>gf forces me to go to Ikea outside Boston
>be really fucking skeptical
>fucking swedekeks
>get there
>everything is super organized
>very logical layout
>super convenient and cheap selection
>seems like quality products
>can't pronounce anything but it all looks great
>employees are mostly white
>male and female items are markedly distinguished and seperated
What the fuck.... Sweden yes?
>>55750261
>Americans actually think Ikea is Sweden.
>>55750261
>>seems like quality products
...
>>55750427
It's effeminately a step up from the overpriced Chinese shit they usually buy.
>>55750427
I think that the Ikea Internet Sales Force just arrived on Pol.
>>55750261
Ikea is great, but it is a legacy of Sweden from prior to the leftification and immigrant invasion. Ikea is more Swedish than Sweden.
>>55750536
They have to improve.
>>55750261
When Ikea falls, Sweden has indeed become the new caliphate.
>>55750261
IKEA is terrible. Everything is overpriced for what it is, and lacks any degree of style or durability.
Online furniture dealers like Wayfair offer better looking products for less money.
Kikea
They will break in 3 months or less...
Most of the employees at IKEA near me are black, but they're all nice.
I don't buy much there except frames, but I do have one of those lounge-y wooden chairs.
But OP word of warning their stuff is low quality shit not much better than Wal-Mart...you're paying for the experience of shopping there (which admittedly ain't bad).
>>55750766
tfw you spend an hour looking at interesting well designed home products and then eat some hot swedish food in the cafe
Here's the DURPFELWASSR
Here the KANGAOORE
Here the GRULYY
Those fucking names
>>55750261
>seems like quality products
kek-a-lek
>>55750635
Wasn't the founder of IKEA a Nazi or something?
I seem to recall a scandal a while back.
>>55750261
there was a time when some Ikea products had some small amount of quality
that ain't now. fucking flakeboard
Anon visits Ikea for the first time, 20 years after everyone else
>>55750912
They make the stuff look so nice in the store with the lighting and matching colours
…then you get it home and realize it looks like shit and is made from wobbly particle board
>>55750261
In the one near me I'm literally the only white person in the store.
I went to Ikea once here in Japan and it was quite surreal, it felt just like if I was in Sweden once again
Worked for IKEA in the warehouse once. I used to climb up the tall inventory shelves, sleep and eat meatballs all day.
The difference between an IKEA in Boston and an IKEA in Sweden? Beheadings.
>>55751169
I started getting poster frames there because I had a number of Japanese and Euro posters I couldn't find pre-made frames for anywhere else, and they've held up really well. I get picture frames there now too.
But yeah, you can find way nicer furniture for cheaper even at Goodwills and thrifts if you're dilegint about it.
>>55750944
feelsnotbad.gif
I really like Ikea. Its cheap, most of their stuff looks decent and their restaurants are pretty okay.
>>55750261
>>everything is super organized
>>very logical layout
except no. everything is organized to jew you into buying the most unnecessary garbage
>impossible to go directly to specific product picked out online or from the catalog
>labyrinthine layout requires you to go through the entire fucking store any time you enter
>one way escalators (no second escalator to go back the way you came) forcing you to proceed ever deeper into the building
>typical consumerist retard comes out with ten different things they didn't go in to buy
>everyone else has 45 minutes of their life wasted trying to get one dresser
Sweden no. Ikea fuck no.
>>55751553
>even at Goodwills and thrifts
>even
I got a $3000 Winnetka china cabinet from a resale shop for $100. Resale is thebomb.com and much better than Ikea. All you have to do is make a day of it and visit every shop in the area. 90% of my clothes are second hand, and most of it is shit I would never be able to afford otherwise.
>>55751207
>IKEA in Japan
wow never realized that they reached that far already
wont be long before you can buy your IKEA katana
>>55750261
IKEA stuff is designed in sweden, but all of the hardware and small parts are made in china. some of the better pieces are made in germany or other.
>>55750427
hope ur safe senpai
>>55751973
Lol, my wife just corrected me. It's a "buffet with HUTCH".
>>55750351
hey senpai
>>55752156
Dunno about USA but in Europe most stuffs are made in Poland since wood was cheaper there than in Sweden
>>55752256
cuc.k.
>>55752374
yeah ive seen a lot of made in poland and austria stickers too. ive built a lot of ikea crap
>>55750261
>gf forces me
Are you sure that you aren't single and that you didn't go alone?
