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They have recently began a large wave of expansion [1] in the US. Raleigh (Cary) is getting one soon. So is Norfolk, Nashville, Jacksonville, Columbus OH, Milwa
by niftich 9y ago
They have recently began a large wave of expansion [1] in the US. Raleigh (Cary) is getting one soon. So is Norfolk, Nashville, Jacksonville, Columbus OH, Milwaukee; they're also beginning to build second (or additional) locations in large metros like Chicago, DFW, Phoenix.
[1] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/about_ikea/newsroom/expansion_plans http://www.ikea.com/us/en/about_ikea/newsroom/expansion_plan...
- ghaff 9y agoThey were trying to add a second store in the Boston area for a long time but they finally gave up on trying to get one into Somerville. (There was a lot of local opposition--mostly because of traffic concerns as I recall.) AFAIK, there's no current plan to add another store. The existing one is a fair ways south of the city.
- emodendroket 9y agoI don't see how they could build something anywhere near as large as that store in Somerville anyway.
- ghaff 9y agoThe Assembly Square project. But I think the traffic concerns were probably legit. G
- jtuente 9y agoThe one is Columbus is already open.
- dmix 9y agoI hope they try more innovative stuff in their new stores. Such as making self-checkout the primary means instead of the alternative. The long lines are often a problem and a single row of the checkout machines has 4-6 machines vs 1 or 2 people run counters. So it would speed things up They could even extend it to offer more services like ordering delivery and install services. It also makes a lot of sense in their current system.
- sethj 9y agoUgh, the new, remodeled, Ikea in Seattle got rid of the self checkouts. Checking out now takes at least 15 minutes. Sometimes more. It's awful.
- dmix 9y agoAny idea why? I've never seen a store add them and then remove them.
- kuschku 9y agoActually, lots of stores are removing self-checkouts nowadays. They tend to be a lot slower than cashiers, lead to more theft, and few people like to use them anyway.
- CamperBob2 9y agoOne of those frustrating problems that's already solved, but in pieces too widely scattered to do anyone any good.
- kuschku 9y agoWell, automated checkout with RFID tags is nowadays a viable solution, and first stores are deploying it.
- rsynnott 9y agoHuh, that's surprising. Two of the three supermarkets near me have phased out cashiers almost entirely.
- dmix 9y agoSame, my local grocery store added more machines after an initial phase and there are disproportionately bigger lineups to use them than the cashiers. Not to mentioned Ontario, where I'm from, just passed new minimum wage laws ($15CAD/hr) and a bunch of retailers are responding by investing in self checkout for the first time.
- henrikschroder 9y agoStill no Hawaii location... They could double or triple their prices, and they'd still be much cheaper than the competition. :-(
- selectodude 9y agoChicago has had two locations for like a decade now.