Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
18 Nov 2024 Acquired IKEA
“I think that where the original IKEA was is now the parking lot and they’ve shifted and built this new shiny building next to it.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 18 Nov 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- IKEA
Transcript context
…Was it in the same location that the current one is down in Renton? I think that where the original IKEA was is now the parking lot and they’ve shifted and built this new shiny building next to it. Man, I spent so much time in that store when I first moved to Seattle to work for Madrona. I was moving across country as a young person on my fourth and fifth apartment since graduating from school three years earlier. Man, I was so squarely in the sweet spot for IKEA at that moment in my life. It was almost a weekly pilgrimage that I did to that IKEA store. I used to love going to the as-is section. I would always start there at the end and be like, okay, what can I get a deal on here?…
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