Ikea holds out hope?

I got lost in Rhodes IKEA not long after it was opened. Stupidly I didn’t follow the correct route and veered to where I thought I should go and deadset got lost, I had no idea which way I should go.
They’ve either modelled their store layout on an amusement park ride or Canberra…

The next IKEA is being built at Tempe on the Princes Highway and will be the headquarters for SE Asian operations – it will be bigger than Rhodes.

harvyk1 said :

Furthermore I would suggest that IKEA is looking more for low to middle income earners, thus having a higher proportion of high income earners probably wouldn’t sway them.

Are you insinuating that IKEA is not good enough for Canberrans? 😉

toriness said :

i find it astounding that IKEA is opening another 2 sydney stores when they recently closed two (moore park and blacktown) there.

I thought Blacktown IKEA was “relocated” to Rhodes? The Blacktown one was too small to start off with.

IKEA will not open any store unless the local population is 1 million or more. Its their policy.

i find it astounding that IKEA is opening another 2 sydney stores when they recently closed two (moore park and blacktown) there.

Ugh. Keep it out. Ikea is to home furnishing what Maccas is to fine food.

harvyk1 said :

From what I have heard about IKEA, they only set up shop in area’s with greater than 1 million people in population.

Perhaps they are only opening half a shop, or a very small one, or one which is only open four hours a day.

watto23 said :

I can understand why Ikea would hold out based on population, however that said I’d have thought the low unemployment, relatively high average income and also high disposable income in canberra could make it profitable.

Even a smaller store without all the stock on hand, but the ability to ship it down from Sydney in a couple of days and pick up and pay locally, especially for the lower turnover items.

However that said I’m sure Ikea have looked into this and probably don’t think it will make enpough money.

From what I have heard about IKEA, they only set up shop in area’s with greater than 1 million people in population.

Which means that we would need to double in size (I believe our pop is a little over 500,000 if you include QBN and our surrounding area’s) before IKEA would even think to look at us.

Whilst yes CBR does have low unemployment and high income, a person only needs so many bookshelves in their house. Furthermore I would suggest that IKEA is looking more for low to middle income earners, thus having a higher proportion of high income earners probably wouldn’t sway them.

troll-sniffer said :

http://thingsboganslike.wordpress.com/

Say no more, maaate, say no more.

Not sure what this link has to do with IKEA unless you are trying to say that Bogans like it?

Even a smaller store without all the stock on hand

That wouldn’t find IKEA’s business model, and businesses that don’t stick to their business model, don’t stay businesses for too long.