I've noticed a lot of media outlets like to add a zero here and there when reporting.
A mix of 300 people could fill the IKEA parking lot. 3000 is an entire cruise ship.
You piqued my interest so I went to look it up. Average Ikea is 300k sf. So obviously omitting the fact that there are areas of the store that are off limits (although are you following those rules when you're playing hide and seek?), as well as there being furniture everywhere, that's 100 square feet per person, which I think is doable. Especially considering, if I'm playing hide and seek at IKEA, I'm hiding in the furniture.
So occupancy is, firstly, based off classification. An IKEA would presumably be M under the UCC (Uniform Construction Code). Capacity is determined using the amount of exits and distance to those exits. You can have a million square foot building, but if there's only one door, you're going to be limited to 50 peoples. That'll obviously never happen, but just an example.
Mercantile can range from as few as 30sf per person to as many as 300 sf per person. Assuming this Ikea is on ground level, has a bunch of doors, I think you can safely use 60sf per person (10x6 area), which would allow for about a bajillion people in a 300k square foot IKEA.
That load is kind of in the middle. There are uses that require greater separation distances, like hospitals and other institutional uses, and then some that require less. I threw out 100sf per person, because 10x10 is honestly a bunch of room for your average person. I think you could reasonably do some cartwheels in a 10x10, and to me the cartwheel is a great demonstration of personal space. If you can cartwheel, you're good to go. What more do you want?
Interesting, thanks. Much of it is warehouse space that isn't open to customers, though. Not sure what proportion the shopping floor would be - 2/3? Plus the products on the showfloors take up a great deal of room.
Might be decent exposure for the store though. It's pretty easy to see stuff at IKEA and be like yeah, I have been meaning to pick up a new wobbly stool. Better grab some weird candy too.
Which is an argument for management not to complain. The staff can still complain. Thousands of meme-y randos fucking up the store, deliberately getting underfoot at my job for a joke, and the proposed reward for that is maybe it will attract more people? To disregard the likelihood of another rendition of the same stunt, if it's well-received.
Gonna be blunt. My best days were the ones without customers in them, and I don't get paid more if there are.
A slightly fun fact is that apparently you can't buy multi-packaged furniture without picking every package up since the point of sale terminal will refuse to complete the purchase if you don't scan all the packages of a product. Pretty smart actually. I haven't tested this myself so it might be wrong.
Why aren't there paid services for hide and seek? Like a bunch if furniture, walls, shelves and what not and put it in a big warehouse. Have people pay to participate and play whatever games they want in there. You can have massive organized events and everything. Imagine massive game of manhunt in there with electronic devices to show who's it.
That actually sounds dope, especially if you have theme games where a professional seeker plays being a serial killer in a slasher flick or stuff like that
Seems like the police did the seeking, lol
It's in the rules as the final round.
They just wanted to play too
Imagine you're shopping and you pull out a towel from the rack and there is just a whole stoner back behind there chilling. /shudders
Hey, I found a stoner tucked away in the men's jeans in Wal-Mart, 50% off.
Decided to take him home, and it's been a great decision! He takes care of the couch, he's always down to play some Smash, he'll even let me win.
All it cost me was watching one Pauly Shore movie a week. Tomorrow's Encino Man!
"for as little as one Polly shore movie a week, you too can adopt a poor lost stoner" 😂
Charels Dixkens directs.
Don’t forget about “Phantom of the Mall”! One of Paulys early films!
I think I'd be more concerned if it was only part of a stoner.
Amputee stoner playing on hard mode, hiding in sets of drawers.
3000 is just counting the people they found.
The Langoliers. 8pm....
3000 people sounds a bit excessive.
I've noticed a lot of media outlets like to add a zero here and there when reporting.
A mix of 300 people could fill the IKEA parking lot. 3000 is an entire cruise ship.
You piqued my interest so I went to look it up. Average Ikea is 300k sf. So obviously omitting the fact that there are areas of the store that are off limits (although are you following those rules when you're playing hide and seek?), as well as there being furniture everywhere, that's 100 square feet per person, which I think is doable. Especially considering, if I'm playing hide and seek at IKEA, I'm hiding in the furniture.
”if I’m playing hide and seek at IKEA, I’m hiding in the furniture”
You just showed your best hand. I can’t protect you now.
That would be a 10x10 foot square for each person, that building would be pretty crowded once you take the shelves and merchandise into account.
Plus a lot of that is employee-only warehouse space.
I wonder what the fire department's max occupancy is?
So occupancy is, firstly, based off classification. An IKEA would presumably be M under the UCC (Uniform Construction Code). Capacity is determined using the amount of exits and distance to those exits. You can have a million square foot building, but if there's only one door, you're going to be limited to 50 peoples. That'll obviously never happen, but just an example.
