Ikea is great for these things: cheap food, low priced furniture, doo dads, tea lights, lamps, most things under $100.
Ikea is bad for these things: any substantial furniture purchase you intend to hold onto for many years.
I’ve bought a fair deal of Ikea stuff, and my parents have as well. I can count on my hands the number of pieces we still have. It’s simply low quality merchandise. I bought a couch/bed (not a hideabed, but a bed that bent [mountain fold] one-third of the way to become a couch). We kept it in bed mode for most of the time, only putting it into couch mode rarely. But it still broke well within the year we bought it, first the couching mechanism, then the supporting slats started breaking. After I threw it out, I resolved to never purchase anything over $100 from that store. And that was a great decision for me. I bought a few lamps from them, 2 $20 ones and one $40 one, and those are not only gorgeous but very sturdy.
I love going there to look at the stuff. But I’ll never buy a large furniture piece from them again.