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On 4/24/2015 8:04 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:28:55 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>> We're going to be going to Ikea! I have never been in one. I used to want
>> to go but now that I can't eat the Swedish Meatballs, there is no real
>> desire to go on my part. But they are not near here and I can get a ride so
>> I shall go.
>>
>> I don't think they have anything there that I can eat in their cafe but I
>> will still go and look.
>>
>> Is there anything else I should make a point of looking at? From what I
>> have read online, I will have to wend my way through the store to get to
>> what we are going there to buy, which is a desk. I would just get it online
>> but I am not paying for it so...
>>
>> I know they have lingonberries but I am surrounded by those here anyway so
>> no need to look for those. And given the poor quality of the kitchen carts
>> that I bought a few years ago, I am leery of anything they sell. The one
>> cart seemed fine at first. But something was wrong with the second one and
>> the middle shelf/bin just wouldn't hold any weight. It would immediately
>> slide down to the bottom. And now the other one is doing the same. I
>> actually cringed when I saw them being used in a kid's toy room on some
>> house show the other day. I was like... Noooooo!
>>
>> I can't really think of a thing that I need in the kitchen department but
>> perhaps there are foods? Do they sell much in the way of foods? I am
>> mostly familiar with the furniture which for the most part I think of as
>> junk. Good looking but junk. We'll see how the desk holds up.

>
> Swedish MalWart! :-)
>
> Hopefully not as Evil!!
>
> It's Swedish, I have hope!! :-)
>
> John Kuthe...

Their cheap stuff is, I feel, even lower quality than Wal Mart's, fwiw.