Big white Chiclets are the dental equivalent of the full Cleveland. Now I know what a Full Cleveland is.
And this is why I hate the interwebs
Because they seem too true. I was congratulating myself yesterday for going to the FUKUA website to check the dimensions on a little bit of Ivar that I fancy, when I noticed I could also check availability. Whoa Nellie! None in stock at the store I normally go to. Check other store, to which I have never been. Alright! 143 pieces in stock, today and for the next two days.1 It even tells me what shelf the thing is on.
We discussed this over morning cappucino, my friend and I. We agreed that this was both wonderful and trivial, a perfect use of the interwebs. Ikea opens up its system so that its customers can do the work of sales representatives, saving the company money — nobody having to answer phones to dumb questions about stocks — and making the customers feel smart and savvy into the bargain.
When I got there, they were out of stock. None expected, said the sales representative, whose time I shamelessly wasted.
Footnotes:- Presumably this is a slow moving item. [↩]
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The biggest culprit in this regard has to be Google Maps. I’ve lost count of the number of times they’ve sent me to stores that no longer exist at the listed location, or never did. Now I always check…
@Sam – But how do you check, when the stores have given up enabling you to do so, because “it’s all on the interrnet”?