Proof the world has gone mad

Yes this queue was 45 minutes to get into the car park, and a further 3 hours in the standing queue waiting to get in.
I can’t stand the place I went once and came out with some teaspoons. The queue to get out was horrendous and that was a good few years ago.

I'm quite fond of Ikea but I wouldn't want to go right now. You can get all their stuff online anyway so why bother? I'm not going out there and risking my health for tea lights and a bumper pack of Dime (sorry, Daim) bars!

Luckygirl

The magnetic blinds have a slot top, so they can be put up with one of the springy curtain poles, if they're going inside a recess.

They would be after the frozen meatballs! Given the queues at McD when the drive through opened seems people can't live without their special foods. Can you imagine the queues once pubs open.

lol you have made me laugh here, and I so need that.

yes, someone mentioned McDonalds, queues there also, and for icecream, and to go into supermarkets.. well nothing else to do is there.. think about it!

and yes, as someone said... too many need to get back to work..

oh dear!

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But we're British.
We love a good queue.
Probably just indulging in our national pass time....... ?

Some waited over 3 hours in the queue in blistering hot weather...insane!

Those people are a species I don't recognise.

Craftycat
I get claustrophobia too and last time we went to IKEA M/Keynes I came over a little queer (!) and one of the nice assistants said I could stand on a fire escape looking out onto the car park. Felt OK after that, knowing there was daylight just outside (obviously but it did help).

Their Daim chocs in a tube are very nice.

Love Ikea - DH hates it! We live 2 hours away from the nearest one, so don’t get to go very often. I would not queue for hours on end to get to one though!

Yes, their orchids are very well priced, and similar to my local Tesco as well.
I almost always buy their packs of scissors; not hugely sharp but were 3 for £1 as I recall. I try always to have a pair of scissors in the pot of biros and pencils in every room. Love to know where they all have gone to, though!
Only gripe is the bedding, in continental sizes so nothing ever fits the beds or duvets properly.

Idiot's

I can't go into Ikea as there are no windows & I get claustrophobic. Big relief as I don't like the shop.
My DH loves shopping & queued outside The Range yesterday for an hour to collect something he had ordered & paid for online to find he could have walked in to their pick up point!!

I only buy Orchid Phalaenopsis from Ikea. About £5 for a single and £8 for a double; always lovely and fresh and long lasting. We only go when we occasionally pass the door on the way somewhere else. You can nip in past the tills and straight to the plant dept.. In and out in a flash, because I can't stand the place but love a bargain. But not at the moment. Buying cut flowers from a small outlet; in and out in a flash is all I do. Actual shopping is horrible atm

I need new blinds for my bathroom and upstairs loo, and would also prefer not to have to screw anything in, so would also be interested in magnetic ones. Luckygirl if these are not suitable, have you considered velcro?

Absolute madness. It will be the same (for those same morons) when McDonald's open.

Let’s be charitable though. Maybe these people have just moved in and are having to sit on beer crates with not even an Asatilda cushion between them and the bones of their backsides.

I like Ikea fir bits and bobs but I wouldn’t queue. Why on Earth...?
I just don’t understand people. Maybe they really all need to go back to work if they are treating this lock down as a holiday.

Hi merlotgran - could you tell me about the magnetic blinds please? Does this mean you do not have to screw anything into the wall? I am thinking about when (if) I move - these sound as though they might be easy to fit. Are they?

I'm about to order one of their magnetic Roman blinds for the bedroom. Really easy to put up and no cord to faff about with.

I'm with your husband Maggiemaybe one of the circles of hell and not even any food

There will be long queues for the tills too, so they will have queued to get in AND out.