Ikea grand opening. I can't imagine being this pumped about literally any store.
I know where our Huntsville posters were yesterday...
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I want to go there just for the Swedish meatballs
Ikea makes great furniture for a person's first apartment.
Mrs. Peeper and I were in Memphis at New Years and she wanted to go. I sat in the car and listened to a couple podcasts. Why would anyone want to go look at furniture that you have to go home and put together yourself?
I see a Red Wing shoe store in that picture above, I would definitely go hang out in there instead of looking at furniture.
PS: I hear the Memphis IKEA is closing in May
I see a Red Wing shoe store in that picture above, I would definitely go hang out in there instead of looking at furniture.
PS: I hear the Memphis IKEA is closing in May
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It is. And if you are into pro equestrian competitions, you may have even lost a bet but gained a meal.
I never liked Red Wing boots. You couldn’t wear a pair out but they never had enough arch support for me. Rocky and Wolverine fit my foot better.
Look at all those people lining up with their spouse to have a fight while assembling cheap furniture.
There is nothing in this world that makes me use four letter words the way putting a piece of furniture together does. Not even stepping on a Lego or watching Mississippi State football....Not long after my wife and I got married, she got me a computer desk for the home office. Through that assembly, I wove a tapestry of obscentiy that, as far as I know, is still hanging in space over the Gulf of Mexico.
Occasionally, I'll get something that I'm actually impressed with the engineering and ease of use.
Yes, it is closing in May. It is their worst store in sales in all of the franchise.
I believe all couples should have to assemble Ikea furniture as opposed to pre-marital counseling. If you can put together a dresser, desk or bed from there without snapping on each other, you are ready to be together for life.
I drove by yesterday getting lunch in that same shopping area and it was a madhouse. ~6 HSV cops patrolling the parking lot.
I normally just let Miskelly assemble it when they deliver it. I figure those guys should know how to better than me, plus there's usually two of them. Did assemble a TV stand with shelves when I upgraded from 37" to 47". Wasn't too bad. Enough of a challenge to be a challenge but not enough to be frustrating. Only thing was I had to go buy some wood glue at Hobby Lobby because they supplied about half of what I needed.
As someone who manufactured furniture for 35 years I’ll let you in on a little secret. When we had the option of making something simple and intuitive or make something that would make a preacher cuss, I for one always imagined an Ole Miss grad unboxing it. It was one of the small pleasures in life.
I have only been to two Ikea's in my life. The one in Atlanta is kind of fun and it's clean and nice.
The one in Memphis is the most ratchet store I have been in that didn't have the word Dollar in the name.
Costco. Way back when they opened the first one in Alabama I was down on my luck. A temp agency gave me a one day gig at the grand opening of that store. They brought us in to sample food by the busloads that first day. I must have given out forty pounds of ham that day. It was a madhouse.
I sold to large Furniture mfgs for decades .
IKEA is crap Furniture. Like comparing mobile homes to well built houses.
They also have a business design, where they will go into a successful Furniture manufacturing company. They will offer them all kinds of business and pay a pretty decent price starting off. Once they get in entrenched in your company, they begin to start telling you what to do. They have the leverage there because they are a high percentage customer of yours after a few months
IKEA is crap Furniture. Like comparing mobile homes to well built houses.
They also have a business design, where they will go into a successful Furniture manufacturing company. They will offer them all kinds of business and pay a pretty decent price starting off. Once they get in entrenched in your company, they begin to start telling you what to do. They have the leverage there because they are a high percentage customer of yours after a few months
Wife and I couldn't find the right piece we wanted to use as a pantry in our tiny Lake House we are moving to in retirement. I decided it needed to be custom built by a cabinet maker but could never get anyone out there for the project. Decent cabinet makers are hard to get sometimes.
We ended up buying a couple Billy Book Cases from IKEA online. I have never been to the store and probably won't. We put both of them together in about and hour with a couple beers. I was concerned about hanging the doors but it went together so very easy as everything just fit perfectly and was easy to adjust. I figured $350 for both sections, if we don't like, we can toss them out and try again but we love them and we are keeping them.
But Wayfair crap? I got a queen bed and night stands in the guest house loft area for a 2nd BR but that stuff is not only cheap but a pain to assemble. I hate that stuff, still up there but only because it's rarely used. Most guests only used the downstairs for anything but maybe sleeping.
We ended up buying a couple Billy Book Cases from IKEA online. I have never been to the store and probably won't. We put both of them together in about and hour with a couple beers. I was concerned about hanging the doors but it went together so very easy as everything just fit perfectly and was easy to adjust. I figured $350 for both sections, if we don't like, we can toss them out and try again but we love them and we are keeping them.
But Wayfair crap? I got a queen bed and night stands in the guest house loft area for a 2nd BR but that stuff is not only cheap but a pain to assemble. I hate that stuff, still up there but only because it's rarely used. Most guests only used the downstairs for anything but maybe sleeping.
My company was approached about being a supplier for them years ago. We didn't go very far with it, what you're saying sounds exactly like where it was headed.
I don't hate Ikea. It's not forever furniture, but it's definitely better than Target and Walmart.
They actually come in your plant to inspect the furniture you’re making for them
Their rejection process is huge, and you end up with a lot of unsold inventory
Worst store ever!
If I never go back in one that’s fine with me.
It's an old Winn Dixie building before that company went defunct. I read somewhere that IKEA is going to concentrate on smaller stores, away from the mega-centers. I've never been to one so have no idea what they're like.
I may go once the 'new' wears off - looking for some upper cabinets for my garage to see how they compare with Home Depot and Lowe's.
IKEA probably should have built the large one in Nashville like they initially planned to instead of Memphis.
Hey, it's Memphis; nuff said right there!! If God ever decides to give the world an enema, Memphis would be a close second to New Orleans as the place to insert the tube . . . . .
My experience with Wayfair:
1) Cheap material and pain to assemble are both correct assessments.
2) Because of #1, like clockwork, some piece of the furniture to be assembled is guaranteed to be cracked, severely bowed, or otherwise damaged. 99% of the time, this is a cosmetic issue only.
3) Because of #2, their furniture is practically free. If you know, you know.
I encourage anybody to try Wayfair for light to moderate use furniture….for these reasons above. And by “these reasons”, I mean Reason #3.
The advanced class is putting together kids' Christmas gifts. I came close many a Christmas Eve letting a string of adult language fly at 1:30 in the morning knowing in three hours they're going to be awake to play with it and in three days it'll either more than likely be broken or they'll be bored with it.
