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IKEA ~ From smallest to biggest

Monday, 2. November 2009, 04:34:11

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The opening of a new IKEA store is usually a small-scale event with the odd bargain hunter or two looking for a deal, but the new store in Odense on Funen is drafting in the police, Home Guard and first aid workers on its grand opening Wednesday.

Odense has long held the record for the smallest IKEA store in the world, but that has changed into being the largest venue for the Swedish furniture retailer in Denmark.

The project leader for the opening expects 100,000 visitors in the first four days.

Both the Home Guard and Funen Police will be on site for the first four days. The Home Guard will help control traffic and police will be there to help and advise motorists with parking and stopping.

I need to go to IKEA too to get some things for my upcoming refreshing of my home. But I will sure as hell not go to Funen to get it. I just take my local store, where I know they've got what I want. :yes:

Taking a Break ~ Going to the ZooA tour round the DVD-store

Comments

Carol 2. November 2009, 04:35

:D

Darkest Hour 2. November 2009, 06:29

Maybe a little over the top? :D

Kitty 2. November 2009, 06:31

@ Carol ~ :smile:

@ DH ~ That's exactly what I thought! :D

Darkest Hour 2. November 2009, 06:33

I personally don't like Ikea anyway... Guess I wont be queuing up.. :lol:

Carol 2. November 2009, 06:36

Hi Kitty :smile:

Kitty 2. November 2009, 06:51

@ DH ~ I love IKEA. Will go there later this week. :yes:

@ Carol ~ Hello there. :smile:

Carol 2. November 2009, 06:54

Just sent you a pm.

Kitty 2. November 2009, 07:02

I have seen it, thank you, and replied too. :smile:

Carol 2. November 2009, 07:08

You are welcome. :smile:

Kimmie 2. November 2009, 08:05

I've never been to Ikea :left: . The measures for that store opening are so extreme it's funny :lol:

Gavin Sheedy 2. November 2009, 08:35

I remember reading last year that people got trampled to death when one opened somewhere; so when they opened in Northern Ireland, the first Ikea on the island, not so long a go, they took extreme measures too... not even that many people turned up. Maybe they didn't want to risk getting trampled to death :idea: .

The law had to be changed in the republic before they could open there, earlier this year.

r♡se 2. November 2009, 09:56

Trampling, knife stabbing and fighting - all normal in a new IKEA store opening... p:

I like IKEA's Swedish food shop :D.

Kitty 2. November 2009, 09:57

@ Kimmie ~ If I had lived closer to the Ikea I would perhaps have gone there to see if there were that many people. :D

@ Gavin ~ They changed Irish law to open an Ikea there? What kind of law was that? :interested:

Kitty 2. November 2009, 09:58

Originally posted by Rose:

Trampling, knife stabbing and fighting

Sounds pretty much like a normal sale downtown too! :D
I like some of the food too. Especially the prices. :lol:

The Dark Furie 2. November 2009, 10:38

What ya buying kitten?

Martin K 2. November 2009, 10:51

Tomorrow is the big day. I guess I will have to go there with my camera and get some pictures. It's quite an event. I can come around with a fresh report tomorrow evening, if you want me to...

Kitty 2. November 2009, 10:59

@ Mik ~ The biggest thing for now is a mattress and a few pillows. Once I'm done in my living room I will go back and buy myself a new sofa. :yes:

@ Lion ~ Yes please, that would be very cool indeed!

Gavin Sheedy 2. November 2009, 11:34

Got to love Google! :smile:

Kitty 2. November 2009, 11:37

Google is indeed our friend :smile:
Do I understand it correct - that before the law changed, Ikea was only allowed to build a store next to a motorway? Because of the size of the store?

Gavin Sheedy 2. November 2009, 11:51

It's not very clear, is it? No, I don't think so, because Ikea in Dublin is beside a motorway. They may only have been allowed to built it in a industrial estate, and I can't think of one that's got buildings big enough to support them in Ireland, not even nearly.

The Dark Furie 2. November 2009, 12:23

Ooo, we'll take a new sofa while you're at it. :up:

Kitty 2. November 2009, 12:27

@ Gavin ~ No, it wasn't very clear at all. :smile:
But Ikeas are supposed to be big - I mean, they're supposed to hold a lot of furniture!

@ Mik ~ Yes? How big? What colour? :D

Gavin Sheedy 2. November 2009, 12:33

And good restaurants. :D I have one twenty minutes, on foot, from where I work.

The Dark Furie 2. November 2009, 12:38

A little two seater with massive cushions in a pastel red would be nice. :up: Oh, and no bombs please.

Kitty 2. November 2009, 12:39

True. :D I think my nearest Ikea is 20 Km from here. awww

Kitty 2. November 2009, 12:41

No bombs?! awww I mean... just a small one? Pwease? awww

Gavin Sheedy 2. November 2009, 12:42

Right then, I can get it on my way home from work, drop from the 'plane when I next fly to Ireland.

The Dark Furie 2. November 2009, 12:44

Okay, just a small one, but you owe me for this.

Gavin Sheedy 2. November 2009, 12:46

Dropping a bomb from a 'plane might be misconstrued as a hostile act.

Kitty 2. November 2009, 12:47

@ Gavin ~ Ha, that'd be cool! :lol: But I think I get one of my friends to drive me there instead, it's somewhat easier, and quicker too. :D :lol:

@ Mik ~ :yay: Thanks!! :happy:

Martin K 2. November 2009, 12:49

Correction: IKEA Odense opens on wedensday, not tomorrow, so you'll have to wait until then for that report. For the record: Danish home guard is always there when people are expecting traffick chaos, also on minor events. It's part of their duty. It's not because anyone is expecting terrorist attacks or anything like that. They will just be there in yellow vests directing traffick.

