If you have no sympathy for my weakness for cheap, well-designed, mass-manufactured home furnishings, you may want to just skip this post…
Anyway, I was just thinking that there are so many IKEA products that are only available in the stores, I’ll bet someone could make a tidy sum as a runner. You would get folks’ shopping lists, buy the stuff in the store and deliver it to folks who live hours away. I think I would pay for this, but not very much.
Maybe I will post this on washingtondc.craigslist.org and see if anyone bites. If not, I may have to go into business myself. One weekend a month road tripping to NoVA/DC. I could handle that.
my wife and i were lamenting the fact that so much is only available in stores just yesterday. there surely is a market for this.
Not sure if I’m serious about this, but: http://raleigh.craigslist.org/lbs/60717163.html
I was just at IKEA Sunday. Sorry I didn’t think to ask. And Erin’s headed back up there in a few weeks, with a van to fill.
Don’t worry, Anton. I was actually just there last Saturday! Then I got home and realized I needed a bunch of little things that they don’t sell online. (Hence this post.) But I’ll be in DC again in a few weeks.
This is not a silly idea! It seemed, for a while, as if db and I were constantly up in DC at IKEA. We could’ve done this! More importantly, we have a little round-robin trade-off thing going with friends for Trader Joe’s. Whomever is in the vicinity next picks up what everybody needs. Damn, I miss Trader Joe’s.
But if you need a lot of things they don’t sell online, how will I know what I need?
Sally, they list tons of stuff on their website, they just won’t sell it to you there. It’s a very cruel joke, actually. Plus the print catalog is very thorough, although sometime hard to get a hold of.