To think that IKEA should deliver?

[RichTeas]

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.

Ok Yellowman, I bow to your C-grade Economic Studies course at university. All hail IKEA, long live bricks and mortar IKEA.

What yellowraincoat said. Plus there's the "I don't know if I want it but I'm here now and I don't want to have to come back so I'll buy it now" thing. How many of us have come away from Ikea with stuff we don't need/want?

You go, and you look at the tidy rooms and the lives of uncluttered open-plan living they offer... then you stop for food, and then the real business starts, now you're fed and watered and had a wee and a think. Then you get chance to swap your yellow bag for a trolley, and then you see the cheap glasses and pretty napkins and billions upon billions of tea lights in a bag, because if you can't buy the rooms or the lives that go with them, at least you can have some jars like those people would probably have.

STOP IT! OriginalSteaming...you're getting me excited!!

Richteas I wasn't trying to say that you're in the wrong for not liking Ikea. I'm saying that's why they continue to not sell so much stuff online.

Really, no need to get arsy.

. . . and we all know deep down inside that the secret to uncluttered rooms is not to buy more clutter . . . but it's just so nice and so cheap!

I'm glad they don't deliver. There are no Ikeas anywhere near me so it stops me being tempted to buy any of their shite flatpacked crap items.

Oh yes, they will deliver but if they break anything glass (eg mirrored wardrobe doors), they accept no responsibility!! So they don't have very good delivery terms.

I never really use those bag-clip things. Have about five, usually they stay in the cutlery drawer.

Last time I went to Ikea, before I knew what I was doiing I'd put a jar and a big bag of bag clips in it, because one of the kitchens set up had a jar full of bag clips, and I thought: that looks sweet, I should have one like that. So I was buying the storage and the stuff to store in it! .

I put them back in the end!

Ikea has the same business philosophy as the pound shops; sell things for cheap, sell more of them as people like a 'bargain', even if they do spend more then they had planned.

I love Ikea...

Those meatballs, and the tiny candles and the little soft toys and the bedding and the biscuits!

We bought our fitted kitchen from them and they organised a delivery firm to transport it to us, and yes we had to pay for the delivery or hire a van to do it ourselves. The delivery guys were really chuffed that they could reverse their van right up to our garage door and unload the boxes straight inside. They were used to carting stuff up several flights of stairs to flats where the lifts weren't working in London!

I did notice at the Wembley branch, crowds of women with young kids using the store as a 'trip out' and a giant playground where the kids could climb on everything and play with all the toys, and not one of them had bought a thing.

There are three Ikeas each about an hour away from where I live, so I have to actually want something before I go.

There's one not too far from me now. I don't have the spare cash to go yet, and I can't drive which is a PITA.

My life was complete when I found you could buy the meatball gravy and jam from the Ikea shop.

I keep wishing they would have small shops in town centres where you can buy their fabric and other smaller bits.

I live ten minutes from Ikea.

I go quite a lot

girlywhirly - I'm in a similar position to you: three IKEAs all about an hour away. Now they're planning to build one 10 minutes away. I'll have to buy a bigger house to hold all the crap I'll buy when I go in for meatballs.

DP has threatened to leave if I buy even one more fake flower

I'm desperate for an excuse to go to Ikea (school holidays - kids to entertain??)
YABU!

I move house yearly, just as an excuse to go to Ikea

Agrees with Yelloraincoat

I bloody love Ikea. Went there on Monday for my birthday, bought a fucktonne of furniture and spent the afternoon in flatpack HEAVEN (helped along a bit by rum).

The whole model of Ikea keeps the prices down. If they picked and delivered the stuff like other companies, they'd have to pass on that cost to customers by making the products more expensive. And I'm rather fond of my £16 coffee table ahfankooverrehmerch.

I don't go because I loathe the place. One trip was enough for me. I spent hours wandering around a staff-free warehouse, trying to find a certain type of chair.

Then when I had bought stuff, I had to leave my ALREADY PAID FOR stuff on its own outside the store while I brought my car to the loading bay, because you can't take the trolleys into the carpark proper. Nobody nicked it, buit they easily couls have done.

The whole thing is not arranged for the convenience of the shopper, and I tend to stick with online purchases anyway.

I ikea.
Yes we use it as a trip out with the kids!
Love meatballs.
Own and use bag clips.
Moving house soon -woohoo -new ikea beds and kitchen table from ikea as that's all I can afford.
Long live Ikea

I might go to ikea tonight now. DAMMIT!