The new IKEA store is my leading local news story tonight.

[flvegan]

:eyes:

It doesn't even open until May. Idiots.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. I LOVE IKEA

[Pierre.Suave]

2. Has the line to be the first ones in the store

started yet?

[Lost in CT]

3. Tampa is getting an Ikea? Why???

Well on a more serious note are not furniture stores dropping like flies around there as it is?

I don't see people buying a new living room in this economy.

[flvegan]

5. Kane's shuttered a long time ago, otherwise

no, not that I've noticed.

[KitchenWitch]

18. IKEA is more than just a furniture store.

It is an entire home living store. Yes they have furniture, but they also have household linens, kitchenware, cookware, cooking gadgets, lamps, etc.

Yes, I love IKEA.

[jobycom]

4. It's the "The Empire Strikes Back" of the retail furniture world.

People will camp out for a week before it opens.

Don't hold it against the store, though. They are pretty cool. They set high ecological standards, and are quick to respond when they screw up on them.

[LeftyMom]

6. They have really good deals on dog bowls and throw blankets.

Plus light bulbs, power strips and batteries and other household crap.

Speaking of batteries, where's my present?

[flvegan]

8. You say this like I'm ever going to go there.

The Clapper? It's on backorder.

[LeftyMom]

12. Seriously, those throw blankets you use for teh puppehz are like $3.

Which is worth doing even if the layout of the store and the bright Swedish Modern design might cause you to claw your own eyes out. Which is a real possibility.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. Man, you have a lot of battery operated devices, don't you?

[Lil Missy]

7. I know the daughter of IKEA President. She's here.

We've had words, over phone and email. What a headache. We made peace.

[CreekDog]

10. the thing about IKEA is that I love it, but then I go there

spend a whole bunch of time looking at things and end up not buying a thing because nothing there is of use to me.

[crimsonblue]

11. What's IKEA?

Is it kinda like Nebraska Furniture Mart? :shrug:

[blue_onyx]

13. Same thing happened here too

When Detroit got an IKEA, the local news talked about it endlessly. I don't get why it's such a big deal. I've been there a few times and I don't see why people were going crazy for the store.

[fujiyama]

34. ROFL!

I grew up in Canton and people were going crazy. The only bigger event I would imagine in that place is Jesus freaking returning.

[flvegan]

14. IKEA, people! Where's the outrage!!??

[LeftyMom]

16. It's on aisle 8-B, and you'll have to put it together yourself.

[GOPisEvil]

17. With an allen wrench.

x(

[Rhythm]

20. that wasn't included... sold separately

:hide:

[conscious evolution]

29. Not just sold seperately

Its gotta be some wierd size that doesn't come in standard hex sets. Something like a 7/75" or a 2.3mm.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

30. And the instructions are very efficient

They don't use words, just bad drawings.

[conscious evolution]

32. At least they aren't in engrish

As many countrys they are in can you imagine engrish in thirty languages?

[flvegan]

21. Alan? Who's Alan?

I swear to the heavens, I'm close to torches and pitchforks right now.

[GOPisEvil]

22. I've got a mob all ready to go.

[flvegan]

24. I'm going to charter a bus.

Maybe get a group rate. Is anyone an AARP member?

[GOPisEvil]

26. I think the green one in back belongs to AAA.

[flvegan]

27. Shatner, get me priceline.com!

[LeftyMom]

23. OC's middle name.

Poor guy, as if his lame surfer dude first name weren't bad enough, he gets his middle name from a tool that gets lost in the bottom of the toolbox detritus.

[flvegan]

25. I'm going to try to forget some of what you said.

[LeftyMom]

28. Thankfully your age is on your side in that one.

;)

[GOPisEvil]

15. The local IKEA was big news when they opened in Austin, too.

Damn thing isn't even in Austin. It's in Crypto-fascist-ville.

The one here is in Tukwila. I like saying Tukwila. :)

[csziggy]

19. IKEA has its own fan group with a website - IKEAfans.com.

Great group of people totally obsessed with IKEA kitchens. I am one of them - my kitchen is built of IKEA cabinets. Cheap, well made and they did not out gas formaldehyde.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

31. I did not know they were so rare until I read it on DU.

Seriously.

I did not know there were only 24 stores in the whole U.S.

I used to live about 2 miles from the one in Houston.

[Jamastiene]

33. I don't know how you can contain yourself with all that much excitement.

:P

[fujiyama]

35. It's nice to have an IKEA nearby

The furniture is relatively decent and cheap and the resale value isn't all that bad either. I just had to get rid of some stuff I got from IKEA since I'm moving.

But isn't it all basically a bunch of Chinese made junk? I'd be interested in knowing more about the ecological, environmental, and labor standards of the company...

Either way, I wish there was stuff made here...It's harder and harder to find.

[kedrys]

36. We're headed there today - the one in Montreal, of course.

The s.o. has decided to replace the perfectly good overhead lamp in the dining area, and since I'm not allowed to turn on the one we have, I caved. :P