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| - The labyrinth came to Phoenix. Ikea has very good location planning. They put their only store in Arizona in the largest city, but on the southern part of the largest city, making it accessible to the Tucson inhabitants.
Ikea's are wonderful places to get inexpensive furniture. Or just to kill a couple hours. Their giant store is two levels. Most of the furniture you have to assemble at home and once you do, you can't move it because it'll break, but it's great regardless and this self assembly keeps prices low. Some things also require you to finish the wood yourself.
If everyone shopping at Ikea the way I do, Ikea would be out of business for sure. I love to walk around the upstairs showroom and gawk at the Ikea living rooms and bathrooms, but I would never buy Ikea furniture with an intended long term use. I always pick up things at the marketplace, which is a dedicated area on the lower floor for smaller items, like ice trays, pots for plants, photo frames, clocks, pillows, small kitchen items (like ice cream scoops and cheese graters), etc. Wonderful little items for cheap.
There are no non-self-checkouts. You must be savvy to pay for things here. It can be tricky, the tags on some items are tiny and hard to scan.
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