By the way: I'm going to IKEA to buy stuff later this month. It's about time I got myself a bed, since the home made bed I have for the moment has gotten a little peculiar lately. Consumer tests state that an IKEA bed has the same scientific values (whatever that means) as the far more expensive designer beds which they sell for ten times the prize of the IKEA standard. And frankly I don't mind if the bed has been build by ten year old Chinese children for a bowl of rice a day. No, I don't care. I'm that evil.

Hermitess 2. November 2009, 14:36

I've never been to an IKEA. :left:

*feels left out* :frown:

I do get mail order catalogs from Pottery Barn Kids, even though I don't have any kids. :right: Homer: Doh!

Does this up my coolness factor any?

Kitty 2. November 2009, 15:01

@ Lion ~ Ikea beds should be quite good. The only reason that I don't have one myself is that they didn't have one I liked the looks of. :D

@ Hermitess ~ Aww, don't feel left out. Kimmie hasn't been to Ikea either, and she's cool. :smile:
I've never even heard about Pottery Barn kids. awww

Hermitess 2. November 2009, 15:29

I think Pottery Barn is the US version of Ikea. I haven't ever been there either so I'm not sure. p:

The Dark Furie 2. November 2009, 15:37

Isn't Ikea the US version of Ikea? :lol: It's the shop where you get things flatpacked and put them together yourself.

Gavin Sheedy 2. November 2009, 15:37

Swedish.

The Dark Furie 2. November 2009, 15:44

Swedish?

Gavin Sheedy 2. November 2009, 15:45

Ikea.

Martin K 2. November 2009, 15:57

Swedes are lucky, because they still have wood left. Denmark has been low on wood for about 200 years. This is why we don't have any production of furniture in Denmark, even though we have some of the World's best designers in the area. This is also one of the reasons why we don't like Swedes (apart from the fact that they usually beat us in football, but that's another story): they actually have natural ressources left, and only because they have this really big country. It's not fair. We want Sweden bakc. It used to belong to us, you know, until they got 'independent'. Guess it must be time to get the longships offshore again. Only, we can't do that, because we have no wood to build longships from. It just isn't fair.

:raider:

Gavin Sheedy 2. November 2009, 16:04

That's not how they tell it, it was a "union", don't you know, 'till the Stockholm bloodbath, where the streets were running with blood, and the rise of King Gustav Vasa. p:

But the furniture is usually made in lands where labour is cheaper than Sweden now.

And, um, there are about 9,2 million Swedish citizens, and how many Danes...? :left:

Angeliki 2. November 2009, 17:02

I find amazing that IKEA still sends me their annual book even if my last visit was some years ago.
I find the professional and I see many new couples start their new household buying from IKEA.
I bought a bed comforter back then,
that I still use and enjoy immensely :up:

Looking forward to your new sofa pictures(when you get it...),

and I LOVE the post cat picture! :lol:

Cat with instructions? yeah right! :lol: that will be the first! p:

Gavin Sheedy 2. November 2009, 17:16

(Of course, I'd never heard of the Swedish siege of Copenhagen either, 'till I visited Kopenhamnsby museum).

The Dark Furie 2. November 2009, 18:30

Oh right. Yeah I know. But it's in America too so the US version is actually Ikea itself.

Martin K 2. November 2009, 18:57

New statistics shows 5.519.441 Danes in Denmark. However, Sweden is awfully big compared to Denmark. Much more space for each citizen in Sweden than in Denmark. And they have Volvo. And Barsebäck. And Bofors. And last but not least Stieg Larsson. All we have is wind and rain. It just isn't fair.

:D

r♡se 2. November 2009, 19:09

Well, the Swedish parts that once were Danish doesn't have much more than wind either p:.

Gavin Sheedy 2. November 2009, 19:12

:lol: And ye have Copenhagen, so that's not bad.

True for you, Mr. Furie.

Kitty 2. November 2009, 19:59

I don't believe that Sweden has Stieg Larsson anymore. :left:

Martin K 2. November 2009, 20:02

Jokes aside, I like being a Dane and is, in fact, quite proud of my country, and my grudge towards Swedes is just a kind tease. Also, I believe a Scandinavian reunion is a good idea. We have much in common and it could be of benefit to unite in some way. Everybody outside Scvandinavia believes we are just one country anyway. The way I see it, we are brother peoples, seperated by unfortunate events in the past. Let's forget about all that, now that Denmark has the biggest IKEA in the North.

Jurjen 2. November 2009, 21:23

Originally posted by Aqualion:

believes we are just one country anyway


You're telling me Denmark and Sweden are countries and not just provinces of Scandinavia?! :eyes: :lol:

I guess we (dutch) have the same issues with Belgium. Which in fact is part of our country. I mean they try to maintain an own country, but in fact they can't manage in that task at all!

Ikea, is however king of the world!

I saw this some time ago, I thought it was kind of funny :smile:
http://www.vimeo.com/4921692

RedFreya 2. November 2009, 22:55

Originally posted by Aqualion:

Also, I believe a Scandinavian reunion is a good idea.


Why not recreate Knut Sweynsson empire (England, Denmark, Norway and parts of Sweden . After all the "English" have Danish as well German and Dutch origins. Also many Danes stayed after their frequent, er, um, "visits" in their long ships in the 9th century (Danelaw area). You could call the new state Ikealand :lol: p:

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