...and we headed over to check it out. It's our fifth IKEA location so we're now making comparisons. This IKEA has a more colorful look than we've seen before and a lot of Latino is spoken over the intercom. The store map comes in a Latino version. We don't see the blonde Scandinavians of the Minneapolis IKEA or the luxuries of resting spots offered at Chicago's IKEA. Tampa's customer seating is all about eating. Seattle's IKEA (one of the oldest in the USA) has a waterfront location and a rag-tag look. Sweden's first IKEA ever looks like an old warehouse but has a wonderful presentation of Swedish fabrics...no dining there...plenty of that across the street at IKEA headquarters.
We arrived at Tampa's IKEA in time for $1.99 breakfasts and stayed long enough to lunch on salads around 2 p.m. The store felt a bit like DisneyWorld--a talking toucan (the voice came from behind a pile of quilts where a funny guy operated the puppet and conversed with customers), Pippi Longstocking (bouncing around on chairs), and a guy doing magic card tricks--all probably hired for opening week. The parking lot was chaos with a flag-waver directing traffic every 100 feet.
We spent only $127.
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Did you get it assembled yet?
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