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[dave the builder]

I think Ikea would be shut now anyway tier 5
crap furniture is not essential 

[Sir Tigger KC]

I went to IKEA once....

Never been. If i tried to go to the MK one i'd most probably get lost anyway. 

No you can't get lost Ronny as they have a set path which you have to follow all round the store. 

You go in the entrance and get herded along with all the clucky women with their pissed off/bored blokes until eventually you get spat out the other end at the exit. 

It's designed for women who like to gaze at everything for sale, but crap for blokes who know what they need, and want just go in, get it and leave quickly! 

[Kevin Wood]

Last time I went I loaded up the car then nipped in to have a pee before heading home. Yep, there's no way to get to the loo without going round the whole rather maze again.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Wasnt there a Bathroom display section before you got to the loo,s ? 

[Kevin Wood]

Wasnt there a Bathroom display section before you got to the loo,s ? 

If I'd needed to "drop the kids off at the pool" I'd have been tempted.

[ronnyd]

I went to IKEA once....

Never been. If i tried to go to the MK one i'd most probably get lost anyway. 

No you can't get lost Ronny as they have a set path which you have to follow all round the store. 

You go in the entrance and get herded along with all the clucky women with their pissed off/bored blokes until eventually you get spat out the other end at the exit. 

It's designed for women who like to gaze at everything for sale, but crap for blokes who know what they need, and want just go in, get it and leave quickly! 

The two times i've been to MK i've taken wrong turnings. It was quite a while ago mind.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Wasnt there a Bathroom display section before you got to the loo,s ? 

If I'd needed to "drop the kids off at the pool" I'd have been tempted.

I wonder if the truth about TB's IKEA ban is that he'd had a Lamb Naga the night before and.....   

[Kevin Wood]

Wasnt there a Bathroom display section before you got to the loo,s ? 

If I'd needed to "drop the kids off at the pool" I'd have been tempted.

I wonder if the truth about TB's IKEA ban is that he'd had a Lamb Naga the night before and.....   

... the meatballs and stodge weren't fast-acting enough?

[TheBoy]

I went to IKEA once....

Never been. If i tried to go to the MK one i'd most probably get lost anyway. 

No you can't get lost Ronny as they have a set path which you have to follow all round the store. 

You go in the entrance and get herded along with all the clucky women with their pissed off/bored blokes until eventually you get spat out the other end at the exit. 

It's designed for women who like to gaze at everything for sale, but crap for blokes who know what they need, and want just go in, get it and leave quickly! 

The two times i've been to MK i've taken wrong turnings. It was quite a while ago mind.

MK is a piece of piss to get around, but you do have to look at the road names (well, numbers), as if you don't know the place, all the roundabouts look the same.  But the H and V numbers make it a piece of piss

[TheBoy]

Obviously right up to the point where the grid goes through the original towns of Wolverton, Stony Stratford and Bletchley (where Ikea is), where the rid goes to pot

[ronnyd]

Obviously right up to the point where the grid goes through the original towns of Wolverton, Stony Stratford and Bletchley (where Ikea is), where the rid goes to pot

So, i DO have a valid excuse. 

[TheBoy]

Obviously right up to the point where the grid goes through the original towns of Wolverton, Stony Stratford and Bletchley (where Ikea is), where the rid goes to pot

So, i DO have a valid excuse. 

Not really, as those old towns are like any town...

[Raeturbo]

Last time I went I loaded up the car then nipped in to have a pee before heading home. Yep, there's no way to get to the loo without going round the whole rather maze again.

.    Fk me! It sounds like a never ending piss jamboree to me, by the time I had one I would need another, do they do BOGOF?

[New POD]

In 1990, whilst living not far from the M5/M42 junction, South West Of Brum, we decided to buy an Ikea kitchen.
This was before the internet. Ikea being North about 40 mins drive on a Saturday. We worked out carefully every part we needed, and went around and filled up the car. And roof rack, but they didn't have the knobs we wanted. Oh well. We decide to fit the rest and go back.
Half way through fitting the work top I noticed an issue so had to go back and swap it. Whilst I was there I tried to get the knobs. Not in stock. Couldn't reserve them.either. And they couldn't say when they'd be in stock.
I passed the Junction on work trips occassionally, so over the next 3 weeks I popped in twice. Still no knobs.
Finally we went on a Saturday Morning with a screw driver, and in front of the only salesman, in the kitchen show area , we removed the knobs we wanted, and got him.to put them.in a bag, with a hand written price tag.
It wasn't the out of stock bit that screwed my mind, but the fact there was no way of reserving them.

Has it got any better with the internet?

About 4 years ago I was forced to go and buy a double bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers and 2 bedside drawer units from Warrington.  It just fitted in the omega. Took all oppsing day. Had to go to a separate warehouse to queue up for half the stuff.

The quality and ease of assembly are acceptable to me. I just hate the place and customer experience.

[Kevin Wood]

I think, like Ryanair, the customer experience is deliberately poor to remind you how cheap stuff is. Not a strategy that works, for me at any rate.