Do We Ever Really Care Who Lived In Our...
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1) Has anyone ever managed to navigate IKEA in Croydon without getting lost and having to ask a staff member the way out ? Also, what was the retail reasoning that made them build a store where the first thing you encounter is a large staircase up ? Bloody good place though if you avoid the hot dogs, which are encased in thick plastic.
2) Has anyone ever gone into Asda, seen horrendous queues (partly because everyone is paying by plastic), and turned straight round and gone to their local Spar ? Then realised you've just wasted 50p on petrol so what was the point in the first place.
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"That'll be �3.17, madame"
Customer fumbles in huge handbag, eventually finds glasses and peers closely at the till for confirmation. More fumbling in handbag and out comes a cheque book and pen. Insists on writing the cheque by hand rather than letting the store print it. More fumbling in handbag for purse, opens purse to reveal 30 or more bits of plastic, eventually finds cheque guarantee card. Then decides to pack shopping - but the tops of the plastic carriers are stuck together. And so on.
I was not criticising IKEA - good stuff at incredible prices (I have 4 colourful LACK tables in my conservatory). Except when picking up stuff, I always always cycle. I just head vaguely towards the 2 huge towers and I eventually bump into the store.
I still however maintain that the layout of the store is, well, idiosyncratic. It's different now, but early on if you just wanted something from the Market Hall, candles say, you had to wander around all the top floor just to get there (or sneak in the exit)
mfewell,
I wasn't picking on you especially,just all the answers in general.
Just as there is a "short cut" to the cafe on the 1st floor,if you ask the (helpful) staff they will show the ground floor "shorcut" to the Market Hall.I suddenly get the feeling that I have been going to IKEA too much!
When you realise that my nearest IKEA is either Thurrock or Croydon,both about 30 miles away,they must be having an effect on me! LOL
answers to your questions:
1. Ikea needs to put more signs up for directions.
2. Dont go to the supermarket if you only buying a few essentials (milk, bread) go to spar.
I think Ikea is always packed with customers anyway and there is always traffic jams near Ikea at most times causing local residents lots of inconvenience and its not that cheap.