Somerville Ikea closer to reality?

[georgy.livejournal.com]

It may be true.

Comments

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who's kind of over the whole Ikea thing?

I've only been to the MA location once, and I left with a wooden spoon.

[in-parentheses.livejournal.com]

That seems sensible. It's not like "land behind Home Depot" is pristine and untouched by big-box stores, so I feel much more ok about an Ikea going there than right on the river. I do worry about traffic, though - it seems like everyone who has to get in or out of Stoughton kind of hated their lives after that one opened.

[in-parentheses.livejournal.com]

Word. The last thing I need in my life is more heavy particle-board furniture with wacky names.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much true of any IKEA anywhere in the world, though. I went to one in Jönköping, Sweden, and my friends were complaining about it.

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

everyone needs furniture with wacky names!

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

Stoughton one got much better after january. and would also lessen the traffic at the somerville one as southerners would go there.. though NH and ME people would come to somerville.. but that's only fair as MA people go to NH for their cars and bring traffic there and ME for the outlets..

[out-2-lunch.livejournal.com]

Me too. Never been to the MA one, but I've had two Ikea experiences (one in NJ and one in CA)...I really don't like their merchandise, not to mention the crowds.

Loyal Opposition

[ilhander.livejournal.com]

Just for the record, I'd actually be happy about it.

True, not all their merchandise is of the best quality; you do have to caveat your emptoring there, just like anywhere else. It's still true that an educated consumer is the best shopper.

And no, I wouldn't go there for heirloom furniture I intended to hand down to my putative and at this point unlikely heirs.

But when you don't feel the need to pay $90 for a desk lamp, or a wooden spoon for cripesakes, and you don't particularly want to wait for the perfect, adorable antique thinger to appear at a reasonable price in some flea market or consignment shop, you can get a lamp (or spoon) there for $10 (or $2) and have light on your desk (or stir your stew), carnsarnit!

Besides, the weird names are cute.

Re: Loyal Opposition

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

I agree.

[cos]

I don't much like the placing of Ikeas in dense urban places. I think they belong near the interesections of major interstates in sparsely developed areas. Like, at 495 & the pike.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

It's right on the 93. Hard to do much better with respect to traffic than "on an interstate".

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

One of the Mystic View Task Force's ongoing complaints is that people have to drive so far to get to an Ikea.

You would think they'd approve of one right next to a planned subway stop and a major metropolis. But, of course, they don't. Whenever one of their objections gets shot down, they invent another one.

[artic-monkeys.livejournal.com]

I object! look what they are doing now! http://somervillenews.typepad.com/the_somerville_news/2006/04/news_talk_for_t_2.html#comment-16614888