I know people are strange, but...

[rsc]

In an article about the soon-to-open IKEA in Stoughton, MA, in today's Boston Globe, it is mentioned in passing that "customers" are already camped out in the parking lot, although the store doesn't open until next Wednesday. (I think I heard something about that on TV while surfing through a news channel, as well.)

Why on earth would anyone do that? Do they think IKEA is going to run out of furniture in the first six hours? What?

Comments

[fj.livejournal.com]

I heard on the radio the first one gets $5K of furniture.

[jwg.livejournal.com]

So why would more than 1 person or 2 in case the firxt one dies be there?

[fj.livejournal.com]

They're hoping for birdflu to take the others out?

[arfur]

$2K and $1K, if I remember correctly from the Globe free advertising piece informational article. Then a bunch more folks get free tshirts or something.

[bitty.livejournal.com]

Damn. I could totally use $5K worth of furniture.

[slinkr.livejournal.com]

From IKEA? Did you buy a 4-bedroom house recently?

[bitty.livejournal.com]

I have no problem taking a free dining room set and putting it in storage for a few years.

And I could really use some new rugs and window treatments and 2 beds and seating for the living room.

I could find room :)

[urso.livejournal.com]

The first thing to understand that Ikea is not a store, but a church.

[chrishansenhome.livejournal.com]

There was a store opening here in Edmonton, North London, a while back. There was so much pandemonium and 5 people were injured and taken to hospital. The store closed 30 minutes later and didn't reopen for a few days. The news story is here:

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/bs/2005/bs051103.gif

Read and heed, citizens of Stoughton!

[madknits.livejournal.com]

I think they give gift certifs out to the first XX number of people who come in.

I guess IKEA is OK, and I'll probably shop there. I mean, I need to keep my house furnished in early graduate student.