Who doesn’t like behaving like a big kid?
So, the idea of a game of hide and seek in an IKEA store, where, let’s face it, it’s easy to get lost, appealed to thousands at the Swedish furniture giant’s store in Glasgow, Scotland.
Plans were announced on Facebook to turn the store at the Braehead shopping complex into an impromptu playground, but staff were made aware of the possibility of up to 3,000 youths descending on the store and called the police.
The trend for using IKEA’s giant warehouses for games began in Belgium in 2014 and spread rapidly around Europe, with IKEA bosses initially allowing the events, where people hide in fridges, under beds and in the firm’s big blue shopping bags.
In Holland an astonishing 32,000 Facebook users signed up for a game in Eindhoven, as well as 19,000 in Amsterdam and 12,000 in Utrecht.
Eventually IKEA was forced to impose a ban on the game because of ‘health and safety’ reasons.
I can’t think of anything worse given that I begin to panic the minute I walk into the store, not least because my husband ends up buying a tonne of stuff we don’t need!
