IKEA queues?

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I think i'm missing something here. Why would it have to be table service only or be limited in any way by the August 10 rule? You can go and have a buffet in a restaurant in Dublin city centre today, with or without alcohol.

Buffets are meant to be out currently due to the lack of distancing, potential for cross contamination etc.. Company like IKEA is not going to be seen to even pick at the corner of the rules, would be disasterous for PR.

Sanitising the tables between customers would be a nightmare too with the throughput there - very hard to keep notice of what tables have been used.

Every morning is bad; as pointed out the first group gets let in then nobody leaves for at least 20mins; with no large amount leaving for even longer.

The problem with IKEA is basically - what are the alternatives?

For furniture its particularly stark. Woodies, Homebase, Argos sell poorer quality flatpack for higher prices

The few remaining general furniture stores sell anything from poorer quality flatpack through to high quality, hardwood furniture, but at vastly higher prices and with less range. There are sofa specialists and bed specialists but not much else, even Harvey Norman is basically a sofa and bed specialist now.

Absolutely nowhere has the same range of homewares and a lot of what the big homeware stores have is either extremely tacky, extremely expensive or both. Homesense sells whatever they can find with zero consistency. Lots of the brands in other stores are very poor quality.


So people end up going there because its easy. They sell practically everything in one place and its all of acceptable quality and price. Before they came here it was a lot harder and a lot dearer to get what you wanted. I remember wobbly black ash flatpack costing megabucks from Woodies, and peeling melamine coated computer desks in every house.