New IKEA store in Massachusetts

Last Saturday night Dave and I ventured out to the town of Stoughton, MA to check out the opening of the 1st IKEA store in MA. It was a 61 mile ride there, but we wanted to see what this place was all about. For those of you who have never heard of this place, they sell home furnishings that are swedish-made.

Well before going in, we had to deal with some major traffic, and on a Saturday night I may add. It was pretty ridiculous! We tried to get off the exit from the highway we were on, and it's blocked by cops, and we were thinking, "Is this for all the traffic to the new IKEA?" We made to the next exit and the sign says detour to IKEA, well that is interesting. Once we finally got off the right exit, we saw a lot of cars lined up on the main road thinking there is a traffic light coming up and there are probably just a lot of cars at that moment. Well we were wrong, they were all trying to go the same way as us, to the IKEA which there is a sign pointing to the new IKEA. Oy vey!

I have never seen so much traffic before, and practically no one was moving. After a few minutes of slow-movement, we decided to forget parking in their lot and find a spot in a different store parking lot, and just walk the rest of the way, which worked out better and we found many other people doing the same.
Now that we finally got there, we looked around to see what this store is all about. On the 2nd floor there is a showroom and if you want something, you grab one of their checklists and you write down the item # of the product you want, and then you pick the item/s up in what I would call their warehouse. On the first floor there is general merchandide and those items you can grab and add to your carriage/tote bag. What was neat about the place, is they have a small sit-down restaurant there too.

After 2 hours of walking around, we never bought anything. It was nice to check it the place, but we thought the stuff was just "eh". I took a liking to some of the picture frames they had, and maybe some of the couches, but that was about it. Going to a place like Crate and Barrel, etc... seems like a better options for us. They have great stuff there, even though it is much more expensive.

If anyone is interested in what this place sells, check out their site.