Is it our time to have slick Swedish furniture and accessories at our fingertips? Perhaps. After what seems like an eternity (or, since its Burnside location closed decades ago) of hoping, wishing and speculating, it looks like IKEA could finally be returning to town.
The president of IKEA Canada, Stefan Sjöstrand, will be in town this Friday, hanging out with your man Mike Savage and making some kind mysterious formal announcement to the media. (I got this.) The chain announced last November that it would be doubling its Canadian locations over the next 10 years. So there’s that.
I’d say start warming up your assembly skills (and instructional-manual- reading-muscles), but more on Friday.
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This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2016.
Why does The Coast have such a hard on for Ikea?
Ikea is a good store and halifax is a prime location for a pick up store. Like perfect
Oh goody. MORE cheap shit to buy in the BLIP. Kids, it’s cheap shit at an expensive price, just like it was on the early 80’s… Daddy knows.
Most likely it will be one of the new pick up points which started opening last year as part of the expansion. Ikea has a policy of opening in areas with a population of 1 000 000 and Halifax doesn’t have that, NS doesn’t even have that.
PICK-UP POINTS will allow customers who have shopped online or at an IKEA store to pick up their products closer to where they live. Customers will also be able to; buy services to support their purchases, sit at a computer station to browse http://www.IKEA.ca to make online purchases, as well as having access to 99 products available for immediate takeaway. IKEA currently has 12 stores across Canada and sees a great growth potential in opening Pick-Up-Points, whose format is part of a global test pilot, in markets where there are currently no stores.
I’m pretty confident it will be a full fledged store. Probably Dartmouth Crossing. But we shall see.