Comments on: Pick your poison: Ikea or Costco http://luxtechnica.com/pick-your-poison-ikea-or-costco/ The result of a healthy diet of technology, business, and local interest Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:13:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Matthew Cornell http://luxtechnica.com/pick-your-poison-ikea-or-costco/comment-page-1/#comment-7642 Matthew Cornell Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:37:13 +0000 #comment-7642 <p>Nice article. My wife loves driving two hours to CT to go to Ikea, and I just don’t get it. FYI I just wanted to point out an article from a month ago that may be of interest:</p> <p>How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart <a href='http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/business/yourmoney/17costco.html' rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/business/yourmoney/17costco.html</a></p> <p>Registration is required, but it’s also here: <a href='http://www.thinkequity.com/about/articles/nyt_071705.html' rel="nofollow">http://www.thinkequity.com/about/articles/nyt_071705.html</a></p> <p>I generally try to avoid big box stores if there’s a local equivalent, but I’ve vowed to <em>never</em> go to Wal-Mart (shiver).</p> <p>matt</p> Nice article. My wife loves driving two hours to CT to go to Ikea, and I just don’t get it. FYI I just wanted to point out an article from a month ago that may be of interest:

How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/business/yourmoney/17costco.html

Registration is required, but it’s also here: http://www.thinkequity.com/about/articles/nyt_071705.html

I generally try to avoid big box stores if there’s a local equivalent, but I’ve vowed to never go to Wal-Mart (shiver).

matt

]]> By: mkb http://luxtechnica.com/pick-your-poison-ikea-or-costco/comment-page-1/#comment-7638 mkb Wed, 04 May 2005 09:13:53 +0000 #comment-7638 <p>At my housewarming, my friend Winnie walked in the door saying “Let’s play ‘spot the Ikea furniture!’” After a brief look around at my new home, she said “Oh… let’s play ‘spot the non-Ikea furniture.’”</p> <p>She was right. Post-divorce I needed to furnish an entire household. Ikea was close by and had decent looking stuff at reasonable prices. I bought a lot and it has served me well.</p> <p>However, I am now done with them and haven’t set foot in there since 2000. I am hoping to continue that trend indefinitely. The 2x4 that broke the camel’s back was having to wait well over an hour to receive an item I’d already paid for. The real clincher though was having the experience of trying to pop in for one quick purchase rather than doing an entire tour. The store is deliberately laid out to prevent people from leaving easily, instead channeling them through ever department, one by one. I found that when I was overtired, I actually couldn’t find my way out for a while. It sucked.</p> <p>I am done with Ikea though not yet ready to be delivered from my existing Sweedish furniture.</p> <p>(Joebob sez to get the Fight Club soundtrack, btw.)</p> At my housewarming, my friend Winnie walked in the door saying “Let’s play ‘spot the Ikea furniture!’” After a brief look around at my new home, she said “Oh… let’s play ‘spot the non-Ikea furniture.’”

She was right. Post-divorce I needed to furnish an entire household. Ikea was close by and had decent looking stuff at reasonable prices. I bought a lot and it has served me well.

However, I am now done with them and haven’t set foot in there since 2000. I am hoping to continue that trend indefinitely. The 2×4 that broke the camel’s back was having to wait well over an hour to receive an item I’d already paid for. The real clincher though was having the experience of trying to pop in for one quick purchase rather than doing an entire tour. The store is deliberately laid out to prevent people from leaving easily, instead channeling them through ever department, one by one. I found that when I was overtired, I actually couldn’t find my way out for a while. It sucked.

I am done with Ikea though not yet ready to be delivered from my existing Sweedish furniture.

(Joebob sez to get the Fight Club soundtrack, btw.)

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