Ikea Winnipeg | Completed
From Tuesday's Winnipeg Sun:
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The only thing that makes me roll my eyes more than "will NHL hockey come back to Winnipeg" discussions, is "will IKEA come to Winnipeg" discussions.
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If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it doesn't. C'est la vie. |
Judging by what happened to the last soul who posted a thread about Ikea, I would say some people are starting to tread on thin ice....
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well, it was in the paper -- that's the only reason why I posted it.
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I don't understand the part about needing a million population. Edmonton had an IKEA long before it hit a million in population.
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bahaha not this stupid talk again last year we deceded ikea was noting but crap
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It's always surprised me that Winnipeg didn't have an IKEA. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Winnipeg is the perfect market for their product (as evidenced by the huge catalog sales they do). As 1ajs says, though, much of their merchandise isn't exactly "quality", so it all depends on what you're looking for in furniture. It's a neat store to shop in, but 99% of their stuff is, shall we say, "garbage". To emphasize this, I do a lot of garage sailing in the summer, and since moving to Calgary, I've seen a HUGE amount of IKEA stuff at garage sales. People don't tend to hang on to this stuff for very long - read into that what you will. |
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Also the original IKEA in Edmonton was in the WEM and one could justify that there would be quite a bit of tourism business going to that location just because of the mall. The new IKEA in Edmonton wasnt built until Edmonton (and surrounding areas) hit one million people. |
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^and dont forget they moved to whitemud and gateway blvd mid 90's when we were far under 1mil also....but economics have changed yall.
oh and ikea builds 300,000sqft stores now, not 200. |
^Unless someone can find the "magic 1 million" number on their website - it is complete bogus. In fact, technically both Edm and Cgy new ikeas were built before officially hitting that number.
Regardless, as I pointed out on one of the other many Ikea coming to Winnipeg threads, there have been several built in the last year in Scandinavia and Russia with similar or smaller pops than the Peg. http://www.ikea-group.ikea.com/corpo...up_stores.html Someone in the Peg should write the Sun back - and call this guy on shoddy journalism. First, he gets in touch with a company spokesman, but then gets that stupid 1 million figure from a retail professor at the U of M? And that dude misses the size of the stores by about 125,000 sq ft??? EDIT: I looked this up before...so I did more research than the guy that wrote the article - send this to him to follow-up: "As well, Ikea has opened recently (2005/2006) in less populated places than Winnipeg: Amersfoort - 134k. Kalmar - 230k (in county) Haparanda (Norrbotten Country - 258k) - the "northernmost" Ikea (65.50 N opened Nov, 2006)" NOW stop creating new threads on Winnipeg and IKEA ;) |
I think the magic one million is bullshit too.. urban legend that won't die.
I think the reason that we don't already have one has a lot to do with Palliser (NEFCO) being based here, and their stranglehold on the local furniture market. ie. EQ3, Penthouse, Palliser, Thomasville, etc. etc. all owned by the same company. But perhaps that doesn't matter anymore.. and as much as I hate Shady Swindleman, he would know. |
Never mind Winnipeg; what about Halifax? For hypothetical purposes, let's just say that this rumor is true. The metro Halifax region is around what, 300,000 people? The entire population of Nova Scotia is just under a million people. If the million magic mark is so prevelant in IKEA's requirments, how does Halifax fit into this?
There seems to be some fibbing on someone's part, either on IKEA's part or from someone else. Either way, I 100% agree with Kirk; the media feeds on this kind of opportunity, and we keep buying into it. |
I wonder if they figure a Halifax store would serve all of Atlantic Canada... otherwise I don't see the logic in that either.
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That is so funny. I had no idea Winnipeg didn't have an Ikea.
As far as the million mark, Edmonton and Calgary had theirs built years ago when they were around half a million. Plus the fact that they are considering Halifax, which is well under a million makes me think the million people mark is something made up. Why is it Winnipeg never had one? Calgary got an Ikea 25 years ago?? |
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