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They have discreet shortcuts for if you do know where you're going. It's very cleverly designed so that the "natural" path through the store takes you on the grand tour, but you can get straight to specific places if you need to.

In my IKEA (in Edinburgh), there's a shortcut from the front entrance meaning that to get to the warehouse, you only need to go through Cooking & Eating, Home Decoration and Home Organisation to get to the warehouse, skipping almost the entirety of the store. You may want to check your local store's map on the IKEA website.

And this is why we shop ikea backwards... walk in the warehouse door, pick up a coffee, find the thing in the catalogue, and skip the showroom altogether.

Unless you're doing it because you enjoy the coffee, you can just find the right thing on the website, reserve it, walk in and pick it up. They do support that kind of workflow if that's what you want.

You can still do that. Follow the shortcuts on the map.