On 2016-10-27 12:48 PM, jmcquown wrote:

> Agreed. I'm definitely not driving 50-100 miles to buy anything.

I have made very few special trips to the Ikea closest to me, which is
about 45 miles from me. One of those was to return a computer chair that
broke, and I took advantage of the life time guarantee. The other was
when my son was moving out on his own and we bought dressers, desk,
bookshelves and a few other things and then moved them to his new place
400 miles away and all the unpacked stuff fit into my MPV and on the
roof rack. They now have a pickup centre in a nearby city where he
lives now and a couple weeks ago I went down to order some stuff he had
ordered.

All my other shopping ventures there have been when we we on our way
back from some place and were passing within a 1/4 mile of it. A couple
times we stopped there to grab a meal. The food is dirt cheap and quite
edible.