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To think that IKEA should deliver?

86 replies

RichTeas · 18/07/2012 13:33

Everyone else delivers. You can order practically anything online. So why does IKEA make us trudge out to one of their inconveniently located stores, wander the warehouse then try and fit oversized flatpacks in our city car? Does this company not realise it's 2012.

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firawla · 18/07/2012 13:34

they do deliver the large items

yanbu it is annoying that they wont deliver everything but i suppose it keeps the prices down??

BobbysBeardOfWonder · 18/07/2012 13:34

But they do deliver Confused you can buy most stuff on their website, non?

NickNacks · 18/07/2012 13:35

'tis what keeps it cheap though.

cuntflapwankbadger · 18/07/2012 13:36

They DO deliver for an extra £9.3 Billion

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RichTeas · 18/07/2012 13:39

Can you order online from their website?

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yellowraincoat · 18/07/2012 13:40

I think it's part of their business model. They want you to go to the store so that you buy more stuff.

How often have you gone to Ikea to buy a table and left with just that? It NEVER happens. You go, you buy a table and 20 candles and a cushion cover and a 50p watering can and a new toilet brush and some 20p tea towels and a sieve.

You have driven for an hour, you have to drive for another hour, you've spent 3 days wandering their warehouse, and another 5 trying to find your Lack table in red, so now you go to the cafe and eat a massive Dime cake and a cup of coffee because if you don't you will die.

They have basically successfully made going to Ikea an "experience" rather than boring old shopping. And they know that you'll buy loads of their stuff so that you feel like it was worth going to Ikea.

NarkedRaspberry · 18/07/2012 13:41

They do deliver Confused

TheOriginalSteamingNit · 18/07/2012 13:41

What yellow said!

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 18/07/2012 13:42

Excellent analysis yellowraincoat!

LadySybildeChocolate · 18/07/2012 13:42

It's £3.50 for small items via parcelforce, £35 for the large monsters. They don't deliver everything though, annoyingly.

homebythesea · 18/07/2012 13:42

Or do what I have done which is to get a company to go buy, deliver and assemble. Google Ikea flat pack assembly - its the way forward I tell you!

yellowraincoat · 18/07/2012 13:43

Thanks, thanks.

What can I say, I did an entire module of Economic Studies at university. AND I got a C.

MrsKwazii · 18/07/2012 13:44

If you buy large items in store you can arrange for them to be delivered by a local delivery company after you've paid for it all. Three price bands as far as I can remember when we bought wardrobes. I live pretty close to three Ikeas though so this doesn't annoy me - I get to stock up on marzipan cakes while I'm there too Grin

Pickles77 · 18/07/2012 13:45

yellow and I truley thought I was alone in
attempting to survive ikea in that way...
But no- turns out its all part of their evil plan to rinse meGrin

TwoIfBySea · 18/07/2012 13:45

They do deliver, and assemble - but where is the fun in that? Love a bit of flat-pack building!

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RichTeas · 18/07/2012 13:46

On their website it says £15 for a shop of 0-£250. That's not what I call deliver. I am thinking Amazon style deliver. £5 CD delivered to you for free in a few days.

I can see yellow's business model argument, but surely that model is getting a bit stale these days. After all, we all know that you go to Ikea and end up with a ton of stuff you don't really need.

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HipHopOpotomus · 18/07/2012 13:47

Meatballs - don't forget the meatballs. All part of the BIG IKEA picture.

OP they have delivered for quite some time now ....

yellowraincoat · 18/07/2012 13:50

But people still go RichTeas. And they go on the strength of meatballs and children's play areas and 20p tea towels. They've built this "idea" of going to Ikea, it's so much more than going to Argos or B&Q or whatever.

Their profits went up by 10% this year, so people are still buying into it.

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RichTeas · 18/07/2012 13:54

Yellow, I'm not saying dismantle Ikea. Heavens no. We go often enough, despite resolutions not too. I'm saying they need a fully fledged web delivery too. The retail world has changed a lot since the blue and yellow started to invade.

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loopydoo · 18/07/2012 13:55

The whole about Ikea though is their low prices - kept low by low overheads. If they delivered, their itme prices would go up - hence the high delivery costs for things they do deliver.

Scholes34 · 18/07/2012 13:55

You'd miss out on the meatballs and the free refills of drinks if you just have your goods delivered. It's a fun day out. Even DH was amazed at how much he'd not not enjoyed it last time we went.

I first went to IKEA in the late 80s, when their goods were so much cheaper and interesting that what you could get in the usual shops in town. Now there's not such a difference, so why don't you just shop elsewhere, OP?

Piemistress · 18/07/2012 13:55

They only deliver within a certain distance though? I live 130 miles fromIkea and AFAIK they don't deliver that far

Laquitar · 18/07/2012 13:56

Yellow, thats me Blush

yellowraincoat · 18/07/2012 13:56

RichTeas But people like the business model of Ikea. If they put everything on their website, their profits would go down. I'm sure of it.

yellowraincoat · 18/07/2012 13:58

Laquitar Me too. Going to Ikea is a treat for me. I love the food, I love that stuff is cheap yet decent quality, I like the plain style of everything.

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