The New IKEA
I passed by IKEA earlier tonight, the new one which is located at the Avenues Mall. It IS huge, very huge. I really liked the new place, the whole mall although still closed looks massive. The most noticable update at IKEA has to be the restaurant, its now around 4 or 5 times larger then it was before. Actually what am I saying, the whole place is like 4 times larger. Its now a really long walk from the beginning till the end.
I had dinner at the IKEA restaurant, Chicken Masala with Rice. It was pretty good but to help paint a picture on how big the new IKEA is, by the time I got to the exit I was hungry again and ended up ordering food from the snack stand near the exit. The new snack stand by the way is a huge improvement over the old one. Other then corn, ice cream, and hotdogs they now have shawerma. I decided to order one just to try it, I would probably give it a 3 out of 5, still need to pass by and try it one more time before I can give my final score though.
The biggest change in the new IKEA is that you now have to pick up your packages yourself just before you get to the cashier. You enter this huge warehouse like room and its just shelves and shelves of packed goods. Someone told me IKEA did this to bring down the prices of the products by 10%. Whatever their reason I know many people will not like the fact that they now have to do manual labor. I took a picture of one of the shelves which you can view by clicking [Here]
Overall I think its a really great improvement. Although I really liked the old IKEA I think the new one is better in every way.
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19 Comments, add your own...
1. moocherx | November 23rd, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Damn. I was totally going to stay in tomorrow and start my new batch of wine, and play all day with my new Watania EDGE internet… if it works… but now you’ve forced me to go down to IKEA to see the locals attempting to push round those big trolleys with their packages on.
I’m even going to take my camera, this is bound to produce some excellent YouTube material.
2. g-love | November 23rd, 2006 at 10:54 pm
mark were you wearing a “geek” T-shirt by any chance
3. Mark | November 23rd, 2006 at 10:56 pm
yes i was
4. g-love | November 23rd, 2006 at 11:10 pm
a ha dont ask me why but I thought it was you……… fucking wierd! avenues looks is pretty impressive from the first time i went there.
5. Mark | November 23rd, 2006 at 11:12 pm
ah you saw me at IKEA? that was weird how u figured it was me lol
6. g-love | November 23rd, 2006 at 11:14 pm
yep bro- I dont get it- that is really really odd
7. s | November 24th, 2006 at 1:58 am
Avenues will open in January.. thats what i heard..
8. as | November 24th, 2006 at 2:42 am
there are 3 Parts To The Avenues , THe First Part ONLY Will open in January
9. holla | November 24th, 2006 at 3:10 am
there aren’t too many big cracka geeks in kuwait LOL
10. jane | November 24th, 2006 at 4:17 am
that poor old lady ended up in your warehouse picture!
poor lady! brush her out or something…
11. Mar Yoom | November 24th, 2006 at 6:15 am
I was at the new IKEA yesterday, loved it as well! I wondered though, how are we expected to reach the uppermost shelves?:)
12. Purgatory | November 24th, 2006 at 9:54 am
If you go to Ikea abroad, that is how Ikea looks like anyways with warehouses, and it still sucks.
13. Tan Go | November 24th, 2006 at 10:01 am
moocherx.. pls your wine recipe.. thanks much
14. iDip | November 24th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
what a coincidence!
I was there last night, and I brought back this chair:
http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=7&langId=-20&catalogId=10101&productId=43007
(dark brown)
for my study room
15. equalizer | November 24th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
I think it has a major flaw! you have to walk like an hour to get to a section you want, which sux. Makes your life miserable if you forgot to get let say spoons.
16. Marzouq | November 24th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
Damn looks like everyone is going there! Its pretty close to me so Im going to check it out later this week! The place looks huge when Im passing by it so I want to check it out!
17. Maze | November 27th, 2006 at 12:05 am
Mark were you at Ikea on thursday around 5:30 pm?…i was there too and g-love drew my attention about the shirt..u were not alone sa7?
18. Mark | November 27th, 2006 at 9:11 am
yup i was with Nat
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