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Sorta. At Ikea (at least near me), you have to go find the items on the warehouse shelf yourself, and bring them to the registers still. At Best (and Service M
by function_seven 8y ago
Sorta. At Ikea (at least near me), you have to go find the items on the warehouse shelf yourself, and bring them to the registers still.
At Best (and Service Merchandise) you collected tickets for the items you wanted and brought those up to the front. They'd enter your order, you'd pay and wait. The items would be picked and sent on a conveyor to the front.
- ginko 8y agoBetter than Ikea, then.
- rwmj 8y agoSo like Argos?
- nimchimpsky 8y agoThe laminate book of dreams
- LiquidFlux 8y agoDo Argos' have showrooms or open floors? My experience, 10 years back, was limited to a looking through a catalogue, punching in a barcode into their stock checking device, and waiting for our number to appear on the screen in the waiting area after having paid.
- rwmj 8y agoVery small and incomplete ones. It does sound like the Best store was slightly different in its model, more like an Ikea/Argos cross.
- nervousvarun 8y agoProbably the most successful example of this approach was Service Merchandise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Merchandise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Merchandise).
- dver 8y agoNever heard of them, but reading the link, yes same idea.