall the other day... I think my friends consider me some kind of Ikeaophile.

I love Ikea, although haven't been for a couple of years. However, when abroad, I have been known to seek them out and have been to various stores in SE Asia and Australia

Oh I love Ikea. My local store is the Glasgow one. I follow the arrows the lot. It would seem so wrong to me to just go in for one thing and not follow the arrows round the whole store. I know the layout I could do it but I choose not to!
Everytime I go to the restaurant for meatballs and see the pictures of Sweden I want to visit. Kladdkaka you make it sound like my kind of place. Then a hotdog and watch the loading of cars. I use a horse trailer when I visit and my DD loves it too! Oh and the easel (£11 with family card) has been her most played with Christmas gift.

I read that there's a bit of war going on at IKEA. Apparantly all the nice stuff, like sofas and rugs and blankets, is named after Swedish towns and villages and all the not so nice (but necessary) stuff, like toilet brushes and floor cleaners, is named after Danish towns and villages. Sweden and Denmark have a England/France sort of relationship. :o

I am also sipping from a Pokal glass. Makes me feel like a proper peasant type to drink wine from them.

Arf @ redpanda using the correct product name. We refer to many of our Swedish things thus - DP's feet are currently on the Palbo, I'm snuggled up under the Vadmal and drinking coke from my ubiquitous Pokal too.

Pokal is indestructible. It laughs in the face of the kitchen tiles.

That has really made me laugh kladdkaka, bog brushes and crap named after Danish towns.

YABU