Most of our trips to Ikea involve picking up flatpak products we've already looked at online. The nice thing about Ikea is that once you've already bought stuff

Most of our trips to Ikea involve picking up flatpak products we've already looked at online. The nice thing about Ikea is that once you've already bought stuff from there, you kind of know what to expect when it comes to quality and construction. They offer the full dimensions of their stuff online so you can get a feel for the size of something large. There's little need to go check out a table in the showroom before you pickup the box from the warehouse. We simply cut through the checkout lines, grab a cart at the back of the warehouse, grab our stuff, and are gone without having to navigate the maze. You get suckered into walking the store when you just want to grab a couple small things like from the kitchen section and now feel compelled to just walk the rest of the way out. One thing I do really like about them is their spare parts desk. You can get just about any piece of hardware for free. I had a bracket for my bedframe break that was several years old. They still sell the bedframe but I was unsure if they would help. They gave me a new bracket that was actually better designed to prevent how it broke for me. Same thing happened with a desk leg mounting plate. They had did not thread the hole for the leg to screw on so it was entirely unusable. They simply just gave me a new plate. No questions asked, no warranty periods, just make the customer happy so they come back and buy more stuff. A lot of our stuff comes from Ikea so I'm happy with my purchases. As long as you aren't too rough on it or try to disassemble it, it will last.