Complaint Review: IKEA HICKSVILLE - Hicksville New York

And that is why I didn't expect too much when I went to Ikea for my first taste of European style shopping. I took the catalog and made a battle plan and furnished my entire apartment for $500. It had an in-house cafe and I got to drink Loganberry juice and eat Swedish pancakes with loganberry syrup. They were very good. Logan berry tastes like a slightly sweet Cherry Kool-Aid. I didn't pay much attention to the help. All I know is that there are several hundred people on the waiting list to work there so people must be happy there. Maybe happier than at Wal-Mart although I think IKEA and Wal-mart carry about the same quality of merchandise that you have to assemble ---OVERALL. Retail is retail and to me it would be Retail hell to have to work the floor of either place. I should also mention that the IKEA I went to was in Round Rock, Texas. I heard that it was a yuppie store so I had a legal length pocket knife and a baseball bat in my car in case the yuppies attacked me... Nobody did and the people I saw in there were just ordinary folks shopping for their college student kids dorm rooms and apartments and young couples and no YUPPIES at all! MY KIND OF PLACE. I had an unfortunate shouting incident with some twenty somethings on the parking lot when I left because they objected to Latinos shopping there but they decided that maybe I could play baseball and knew what to do with my bat so they left. Maybe your Ikeas are run differently from our here in Round Rock,Texas. I wish I could see which stores made the most money--ours or yours. I can say I would rather eat in their in-house cafeteria than the barf-inducing Clown burgers that the Wal-marts feature.... I was pleasantly surprised by IKEA but because they are inconveniently located so far from where I live and they are not on a bus route -- by design or accident, I have NO idea, I probably will never go back. With all of their tricked out designer emphasis, they get to be a one-trick pony after a while. I can't say I was ripped off there. I CAN say that it was a pretty neat experience to see how Swedish stores operate. Better wear your walking shoes because you WILL get your exercise busting flats of furniture and just getting from point a to point b. On a scale of 1 - 10,I WOULD RATE MY FIRST AND ONLY IKEA VISIT A RESPECTABLE 8. YUPPIE FREE SHOPPING MAKES IT A GREAT EXPERIENCE FOR ME!

So after making people jump through hoops for interviews to work for the company, this is the standard email (yes EMAIL) they send out to people who don't meet thier specific 'idea' of an Ikea worker (at my local one, Conshohoken PA if you're not black, and arrogant you don't qualify) XXX XXXXXX, Many thanks for your commitment and the enjoyable meeting. It was difficult for us to reach a decision. We have to make many decisions each day including those, which are neither easy nor pleasant: telling you today that your application was unsuccessful is one of them. We are convinced that your personality and abilities will lead you to a good career. Even if on this occasion we do not have the position, which is just right for you, we most certainly have the right furnishings. And who knows, at some point there may be other opportunities at IKEA. Kind regards IKEA A/S They're willing to push thier product, because while the person isn't good enough for Ikea, thier furnishings are, so don't forget to buy them. This, on top of a horrible expieriance I had last summer is why I no longer work for, nor visit Ikea. (Short version of what happened last summer... purchased a bed for my kid, it took four trips because no one was competent enough to make sure I had every single piece needed, and while they kept trying to get me to buy more stuff, they failed to write down the complete sets. So after the fourth trip back, and by this point I was pissed, they gave me nothing but 10 cents a mile for my time for the fourth and final trip... so when I went back the next day to return the bed, and a few other pieces for the room, they balked because I got a whopping four dollars as a millage 'reimbursement')

IKEA ripped me off and you Steven and I will definately help in any way I can to set up a consumer forum website to tell the AMerican public what bad customer service that giant rip off of a company has.

IKEA ripped me off and you Steven and I will definately help in any way I can to set up a consumer forum website to tell the AMerican public what bad customer service that giant rip off of a company has.

IKEA ripped me off and you Steven and I will definately help in any way I can to set up a consumer forum website to tell the AMerican public what bad customer service that giant rip off of a company has.

IKEA ripped me off and you Steven and I will definately help in any way I can to set up a consumer forum website to tell the AMerican public what bad customer service that giant rip off of a company has.