For all you peeps in Charlotte...

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/16476810.htm

1/17/2007 11:23:01 AM

sweet

1/17/2007 11:25:48 AM

man...i wish it had been raleigh. i can still get to the VA one quicker.

1/17/2007 11:43:46 AM

2009

1/17/2007 11:48:54 AM

^^ that makes no sense at all. maybe if the charlotte one was going to be in south charlotte, but it's in the university area, which is 2.5 hours from here if you drive the speed limit.

1/17/2007 11:52:07 AM

yay crappy furniture!

1/17/2007 11:52:46 AM

is the one in VA less than 2.5 hours from where se7entythree is currently?

1/17/2007 11:54:07 AM

Good idea
I'm in the house like Ikea
A rhyme sayer see-er sayanora soon as I meet ya

1/17/2007 11:57:36 AM

HELL YESSSS

1/17/2007 11:57:43 AM

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"yay crappy furniture!"

yeah it is.

Target furniture is better quality and comparable or cheaper than ikea stuff, but doesn't come in weird "contemporary" shapes.

1/17/2007 12:43:34 PM

omg i live right by high point and thomasville and all those furniture dumps too. lets lay some eggs!

1/17/2007 12:47:00 PM

1/17/2007 12:47:45 PM

Half of me is thinking yay for better design for the poorer. The other is thinking yay for shitty furniture (quality).

1/17/2007 12:55:55 PM

I just want some meatballs

1/17/2007 6:14:21 PM

Cheap and crappy is how they run their business model, and it seems to be working well. Any thoughts/speculations for the choice of Charlotte, versus a potential market of 3-4x that number of students further east?

1/17/2007 7:11:30 PM

it's closer to SC - hicks love that shit

1/17/2007 7:12:24 PM

I just got back from the IKEA in MD

I know when I'm a grown up I'll have nice furniture that comes put together and costs more than $30 and isn't made of particle board, but for right now, IKEA is a godsend.

1/17/2007 11:27:59 PM

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"The Swedish-based retailer of inexpensive modern furniture said Wednesday construction will start soon on a store that will open in spring 2009. It will be the first in the Carolinas for the Swedish-based chain."

Now where are they based, again?

1/17/2007 11:31:12 PM

THEY'RE BIG TIME, NOW

1/17/2007 11:38:42 PM

The Swedish-based company, based in Sweden, is Swedish-based.

1/17/2007 11:42:13 PM

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"^^ that makes no sense at all. maybe if the charlotte one was going to be in south charlotte, but it's in the university area, which is 2.5 hours from here if you drive the speed limit."

what are you talking about? i live in ballantyne which is almost in the middle of south charlotte and it only takes me 40min to get to university area

1/18/2007 12:15:58 AM

Sweet ass!

1/18/2007 7:48:57 AM

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"^^ that makes no sense at all. maybe if the charlotte one was going to be in south charlotte, but it's in the university area, which is 2.5 hours from here if you drive the speed limit."

hey smart ass, i don't live in raleigh

[Edited on January 18, 2007 at 8:22 AM. Reason : ]

1/18/2007 8:21:40 AM

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"it's closer to SC - hicks love that shit "

yeah, all those yanks in NC simply don't flock to Ikea quite as much.

1/18/2007 8:27:51 AM

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"hey smart ass, i don't live in raleigh"

that makes more sense, but your original comment made it seem like you did.

1/18/2007 12:13:23 PM

Sweet! I've been hoping they would build a closer one than DC.

1/18/2007 12:57:40 PM

^^nothing in my original comment said that i lived in raleigh...i just said raleigh would be closer. it doesn't matter anyway...

1/18/2007 1:07:07 PM

The best thing about their furniture is you don't really have to care about it.

I bought a night table last spring...and a few weeks ago my puppy decided to chew off a corner of it. I honestly didn't even really care

1/18/2007 1:23:18 PM

i've got a dresser in the guest room that is from ikea. great quality so far.

solid wood top and sides. the only thing i believe is particle board are the bottoms of the drawers.

cheap too.

1/18/2007 3:47:17 PM

They are shipping all of the building materials to Charlotte in the next few weeks, but it will take a while before the store opens because they have to assemble it with wood glue and allen wrenches.

[Edited on January 18, 2007 at 3:54 PM. Reason : gdf]

1/18/2007 3:54:24 PM