IKEA seemed surprised people would want to shop on a rainy Sunday when they're having a sale

With so many Americans now working thanks to Trump, it's a blessing and a curse. Long lines of consumers with newfound purchasing power but not enough people needing a retail job to handle the cash registers. Glad that Trump has once again increased the seasonal H2B visa program to allow seasonal legal immigrants to handle the backlog. #MAGA

Considering it's a major holiday week-end that entails people going to vacation spots like the Cape rather than shopping for home furnishing, it makes sense that IKEA didn't schedule like it was a regular Sunday. I mean, how would you like it if you were forced to work on Memorial Day week-end knowing that unless, say, it's rainy, no one is going to show up.

Now were it Labor Day or even Columbus Day, sure, but this is not a holiday known for retail.

I think these people expect to go to hell when they die, and are getting used to it. Because this is what hell is really like; waiting in line at Ikea, forever. All those grotesque and colorful designer punishments you read about in the Inferno are just an anxious poet's desperate attempt to make the afterlife interesting. But hell isn't interesting, it's boring. God doesn't design the punishments, he contracts that out to Satan, and Satan is not imaginative. He's actually in the same line. People like to credit him with diabolical brilliance, all that Prince of Darkness shit, but he's actually a tedious simpleton. I mean, Donald Trump? I rest my case.

Those people are crazy.. waiting that long. I love Ikea, but not that much.

Besides didn't anyone think of that. Best time to go to Ikea on the weekends is right as they open. Like be there when they open the doors.

If you can't, Wednesday evening is the best day. Deadder than a door nail.

There is something badly wrong that we reward a business that treats us with such obvious contempt by waiting around for hours to hand them our money.

I needed a kitchen cart and my buddy needed a kids activity table, so we went to Ikea on a Saturday about a month or so ago. Same thing. No holiday or anything, just a mid-afternoon trip to the store.

We got lucky because one of our items was on the far side of the warehouse and there was a line open that bent towards our direction and nobody in the main area could see it so it was smaller and moved faster.

But when I realized I needed to go back to grab something briefly, I saw the main line feeding the other registers had extended back past the warehouse doors into the product area and there were no carts for anyone to get warehouse items anyways. It was insane.

It was insane that they weren't equipped to handle the number of people in the store and it was insane that these people were so hard up for their fiberboard products that they were going to wait in line that long just to check out. I mean add the cost of the furniture to the value of your time and you could probably afford to buy a nice hardwood whatever from a better store, keep it in the family for generations, and skip the insanity at Ikea.