Mercantile can range from as few as 30sf per person to as many as 300 sf per person. Assuming this Ikea is on ground level, has a bunch of doors, I think you can safely use 60sf per person (10x6 area), which would allow for about a bajillion people in a 300k square foot IKEA.
That load is kind of in the middle. There are uses that require greater separation distances, like hospitals and other institutional uses, and then some that require less. I threw out 100sf per person, because 10x10 is honestly a bunch of room for your average person. I think you could reasonably do some cartwheels in a 10x10, and to me the cartwheel is a great demonstration of personal space. If you can cartwheel, you're good to go. What more do you want?
Interesting, thanks. Much of it is warehouse space that isn't open to customers, though. Not sure what proportion the shopping floor would be - 2/3? Plus the products on the showfloors take up a great deal of room.
Probably not more than 150 or 200, but their building isn't important, right now.
Ha, yes. Okay, to be properly specific, the occupancy limit the fire department set for that Ikea building.
Why? Why would there be an upper limit?
To how many people can reasonably fit inside Ikea without being disruptive?
I mean, the police were called, so they were being disruptive.
I'm more confused if 3000 people could realistically even hide in an IKEA
Fair. But I'm not sure 3000 reaches that limit. Just sounded like you meant to playing hide and seek.
At least you have to know when you've found them all.
Small numbers for the Infinite IKEA Store
(edited for you link sleuths)
Please link the real wiki and not some shitty fandom repost, which isn't even complete
I mean it would be pretty bad for the staff and the customers who just want to buy shit
Might be decent exposure for the store though. It's pretty easy to see stuff at IKEA and be like yeah, I have been meaning to pick up a new wobbly stool. Better grab some weird candy too.
Which is an argument for management not to complain. The staff can still complain. Thousands of meme-y randos fucking up the store, deliberately getting underfoot at my job for a joke, and the proposed reward for that is maybe it will attract more people? To disregard the likelihood of another rendition of the same stunt, if it's well-received.
Gonna be blunt. My best days were the ones without customers in them, and I don't get paid more if there are.
Anyone who's worked retail knows this is truth. Although working a double when the mall was dead was pretty bad too
Actually just fuck retail jobs
Remember when flash mobs where a thing?
I think I still have scars from all the cringe
In los angeles they became flash looting mobs.
Nature is amazing
Sounds like they weren't hiding well enough.
This is the real takeaway
Ah, the before-times
They probably fucked up the place in process
If they were moving parts between shelves, there's a good chance someone bought an IKEA product that actually has everything included!
Lol.
A slightly fun fact is that apparently you can't buy multi-packaged furniture without picking every package up since the point of sale terminal will refuse to complete the purchase if you don't scan all the packages of a product. Pretty smart actually. I haven't tested this myself so it might be wrong.
Why aren't there paid services for hide and seek? Like a bunch if furniture, walls, shelves and what not and put it in a big warehouse. Have people pay to participate and play whatever games they want in there. You can have massive organized events and everything. Imagine massive game of manhunt in there with electronic devices to show who's it.
Basically just another idea that fits into existing game zones places.
That actually sounds dope, especially if you have theme games where a professional seeker plays being a serial killer in a slasher flick or stuff like that
I read that the wrong way around.
I've played hide and seek every single time I have been in an IKEA. We never got more than 20 people together though.
Now the question is were there any people in labcoats among the cops
How can 3,000 people possibly be hiding in there?
odds are you're going to see someone.
And how do you distinguish hide and seek participants with casual unwitting shoppers?
It was SCP-3008 Finally, they are free
Presumably casual shoppers aren't actively hiding themselves.
Wait we aren't? Guess I'm more of an amateur IKEA shopper then.
Unwitting shoppers are going to be doing some seeking, whether they mean to or not.
Open a closet, look under a bed - there's gonna be someone there.
All you need now is to lock the doors, turn off the lights, and tell everyone that the story is closing.
Get those white stretchy suits and pretend it's scp 3008
My exact thought
You can always tell who's never worked retail or service industry jobs.
Just have fun on the Internet by shitposting where nobody who knows you in real life would actually look.
Abolish the police!
Coming straightforth from Caimbridge! Mother fornicator!
Riot and fire hazard.
"Cops"
MTFs understand that it's part of the job. But they still hate being called cops.
COP = Criminals On Patrol
Sounds annoying af for ikea employees. Fun at others expense is not fun.
If I was employed at that IKEA I would be participating
Good to know?
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New York Post, @nypost
Cops shut down massive 3,000-person game of hide-and-seek at Ikea trib.al/bXJG1gr
[An image of the yellow IKEA logotype on a blue building.]