Beijing loves IKEA, but not for shopping

[ferkel]

Interesting article! BUT I see the same thing happen at Ikea North York and Vaughan. Kids jumping on couches, beds, people sleeping in mattresses. I've noticed you can now buy a lot of cheap knock off Ikea furniture from Loblaws, Walmart, etc.

[taxman007]

Lol that cracked me up. I wonder if ppl also bring in food to cook in the demo kitchen.

haha

Interesting article! BUT I see the same thing happen at Ikea North York and Vaughan. Kids jumping on couches, beds, people sleeping in mattresses. I've noticed you can now buy a lot of cheap knock off Ikea furniture from Loblaws, Walmart, etc.

Knockoffs of IKEA? Wow. I find IKEA to be pretty cheap & poor quality itself. I can only imagine what the knockoffs would be like.

[chadjustine]

Knockoffs of IKEA? Wow. I find IKEA to be pretty cheap & poor quality itself. I can only imagine what the knockoffs would be like.

Really? I find their build quality "decent" (not great, not horrible). My biggest complaint with Ikea stuff is that it is all .. er .. vanilla. Everything is so bland looking. No character.

[Jon Lai]

Really? I find their build quality "decent" (not great, not horrible). My biggest complaint with Ikea stuff is that it is all .. er .. vanilla. Everything is so bland looking. No character.

But it's supposed to be minimalist.

[MrDisco]

Other then not contributing to this thread, was there a point to your post? did you have some insight you wanted to share?

lol imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Thanks! But yes there was a point which you seemed to have missed - let's move on beyond reposting entire articles verbatim and start adding some commentary. It's not that difficult.

Yes. I posted it so others could read the article. As you can see some people did find the article quite interesting.

If I wanted Digg I could go there. Should we start using RFD to simply copy entire tracts of text for no apparent reason? I mean really how hard is it to distill the article and throw in your 2 cents?

[chadjustine]

But it's supposed to be minimalist.

Ohhhh ok. Thank you for bolding that as well. Much easier to get your point across.

[champlinD]

Interesting article! BUT I see the same thing happen at Ikea North York and Vaughan. Kids jumping on couches, beds, people sleeping in mattresses. I've noticed you can now buy a lot of cheap knock off Ikea furniture from Loblaws, Walmart, etc.

No photos? I mean of people sleeping at IKEA North York.

[rehearser]

Nice article.. it really gives the sense that China is starting to stray far away from it's rough past. Must feel like entering a new world and seeing new things to them. China's catching up fast.

+1

good article too.

[ndrew029]

Freeloaders! IKEA needs a way to scare off the people that don't buy anything...

Alan Wrench: You put it together yourself! All you need is me, Alan Wrench!

Homer: He's named after what he is.

Bart: Hey, cool costume!

Alan Wrench: (Robotic voice) It's not a costume. They found me in a meteor!

Marge: Where do you keep your sparkplugs?

Alan Wrench: (Normal voice) Sparkplugs? Third aisle. (Robotic, to Bart) Help! I need tungsten to live! Tungsten!

[sqrl]

It'll be some time before they become consumerist and prop up the global economy. The US won't be replaced anytime soon.

Thanks OP, interesting read.

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2...a_48853648.jpg
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2...a_48853645.jpg

Some of the pics show freeloaders hanging around but everyone else seems to be shopping, hardly unusual in any shopping centre. I think it's hard to take away any specific insight from the article about Chinese consumer trends.

[Kuurgen]

Yes. I posted it so others could read the article. As you can see some people did find the article quite interesting.

Thanks OP, was a interesting piece. I may go take a nap at my local ikea now

[wikkid_bigshot]

erm... I doubt they change the linens.... which means swine flu spread start NOW!

Im Chinese myself and 've been to Beijing so I know (esp the surrounding small towners) dont care about hygiene or cleaniness but here we look at just say SICK YO