The worst place in the world

[rayge]

Bleak and ugly, the destroyer of souls: abandon hope all ye who enter here (or even wait outside in the carpark).

One shown is in Exeter, but all iterations of this aesthetic abomination, assault on design and purveyor or poor mental health qualify for the soubriquet in the thread title.

Amirite?

[DarknessFish]

You are indeed right. I did buy my record shelving from there though (not the one in Exeter), and it's still pretty bloody solid.

It's the arrows on the floor that get me. Forever giving hope that there's an iminent way out.

[sloopjohnc]

I'd add any big box store to that list. Walmart, Lowe's and Home Depot, Costco.

The tradeoffs just aren't worth it.

My dad, who was a big DIYer and had his contractor's license, wouldn't step into a Home Depot unless he absolutely had to.

Later in life, he did, for contractor's hours at Home Depot, early in the morning, but he didn't like it.

Just down the street from me, I have a nice in-betweener of a big box hardware store, called Jerry's. The staff is very helpful, if not always super informative o where stuff is because it's so big. But it's locally owned so I patronize them.

My house is right under that overpass about a quarter mile, turn to the right.

[souphound]

May 25, 2022 14:50:06 GMT sloopjohnc said:

My house is right under that overpass about a quarter mile, turn to the right.

Your house is under the overpass?

[Sneelock]

I don't understand "big box" stores. I find it very hard to believe that ANY intelligent design theory would intend that so many people should be in one place at the same time.

Having said that, if there is the sort of Zombie apocalypse you see on TV these days - I'll head straight to the nearest IKEA.

on second thought - I'd need to bring some provisions. their food is NASTY!

[sloopjohnc]

May 25, 2022 15:56:55 GMT Sneelock said:

I don't understand "big box" stores. I find it very hard to believe that ANY intelligent design theory would intend that so many people should be in one place at the same time.

Having said that, if there is the sort of Zombie apocalypse you see on TV these days - I'll head straight to the nearest IKEA.

on second thought - I'd need to bring some provisions. their food is NASTY!

Jerry's has a burrito booth, hot dog and sausage booth and a coffee booth in front of the store. 

There are so many people at them around lunch when I've gone to the store, I think people just visit those for lunch and don't even go in the store to buy anything.

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

May 25, 2022 14:50:06 GMT sloopjohnc said:

Just down the street from me, I have a nice in-betweener of a big box hardware store, called Jerry's. The staff is very helpful, if not always super informative o where stuff is because it's so big. But it's locally owned so I patronize them.

You're lucky, sloop. All the mom & pop hardware stores in my neighbourhood (when I moved here there were at least 5, maybe more) have closed, and I have no choice but to drive 45 minutes to a Home fucking Depot.

[sloopjohnc]

May 25, 2022 16:25:30 GMT Half Machine Lipschitz said:

May 25, 2022 14:50:06 GMT sloopjohnc said:

Just down the street from me, I have a nice in-betweener of a big box hardware store, called Jerry's. The staff is very helpful, if not always super informative o where stuff is because it's so big. But it's locally owned so I patronize them.

You're lucky, sloop. All the mom & pop hardware stores in my neighbourhood (when I moved here there were at least 5, maybe more) have closed, and I have no choice but to drive 45 minutes to a Home fucking Depot.

45 minutes? To a hardware store? Jeezus.

The cashiers have been trained to say four words when they give you your receipt, "See you next time."

It's a little thing, but pure genius.

[Deleted]

Love IKEA. Always have. You can do a lot with a little imagination to their products . They have given a home to more record collections than anyone else.

[oh oooh]

May 25, 2022 17:42:48 GMT @littlejimmyosmond said:

Love IKEA. Always have. You can do a lot with a little imagination to their products . They have given a home to more record collections than anyone else.

Indeed.

I hate all this 'edgy' bollocks - 'ooh IKEA is the pits of hell'. Fuck off.

[Sneelock]

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[rayge]

May 25, 2022 17:55:47 GMT oh oooh said:

May 25, 2022 17:42:48 GMT @littlejimmyosmond said:

Love IKEA. Always have. You can do a lot with a little imagination to their products . They have given a home to more record collections than anyone else.

Indeed.

I hate all this 'edgy' bollocks - 'ooh IKEA is the pits of hell'. Fuck off.

It's a shit aesthetic, loads of flimsy rubbish, wouldn't dream of putting anything precious anywhere near their 'products'.

No, you fuck off and eat your fascist meatballs while cooing over a bit of debased Modernist TAT.

So there!

[Deleted]

In a world of flimsy overpriced rubbish like DFS sofas or oooooh I got it from Etsy, ya!! IKEA will roll on and carry on being the retail giant it is.
Meanwhile, little Britain goes to Poundland or B&M to save for the leccie bill. The simple fact is that the modern homeowner doesn't care for mahogany or wood veneer finished furniture that lasts thirty years. It's a throwaway ,now society and the big retailers know it.

[Sneelock]

there was a time long ago (in a galaxy far, far away) when IKEA was a very good value. I don't remember a whole lot of "put it together yourself" stuff before IKEA.there were bookshelves and shit like that but all of a sudden - wow! I can buy a desk! for CHEAP!

you'd tie that flat box on top of your car and take it home. you'd throw away the instructions, drink a bottle of booze and put the fucker together. you had a desk. hooray.
BUT, then every-fuckin' -body started selling furniture that way. it most certainly is NOT a value to shop at IKEA now unless you make the Bargain GULAG at the end.

[Sneelock]

I haven't been to our NEW IKEA out here yet. Good Riddance to the old one. Once you get used to the Shark like "move forward or die" design of the place - it's really not so bad unless you decided to double back.
the reason the place needed to be scorched off the face of the earth IMO was the loading dock. you'd see people with burly movers carrying their stuff to the parking structure. why? to avoid the loading dock.

The old IKEA loading dock was a place that defied science and logic. just stepping into the area you could feel the brain cells start to frizzle like smoking Angel dust or watching right wing news.
people staggered around with their big flat boxes with no idea how to get them into their car or how to get their car into the loading dock. to make matters worse there were people there with absolutely no idea where they were or what they were doing. maybe they suddenly appeared from the Bermuda Triangle. maybe they are drawn to the IKEA loading dock like moths to a flame.

that place was100 percent, solid gold BRAIN DAMAGE. I refused to navigate the loading dock. I can't afford the shock treatment I would need if I ever do that again.

anyway, I haven't been to our NEW IKEA yet. I always ask people who have gone if the loading dock is better. they tell me it's WORSE!!