SaligoBay Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 According to the Journal de l'Emploi, Ikea will open on September 28.Don't all rush at once, you know what happens! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le bouffon Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Like wow man ikea in the herault ,34 for ever dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted September 1, 2005 Author Share Posted September 1, 2005 Indeed. I just had to post, I was soooooo excited this morning to see that they've finally managed to put the name on the outside wall. It is no longer just a blue-and-yellow box. My life is punctuated by such thrills, I sometimes wonder how I stand the excitement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victoria Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 I have a confession to make - I visited the newly opened IKEA on our recent visit. We're furnishing our house and I just had to have their loss leader - an iron day bed at £50.00 (mattress and base extra). It looks perfect in our top bedroom and just imagine what a fashionably rusty one from a brocante would have cost!We avoided the first day and went on the third so that things would have had time to calm down and we wouldn't be trampled. It was still a close call tho. We had to park our car about a quarter of a mile from the store and tramp over rough hummocky ground to reach it (husband was furious!) When we got there it was a real culture shock - some of the staff actually smiled at us (they'd obviously been on a course). This can only be a good thing for the French retail trade - I'm sure an assistant in Castorama swore at us once - in French obviously so we couldn't be sure.As we were waiting to buy the stuff happy smiling youngsters came round with bottles of water and sweeties. It was all a bit Stepford Wives. I don't know that I prefer the French their usually grumpy selves now. Contrary or what! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victoria Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 I have a confession to make - I visited the newly opened IKEA on our recent visit. We're furnishing our house and I just had to have their loss leader - an iron day bed at £50.00 (mattress and base extra). It looks perfect in our top bedroom and just imagine what a fashionably rusty one from a brocante would have cost!We avoided the first day and went on the third so that things would have had time to calm down and we wouldn't be trampled. It was still a close call tho. We had to park our car about a quarter of a mile from the store and tramp over rough hummocky ground to reach it (husband was furious!) When we got there it was a real culture shock - some of the staff actually smiled at us (they'd obviously been on a course). This can only be a good thing for the French retail trade - I'm sure an assistant in Castorama swore at us once - in French obviously so we couldn't be sure.As we were waiting to buy the stuff happy smiling youngsters came round with bottles of water and sweeties. It was all a bit Stepford Wives. I don't know that I prefer the French their usually grumpy selves now. Contrary or what! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 SB has gone rather quet lately, apart from doing the necessary school visit and going doing her`daily` job, I`ll bet she spends the rest of her day being wooed by the smiley staff in this new store...do they have good bathroom scales SB that will tell me what I want to see?Mrs O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 SB has gone rather quiet lately, apart from doing the necessary school visit and going doing her`daily` job, I`ll bet she spends the rest of her day being wooed by the smiley staff in this new store...do they have good bathroom scales SB that will tell me what I want to see?Mrs O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted October 9, 2005 Author Share Posted October 9, 2005 I am a modest, quiet person, I like to stay in the background.And anyway, I haven't been there yet. But I am tempted by the thought of smiling, friendly staff in a French shop. This I MUST see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 Next year I will be able to tell you about the Rennes store.I hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 [quote]I am a modest, quiet person, I like to stay in the background. And anyway, I haven't been there yet. But I am tempted by the thought of smiling, friendly staff in a French shop. This I MUST see![/quote]Get Hub to take the Cam thingy, cos you gotta convince us somehow that there were smiles and please do tell me if the meat balls are just as enticing as they were in Wembley ! !Alexis , don't hold your breath, that's all we have heard for a couple of years. People ask us "I thought you said IKEA was coming to town ?" So I wonder where did we all hear that then, I thought it was in the newspaper but... ? Cos it isn't on their website about new sites. It better be quick as I am person non gratis with Conforama and BUT are still cheesing me of with the portable TV that won't work and the two good shops that were on the Route du Meuble are no longer there ! Still there is Atlas and Fly, ah ha, so that's why people are waiting for IKEA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 Well Confo is the