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| - a recent trip to bfe pa for a friend's family wedding occupied my entire holiday weekend.
this was saddening.
until i received my reward:
ikea.
i hadn't been to this location in years. i was used to the ikeas in the nyc metro area or sf bay area, so it was surreal to even be *in* an ikea, let alone in the midwest.
my first immediate thought:
"wow. it's a holiday weekend. this place is gonna be packed."
but "packed" in the middle of the midwest as opposed to nyc "packed are two totally different things.
we went on sunday night a few hours before close, and i have to say, despite the large amount of cars in the parking lot, the place was barely full at all.
i have a horror story of shopping at the ikea in paramus in its full capacity. i reached to grab one of the last pillows that matched the set i was buying when another woman reached a few seconds after me. she yanked it out of my hands and said "bitch, give me my damn pillow".
kid you not. she receives some sort of dbag award in my book, but the point of me telling you this story is this:
there wasn't even a remote possiblity of this type of experience happening at ikea pittsburgh.
it's huge, it's ikea, there's a bunch of crap you don't need but HAVE to buy.
and it's not crowded. even on labor day weekend.
bonus? at the end of the day, cinnamon rolls and hot dogs are half off. i mean, they're only a buck to begin with. c'mon, man. that's AMAZING.
but they were out of catalogs. my friend that i went with said this location never has them.
if that's the only downfall to shopping at ikea in the midwest, i can handle that.
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