Before you ever head out to a store, you should check a few things:

1-the actual time the store opens.  If there's one thing you don't want to do, it's arrive long before the store is actually open.

2-if there are any one-day-only while-supplies-last sales going on that day.  because, if there are, you might have to wait in line just to get into the store, then you'll need to wait in an incredibly long line just to walk through the store, then another line to check out. 

Because that's why what was supposed to be a fun little trip to IKEA this morning took about two hours longer than it should have.  But we made sure to get our free breakfast (yet another long line), so at least we feel like we got repaid a little for the headaches.  Or: headache for Walt, backache for me.  We probably would have browsed more and bought more things if we wouldn't have felt like we were skipping out of line to do that.