I don’t mind Ikea at all.
We’ve got quite a few Ikea bits and bobs and normally get meatballs for lunch everytime we go there.
However, when we bought our house, on the day we moved in, we loaded a van up with our belongings, drove to Ikea in Croydon, bought a load of furniture and added that to the van, then drove to Bromley to buy a dining table from a shop that was closing down, before driving to the new house and unloading everything. All to save a days hire on the van.
My tv had somehow never had a Daim bar before, so last time we went to Ikea, so we got a bag of mini Daims. Think she managed to eat about two before I scoffed the whole bag
Yeah, there’s a flat £35 delivery charge on whatever you buy. I guess delivery just isn’t their business model so they want to discourage it. But given the distance I live from one, last time we went we had to get an Uber back to carry all the stuff, which cost the same amount… so might as well get it delivered and spare myself the pain of wanting to impulse buy loads of tat.