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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Exactly. There’s nothing - almost nothing maybe - in larger stores or chains that is not designed to make you buy things. Even the way through, Ikea is obviously god emperor there but other follow closely.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always feel like a rat in a maze when I go to IKEA.

[–] grue 26 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's literally a single path with no branches (except for the shortcuts), Pinky.

[–] turnipjs 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And after you've been a couple times you learn the shortcuts to the meat balls pretty well.

[–] SpaceNoodle 10 points 1 month ago

Oh man, I worked right by the new IKEA that got built and before long I could get through that thing in a minute flat

[–] GrabtharsHammer 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a spiritual maze, Brain. Are you done looking at the curtain rings yet?

[–] grue 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

*struggling to carry a huge armful of curtain rings*

...what a savings!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ozymandias117 3 points 1 month ago

I assume that's how SCP-3008 was created

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, the one (and very likely only) time I went to IKEA, I bought almost nothing, because the whole store was just one big stampede, pressing through that singular path.

[–] shonn 5 points 1 month ago

Never go on a weekend.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

At first, when Ikea finally came to where I live, I thought that was a cool way to keep traffic flowing and the stress level low. $600 later, after only planning to buy a couple pillows, I realized why the stores are layed out like that.