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[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 week ago (17 children)

It's not stupid, it's deliberate. I had a friend who did consulting work (in a different area) with a large grocery chain, and they deliberately change the layout so you're spending more time in the store, looking at things, because chances are that you'll buy more. If the store becomes a little too crowded, they'll just change the music to hurry you along.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Exactly. There’s nothing - almost nothing maybe - in larger stores or chains that is not designed to make you buy things. Even the way through, Ikea is obviously god emperor there but other follow closely.

[–] the_artic_one 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I always feel like a rat in a maze when I go to IKEA.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's literally a single path with no branches (except for the shortcuts), Pinky.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And after you've been a couple times you learn the shortcuts to the meat balls pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Oh man, I worked right by the new IKEA that got built and before long I could get through that thing in a minute flat

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a spiritual maze, Brain. Are you done looking at the curtain rings yet?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

*struggling to carry a huge armful of curtain rings*

...what a savings!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I assume that's how SCP-3008 was created

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, the one (and very likely only) time I went to IKEA, I bought almost nothing, because the whole store was just one big stampede, pressing through that singular path.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Never go on a weekend.

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