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Why do you think we don't have one?
I'm not a huge fan, but I feel like the demographics around here are screaming for one.
They'll build one eventually. Even a mini-IKEA. There's a mini in Cincinnati, and it's seriously just as good as the big ones I've been to in Chicago and Houston. Better, actually.
They have a lot of great things in there other than furniture ! Housewares, home decorating items, etc. ( not to mention their cafeteria ) 3 hrs. Is way too far, they need one closer to the Triangle !
I'm surprised the area has been passed over for an IKEA simply due to the population density of college students. I thought that their target audiences were college students/young people/families just starting out?
[Since the thread on Wegman's is getting so much attention, I figured I'd resurrect this thread on another hot-button retail topic.]
Maybe we can snag a mini-IKEA like this:
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The world's largest furniture maker will open its smallest retail location in Canada in London, Ont., later this year, it was announced Wednesday morning.
The 20,000-square-foot pick-up centre will feature a limited number of items for purchase and immediate takeaway and 10 tablets on site for customers to browse and buy on Welcome to IKEA.com - IKEA. It will offer services including merchandise pick-up, home delivery, assembly, planning, returns and exchanges and online sales support, according to a company release.
A regular Ikea location is about 260,000 to 340,000 square feet.
I'd rather wait for a real IKEA instead of settling for a mini store like this one.
Unless the Triangle is recognized for the size it really is (instead of being seen as two metros) it will not have an IKEA in its near future. The Triangle is sitting near 2.1 million people at the moment and will nearing 2.3 million by the end of the decade. However, just the CSA alone won't justify an IKEA. Charlotte has the advantage of being flanked to its north by the Triad & Hickory, Asheville to the west and the Upstate SC area to its southwest to draw customers. A Triangle store would have to pull new customers that aren't already served and those would be coming from Eastern NC. The Fayetteville area is well over a half million now and Rocky Mount adds 300,000+ to the mix. Combine this with the market in Wilmington two hours east and maybe you have a large enough market for justification.
That all said, the Triangle is much better positioned to eventually receive an IKEA than if one had been placed in the Triad. If that had been done, I'd take it as a signal that IKEA only intended to have one store in the state. Because they didn't do that, I'd have to assume that an IKEA will be in the Triangle's future for it and Eastern NC.
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