You might get lost every time you go to IKEA but from now on you're no longer allowed do it on purpose!
The megastore is putting a stop to the massive games of hide-and-seek that thousands of people were planning to attend at stores throughout the Netherlands.
“It’s hard to control,” IKEA Group spokeswoman Martina Smedberg told Bloomberg. “We need to make sure people are safe in our stores, and that’s hard to do if we don’t even know where they are.”
The Facebook-organized event at the Eindhoven branch planned for May 16, which more than 32,000 people had indicated they would attend, is now being shut down.
The idea of a hide-and-seek game in Ikea has been around for years. A fan page called “I would love to play hide and seek in Ikea!” from 2010 still has nearly 130,000 Facebook likes.