non gratis thing with me. I wouldn't buy anything from them again, and wouldn't recommend them to anyone at all ever.I have never bought anything from But, I don't know why, I just never got the impression that they would have been 'serious' about guarantees, but really they couldn't have been anyworse than Confo or the Camif for that matter.I made my first furniture purchases from Ikea three weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceni Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 The style and colours of BUT, Conforama etc are wondrous to behold but sadly we are unappreciative. So it will be back to Ikea - if only we had a store closer than Toulouse, over 2 hrs away.Johnnot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 I got taken to the Nantes Ikea must have been three years ago. I was an Ikea virgin up till then. I asked at the time if they were planning on opening one a bit nearer to me and they said 2007 for Rennes.....I have been counting the daysNot so long ago, there was an article in Ouest France about the new shop but I didn't see it and dopey lugs didn't pay enough attention to be able to give me the details. Men! However, I believe they are bringing the opening forward to next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Alexis,Straight from the Swedish HQ in France.They confirm what you were told but really not sure if we can wait that long without getting our fill of Swedish fare......it might mean a trip to Nantes? Do they do 'balls' there ?Bonjour Mme ......,Un magasin IKEA doit en effet ouvrir ses portes à Rennes en 2007.Nous ne disposons pas de plus d'information pour le moment.Cordialement, Laurence Centre de contacts clients IKEA www.ikea.fr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 All the same these Swedes...turnip heads. HA HA HA HA HA Old Sun joke!I might actually be going to Nantes tomorrow....fingers crossed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 Nantes ! Alexis, you may buy something and not come back...rated once again in Le Point as the numero uno place to live in France, Rennes has gone up the league this time and Saint Malo is in the top 50 now !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted October 18, 2005 Author Share Posted October 18, 2005 Get Hub to take the Cam thingy, cos you gotta convince us somehow that there were smiles and please do tell me if the meat balls are just as enticing as they were in Wembley ! !Smiling, helpful staff - existence confirmed.Meatballs - existence confirmed. Quality could not be determined personally owing to long long long long long long long queue in restaurant, but apparent happiness of those already eating suggests that quality is more than acceptable to French palates.Hub taking Cam thingy? I do know how to use it, even tho I am just a girlie, but you're right, why have a dog and bark yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 Ooooohhh. What did you buy?I still haven't been to Nantes. OH is off work poorly (not) so I rather fancy him driving there but at this rate, I will have to go alone or it will be next year. Anyway, stops him asking why I "need" stuff. Tush! Fellas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jc Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 17 years ago,I bought a bed,a settee and a cupboard at BUT ;they're all still good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piprob Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 What did we miss? IKEA in Toulouse was our first IKEA experience but, for the most part, it left us unmoved. Hergoodself entered into the spirit of the thing and asked for some curtains she had seen on display. However none could actually be found to sell her. Liked the restaurant though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted October 22, 2005 Author Share Posted October 22, 2005 Piprob, don't give up so easily! Try, try, and try again, you will succeed in falling under the IKEA spell. It left me unmoved too the first time I went to the Marseille one, but now that I'm more used to dull French interior decor, it just seems hugely exciting! All those colours! No brown! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 We went on Thursday and I was gutted to only spend 36.25€.That was only on Christmas baubles.....I think I must have bought everything I "need". Sad, sad day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janey Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Exactly whereabouts is the Montpellier one, coming from Nimes direction? Make it simple please, only been there twice, first time in the dark and got lost..not a happy event and second time was with SB and she was drivingLooking for a coffee table and after seeing the price of them yesterday in Nimes...Ikea it is!Thankyou, Janey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Saligo you have been en provence toooooooo long, brown is now very fashionable and has been for at least 18 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted October 23, 2005 Author Share Posted October 23, 2005 I'm sorry, TU, I'll have to take the risk of not being fashionable. For once in my life. Janey, tell me when you want to go, and I'll drive you again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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