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Kragar8/05/2013 3:29:20 pm PDT

re: #185 Vicious Babushka

I don’t understand how you can do that. IKEA is set up so that you have to march past EACH AND EVERY ITEM IN THEIR ENTIRE FREAKING INVENTORY.

Unless you’re buying some small household items in their “marketplace” section, but I’d just go to Target for that. I only ever go to IKEA for some large furniture item like a dresser or bookcase.

I remember a really old comedy routine where the guy broke down our shopping habits based on our early development as hunter/gatherers.

Men were hunters. They knew they wanted bison. They would go out and kill a bison and bring it back. Today, man knows he needs a shirt, so he goes out and brings back a shirt.

Women did the gathering. They would go out and spend the day looking around for the very best fruits and vegetables they could find, along with anything else which might be useful. Thus shopping was born.