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So that Red Hook IKEA seems to be doing quite well, thank you. McBrooklyn has an amusing account of check-out lines lasting well over an hour at the Swedish retailer this weekend: "We were so far back there was no way to even tell if we were in a cash only line or a credit and debit only line. People were getting pretty grumpy, let me tell you. A woman jumped ahead of us in line. When we pointed this out, she moved behind us, only to be challenged by the customer back there. She moved behind that customer, only to be berated by the next one. And so she worked her back to the back of the line, irate customer by irate customer." And don't get Lost City started on how B61 drivers have taken to hanging out at the IKEA parking lot, instead of driving their route during rush hour.
Long Lines Wreak "Havoc" at Red Hook IKEA
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I was there on Saturday afternoon. Two lines snaked through the entire furniture section and nearly hit the portal to the Marketplace area. They seriously need more cashiers and lanes there. I can't believe people would be willing to wait well over 30 minutes just to pay.
I was there around noon on Sunday (for an awesome $29 coffee table) and I was on line for less than five minutes. There was also no long wait for Swedish meatballs (which I also had for dinner today, yum)...
On a seperate note - I LOVE IKEA
I know its trendy to be pissy about the "suburbanization" of this city, but if you actually grew up here you know how much better it is now than back in the day. I, for one, hope they build a Starbuck, IKEA, Costco and Target all outside my building and that rents in my neighborhood double, and all of those nasty "mom and pop" shops with their health code violations and sub-par selection go permanently out of business. I also hope that all of you elitists that get upset and jump on me for this post move in next door to me and become my neighbors, because your whiny asses are better than getting mugged.
I was there on Saturday afternoon and absolutely, the lines were terrible. Well, more specifically, the line I was in was terrible. While lines on either side of us moved with reasonable speed, our line was stagnated. The reason became clear as we (slowly) made our way to the front. Cashier Shawnee felt compelled to leave her register for 5, 10, maybe even 15 minutes at a time to "help" customers with their flat packs and packages. After a particularly frustrating 15 minute absence a few people in our line went up to a manager and pointed out that our cashier wasn't manning her post and the problem was (sort of) corrected. Painful. The line took 45-60mins for me to buy 2 pillows.
Huh. I was there the first weekend in August and had no problem getting through the checkout line at around 2 pm on a Saturday afternoon. I guess everyone was avoiding the IKEA because they assumed it would be a mad house, then word got out that it wasn't a mad house, so everyone went out to IKEA and made it a mad house?
Quite the troll-like, inflammatory statement.
But I bet you a majority of the people here agree with you. Big business is good for small business. Starbucks is a good example. More people got into half caf soy lattes, thus driving discretionary income away from--say--juice bars, thus helping the coffee shop industry as a whole. And it required those gross coffee shops (one was closed in my area for health a year ago...it. was. nasty.) to innovate, clean up, and have good service to stay with the game and maybe rake in some of that new latte money from caffeine-crazed consumers.
I was there in the second week and the thing that pissed me off the most was that I waited in line for 30 minutes and the cashier said they didn't accept cash! I had to pay credit but if I didn't have a cc I'd be pissed off as hell cause they had no signs.
This is another example of a good franchise being completely mishandled by a rude, lazy local staff. See also: Target.
Adults who try to cut in line should have their limbs removed. Grow up people, that was pathetic in kindergarten.
why the hell you would even go there on a weekend, well that's yer own damn fault. The store is pretty much desolate (cue tumbleweeds) on any given weekday. I mean DEAD. If they weren't getting so many tax breaks, it would probably be a miserable failure already.
God knows I try to buy as much of my shit online as possible. I hate shopping.
i went there last wednesday night. i hit the checkout lines around 9pm and didn't get out of the store until 9:35. they reached basically back to the first massive storage rack of self-serve flatpacks. The wait was like the one on line at the concession stands at yankee stadium- an interminable, miserable, kafka-esque affair.
I went to IKEA on monday night. It was pretty empty. But regardless of how long the lines are I do not think you can check out in less than half an hour.