On 4/24/2015 1:12 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "W. Lohman" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 4/24/2015 8:04 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
>>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:28:55 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>
> Uh oh. That's what I was afraid of.


Yeah, it's a mixed bag there.

Some stuff is really worth the rat-maze experience, but not a lot.