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...unless you just bought $3K of furniture after a move and it only cost $49 to deliver downtown!
How do you manage to spend 3k in IKEA?
A couch, a bedframe, a mattress, maybe a dresser, and end tables?
Ikea has bought TaskRabbit
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> The store build-out on this model may be done, at least in the US. It most definitely is NOT. For instance the nearest Ikea to the Raleigh/Triangle area is over 2 hours away. There are 24 US states without a single Ikea store.
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_plan...
Still no Hawaii location...
They could double or triple their prices, and they'd still be much cheaper than the competition. :-(
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I 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 c…
Ugh, 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.
Any idea why? I've never seen a store add them and then remove them.
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#104This is hilarious/perfect to me personally, because I have only ever used TaskRabbit to hire someone to build Ikea furniture.
...or to pick up furniture at an IKEA location, since they're usually way out in the suburbs and shipping prices are exorbitant.
Precisely. While I happen to enjoy building IKEA furniture (in small doses), I would be pleased never to pick it up from a store ever again.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ugh, 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.
Any idea why? I've never seen a store add them and then remove them.
Actually, 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.
Re: Ikea has bought TaskRabbit
#106This is an interesting move, a design/manufacturing/retail company buying a labor marketplace company. Ikea has grown a ton based on having widely appealing products at extremely low prices. Their growth over the past decade has been driven by expanding their physical retail presence on the one-giant-store-per-city model. The store build-out on this model may be done, at least in the US. Still, many potential buyers…
> Their growth over the past decade has been driven by expanding their physical retail presence on the one-giant-store-per-city model.
One? Hamburg (1.5mio ppl) alone has 3, plus several more within of 1h driving distance.
Re: Ikea has bought TaskRabbit
#107This is an interesting move, a design/manufacturing/retail company buying a labor marketplace company. Ikea has grown a ton based on having widely appealing products at extremely low prices. Their growth over the past decade has been driven by expanding their physical retail presence on the one-giant-store-per-city model. The store build-out on this model may be done, at least in the US. Still, many potential buyers…
> Their growth over the past decade has been driven by expanding their physical retail presence on the one-giant-store-per-city model. One? Hamburg (1.5mio ppl) alone has 3, plus several more within of 1h driving distance.
I think the parent comment was referring to how IKEA operates in the US.
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#108I hope they keep the ability to hire tasks other than furniture assembly! I use Taskrabbit at least every week. They are our operations team!
Re: Ikea has bought TaskRabbit
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The store build-out on this model may be done, at least in the US. It most definitely is NOT. For instance the nearest Ikea to the Raleigh/Triangle area is over 2 hours away. There are 24 US states without a single Ikea store.
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_plan...
Chicago has had two locations for like a decade now.
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#110I hope this improves IKEA's absolutely awful installation experience. I recently did some kitchen cabinets, and while the people who did the actual install were great, everything about the experience was awful. IKEA contracted it out to Traemand, who sub-contracted it out to a local company. The local company was really hard to get ahold of and kept losing paperwork and not scheduling things. Once they did schedule s…
The main issue there is that Ikea isn't owning the installation process. They should be making sure that they know who's doing the work, when they're showing up, etc. And then tracking that, so if one group of contractors has consistent problems, they can be fired.
That's a problem in the logistics industry as a whole. Nobody owns anything and everybody has a subcontractor.