>>55751027
I know a guy who knew him
he allegedly had his own little plane with which he drove to work every day so rich was he
>>55750261
Can't disagree with anything but
>quality products
No just, no
>moving out of my parents house
>shopping in ikea for shit I will need
>smell a delicious aroma
>mother fucking meatballs
>try some
>they are G*sh d*rn delicious
>>55752086
I want an Ikea katan now.
>>55752818
Ikea meatballs are not bad.
>>55750261
>seems like quality products
Aha.
Aha ha ha.
It's straight-up cardboard.
>>55752866
Imagine the assembly instruction
such evil must never see the daylight
>>55750261
you avoided ikea, one of the biggest brands in the world, because you don't like some things about sweden?
weeeooooooww
>>55750261
Yeah Rapeistan really has it all figured out.
>>55750261
Should have gone to the restaurant, get som lovely Swedish meatballs.
Also there are no windows in Ikea because they don't want you to keep track of the sun/time so that you will be longer in the shop.
everything is Ukrainian particle board
theyre good for your first apartment but you can't unassemble it and reassemble it without it exploding so you need to do it all again if you move
p nice cafe though meatball plates are dece value you can get 20 and potato and berries for 3.99 syrupbucks
>>55751449
Boston Bombings and Swedish Beheadings, Ikea was behind this all along!
>>55753136
>they don't want you to keep track of the sun/time
People have phones. Are you retarded? Do you use candles?
>>55753136
>Also there are no windows in Ikea because they don't want you to keep track of the sun/time so that you will be longer in the shop.
That's what casinos do, as well.
>>55753261
>but you can't unassemble it and reassemble
It depends. I bought a fucking awesome table for 130€, and I can disassemble and reassemble it without breaking it.
>>55750944
>ikea
>swedish food
>horsemeat
>>55750261
>>seems like quality products
Not really. IKEA is the master of "good enough". Your stuff will last about one move.
Basically it's great depending on what you buy from them. You gotta be a savvy shopper. Don't get their sofas. Chairs are ok and office furniture are good. Tables and drawers are pretty great lately, they used to be rickety. They changed the manufacturing a lot to the better.
Storage things are generally great. Their kitchen supplies are ok.
The big trap right now is overpaying for IKEA stuff. They are attempting to compete upward instead of downward, meaning there are a lot of items that aren't really a bargain compared to other stores.
The real plus is that you get to try and examine the products in the store. Do so. And be critical. Get under the desks and figure out how they're put together, make a judgement on how well it'll hold up.
>>55753014
topkek, imagine all the lost fingers.
>>55752156
Hinges are actually Blum which are high quality Austrian hinges.
>>55750261
I was just dragged there a little while ago too. I swiped like 10 pencils
>>55752393
I have 5 kids senpai. If I'm a c.uck at this point I don't care.
>>55753427
Grocery stores too. We also pump oxygen and remove odors which make no sense in traditional markets but for the supermarket crowd if somebody gets smell triggered they stop buying.
My entire job is store optimizing so fat fucks spend more without realizing it
>>55754659
>I have 5 kids
SAVIOR OF THE WHITE RACE
>>55754171
it seems like they purposefully have several tiers of quality.
like, you can get working class, lower middle, and middle class stuff there. with it's associated quality.
Ikea is a Dutch company now sheeple.
>>55752156
wrong. It´s all produced in Poland. I visited the factory there once
>>55750261
>>gf forces me
yeah, lost respect for you after that
>>55750973
>Here's the ITALIENARJÄVEL
>Here's the SALTFITTA
> Wanting your house to look like a dorm.
>'Fuel Efficient Vehicles Only' parking right in front of Ikea
>I park my huge lifted truck in one of those spots
>Go inside
>Go upstairs
>Acquire delicious swedish meatballs, potatoes and gravy for lunch
>Walk to a table near the window where I can see my truck
>Some blonde whore and her mother walk by
>See her whip out her phone and take 3 - 4 pictures
>I ain't even mad
>Do a burnout in the spot before I leave
mfw the tire marks are still there like three months later
>>55755060
>it seems like they purposefully have several tiers of quality.
>like, you can get working class, lower middle, and middle class stuff there. with it's associated quality.
This is exactly right. It's partly covering their bases with customers, partly upselling you while you're there.
IKEA really is trying to make their brand more upscale, they don't want to compete with Walmart crap. There's no profit margin in the race to the bottom.
So if you browse their site you'll note they talk a lot about temporary collections by various designers. They're really trying to put that mark of (dubious) quality on most things, you'll find little notes in the store on who designed what, assuring you that.. well, it had a designer.
Which obviously is ridiculous, it was all designed by someone. But by adding the personal touch you get the feeling that someone handcrafted that particular flatpack furniture to be just right, for you.
