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Ben Gilbert: belief

18 Nov 2024 Acquired IKEA

“I’ve never eaten at IKEA just to eat lunch. I realized Ohio did not get an IKEA for a really long time.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
18 Nov 2024
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
IKEA

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…I have done that many times in my life, most recently in downtown San Francisco. I don’t have many of these stories and I was trying to figure out why. I was talking to my wife and she was talking about, oh my God, I loved getting the catalog growing up. Oh, I’ve furnished so many apartments in IKEA. I was thinking, actually until the last few years I haven’t really. I’ve never eaten at IKEA just to eat lunch. I realized Ohio did not get an IKEA for a really long time. I grew up without an IKEA near me. Even when I went to college in Columbus, they got one in Cincinnati. But it was was until after I left Columbus that they got one there. Until I got to Seattle, I don’t think I had ever experienced IKEA. And the Seattle IKEA is so great. Well I have a question for you then. What year did your family leave Delaware?…

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