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[NickFitz]

Can you get us some blue bags. We've managed to loss all of ours and I need to get about 8....

If I have time. It's a guerrilla raid - I know exactly what I want, and have the Ikea app on my phone showing the location in the warehouse of each item on my list.

The tricky bit will be locating the well-hidden shortcut direct to the warehouse at the entrance but, assuming I find that, I'm expecting to be in and out within fifteen minutes. Well, make that nearer forty if the queues at the till are anything like usual

[eek]

If I have time. It's a guerrilla raid - I know exactly what I want, and have the Ikea app on my phone showing the location in the warehouse of each item on my list.

The tricky bit will be locating the well-hidden shortcut direct to the warehouse at the entrance but, assuming I find that, I'm expecting to be in and out within fifteen minutes. Well, make that nearer forty if the queues at the till are anything like usual

They will be by the tills if you can get them - will pay in chocolate or cash or probably both....

My usual approach if I just want the warehouse is to go in the exit you then only have to battle past one of the unopen tills to get in....

[NickFitz]

They will be by the tills if you can get them - will pay in chocolate or cash or probably both....

My usual approach if I just want the warehouse is to go in the exit you then only have to battle past one of the unopen tills to get in....

Last time I tried to get to the warehouse after trailing around the whole place, the signs I followed ended up leading me back to the start of the store. Funny thing was, I didn't realise at first that I'd already walked past all this stuff not fifteen minutes earlier - it was only when I noticed an oddly shaped lampshade or something along those lines that I worked out what had happened

[SueEllen]

[NickFitz]

Ikea done

Bringing everything in from the car has just about finished me off was splendid exercise, particularly as a fine drizzle had started just before I got home

And I was easily on target to manage in-and-shopped in ten minutes (followed by an age of queuing at the tills) but the very last item I wanted wasn't where my phone said it should be. It was out in one of the "aisle 0" display areas and there was a very large pile of the same thing, but in a different colour. I walked all around it and checked, and I tried every other pile thereabouts, and I quadruple checked I was in the right place, and I tried other sections, and I tried the self-help terminals which just said it was where it wasn't, and in the end I had to join the queue for the enquiry desk. Once I finally got there and explained that no, they only had ones of a different colour in that pile unless the ones of the required colour were hidden in the middle, the young lady checked and said there should be some in one of the normal aisles - 22:16, I think it was. And there were; plenty of them. If their storekeeping system had mentioned that in the first place, I would have been fine

Then, approaching the tills, I went and joined a queue. Nearby were some couple dithering over a wire basket display of seasonal gewgaws, and it turned out they were actually part of the queue rather than merely near it. This was pointed out to me, and I apologised and manoeuvred myself and my trolley behind where they should have been in the first place; but of course this now means I will spend the next thirty years dying of the Englishman's natural shame of having been suspected of queue-jumping

Other than all that, a successful trip

[NickFitz]

Goodnight all

[barrydidit]

Station bacon sarnie and a cup of tea

It's an old school greasy spoon, rather than a chain warming up pre-packed crap in a microwave too.

[eek]

Hello Preston for the last time.

[Scruff]

Last day on my bench. Back on the commute to Westminster from tomorrow...

[eek]

It's remarkable how comments I made in passing 2 weeks ago are now coming back as fact from people who argued that I was wrong 2 weeks ago.