I will say that IKEA bag is one of the best little bags I've ever bought
Say what you will about the founder and the fact that their stores are hellscapes literally designed to be disorienting so you get lost and spend more time there, but they're A+++ at bags
I never understand how people find IKEA stores hard to navigate. They have one (winding but) linear path going through everything and shortcuts at several points so you can skip stuff. There's signage that explains the whole thing. And you can order stuff for pickup so you don't even have to ever the store itself.
How do people manage to get lost in there?
They do try to manipulate you into eating there by piping air from the restaurant everywhere, though.
I never understand how people find IKEA stores hard to navigate
Congratulations on having good sense of direction and little ability to understand different perspectives, I guess 🤷🏻
They have one (winding but) linear path going through everything and shortcuts at several points so you can skip stuff.
Translation to poor sense of direction: arbitrary restrictions combined with several possibilities for wrong turns. Basically the worst of both worlds.
There's signage that explains the whole thing.
Which is usually incomplete, confusing, or both.
And you can order stuff for pickup so you don't even have to ever the store itself.
That part's true, but by definition irrelevant to the deliberately confusing layout of the stores themselves. Being skippable doesn't make THEM better.
How do people manage to get lost in there?
Easily. In fact, that's the ONLY thing that's easy in an IKEA store for people who don't have the navigational skills of a champion at orienteering.
That might be a great sport for you if you're also a decent to great runner btw.
I went to the one in Portland and I could feel the top floor moving and it made me queasy. I was not thrilled.
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