Hallelujah, Pass the Meatballs!
April 19th, 2005IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today announced that its Atlanta, GA store will open this Summer on Wednesday, June 29, 2005. The store will be the Swedish company’s 23rd in the U.S. and first in the Southeast. Until IKEA Atlanta opens, the closest IKEA stores are in Houston, TX and Woodbridge, VA.
I can watch the construction from my window at work. I can’t wait.
April 19th, 2005 at 6:21 pm
Congratulations on your new addition! When we lived in Cincinnati (OH), my wife and I drove to Indianapolis (IN) for a Nordstroms (technically, my wife dragged me kicking and screaming, but that’s a semantic issue at this point). IKEA would be worth a drive, but not Georgia to Virginia, so I’m sure you’re very pleased.
April 19th, 2005 at 7:19 pm
They have some pretty good coffee. But I’ll tell you: if my wife wants to truly torture me, she forces me to make a trip to Ikea with her.
April 20th, 2005 at 7:00 am
Attack of the Swedes!
(via LTR) IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today announced that its Atlanta, GA store will open this Summer on Wednesday, June 29, 2005. The store will be the Swedish company’s 23rd in the U.S. and first in the…
April 20th, 2005 at 9:30 am
Woohoo!!!
April 21st, 2005 at 5:09 am
I live in a part of Sweden where the nearest IKEA is a ninety-minute drive away… although, having said that, our ‘local’ varuhus, which is in an otherwise utterly unremarkable middle-of-nowhere town called Älmhult, is the original one, or, as we call it, the mothership, the body from which IKEA’ globe-encircling tentacles proceed.