Anybody in line @ikea?

[CrufflerSteve]

You have to admit this is great marketing. When I drove by there were 100's of people milling around. It's a store but they're making it seem like a religious event.

Steve

[nynco]

Don't forget to get yourself a meat ball

I won't go near that place for a few months. Even then I would just window shop. But still buy a meat ball or two

[flan7211]

I stand quite corrected on the foreign manufacturing. From what I understood and am open for more correction, Jabs in front of a Legislative House committee last year confirmed they pay no corporate taxes due to their non-profit status and a trade agreement we have with the EU. I find that to be BS and if true is enough of a reason I wouldn't shop there. Also my pretentious sis-in-law doesn't help.

[TFOGGER]

Ikea: Meh... either their business model will succeed, or it will fail. Not really bothered either way. It would annoy me if the traffic around there interfered with my travels, though.

[Byte Stryke]

No just no, but FAWK NO! Been driving past there the last couple days and laughing at the losers camped out. Camping out for the opening of a furniture store? Dumbasses. Just went by there and there was a HUGE herd of idiots waiting for FREE FURNITURE. For pre-fabricated furniture in boxes that you have to assemble yourself? Bah.

Fixed.

Yes, the first whatever # get free furniture (livingroom sofas, etc)
the number is in the hundreds

So yeah, I guess if you were part of the estimated 14% of the states actual unemployed and were furniture poor or going to resell it and feed the kids, its a good idea.
Look at it this way, you could even resell the tent you slept in!

[rondog]

Not saying I won't go there, or saying I won't buy anything there. But there's NFW I'm going to camp out waiting for any damn store to open. I camped out in OKC in sub-freezing temps in the winter of 1977 to buy Led Zeppelin tickets, that was enough for me.

[ruthabagah]

Got in in 30 min, got a 50$ gift card, got my chair, and will order my new kitchen here.

[nynco]

They giving out 50 dollar gift cards all day?

[Ronin13]

Just FYI, only one thing has been printed in more copies than the bible: The IKEA Catalog.
Who works at IKEA? Coloradans. I happen to like IKEA's products, I've only owned one- an entertainment center, but that's because it had to be shipped from a store in CA. I'd shop at the CO IKEA, they have great prices on some cool stuff and the money (partially) goes to the people that work there. I'm helping our local economy. Who cares where the stuff is made, I can't talk on that "Buy American" thing because my car was imported from Germany, my motorcycle from Japan, and probably 60% of all the stuff in my house was manufactured outside this country. The whole buy American thing is BS. Yes I love and support my country, but the food I eat comes from CO, the money I spend on most of the services and products I buy goes back to workers here in CO, and all this talk of "you're not a real American if you don't buy American" is just hogwash.

[ruthabagah]

They give random coupons in small bags. I got a card, my buddy got a free lunch, a lady in front of us got a free table.