Any updates? Lol wishful thinking
No, and I think we can give up on them coming here for the foreseeable future.
I recently went to their location in Frisco and had forgotten how much I don't like their stuff. I used to shop there a lot when I first moved to California but you can buy much better quality for less elsewhere, especially with the rise of online stores like Wayfair. Target actually has some decent things, particularly online.
And of course, you can buy almost everything at IKEA online.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...s/11688192002/
Maybe it’s time for OKC?
It's time they put one here. OKC and Nashville are the two largest cities in the US without one. Nashville had one planned before IKEA brought the axe to it back in 2018.
One is coming
To Tulsa
I would love for one to come to OKC, but depending on how IKEA enters markets, the location in Frisco doesn't help. If you go there on a weekend a 25-40% the parking lot is Oklahoma plates.
Tulsa would pull from OKC, Northwest Arkansas and maybe even Joplin/Springfield or Wichita.
Okc pulls Tulsa, Wichita, Amarillo. And, it’s own population is by far the biggest of those.
I don’t think Tulsa will get it. IKEA would select NWA before Tulsa.
OKC + Tulsa + Wichita + Amarillo + Ft Smith has 3.8 million people
Tulsa + OKC + Wichita + NWA + Joplin + Ft Smith has 4.4 million people
That said, I think OKC gets IKEA first.
Irrelevant given Nashville doesn’t have one but yes I’d agree OKC gets one first and I’d be surprised if Tulsa gets one but TBH they should. It would do well.
If OKC gets a full store, they may do a "Plan & Order" store in NWA, kinda split the difference here.
The OKC area of dominant influence is the 45th largest in the US and Tulsa's is 59th. And, it's own MSA is about 40% larger than Tulsa's. And, it is growing faster. Tulsa median household income is appx $7,000 less than OKC. By all objective measures, OKC is the dominant economic area.
OKC is closer to the IKEA distribution center in Houston. They might even open up another distribution center in N Texas to serve all 4 area locations.
Good question. I don't know.
So I looked it up.
Oklahoma City's population within a 150 mile radius is 4,243,414 with a growth rate of +5.9%
Tulsa's population within a 150 mile radius is 5,675,178 with a growth rate of +6.6%
And for IKEA purposes a good portion of OKC's 150 mile radius is in north Texas and closer to Frisco than OKC.
OKC's population within 150 miles excluding the part of the radius in Texas is 3,833,739
At a 25 mile radius OKC has 1,459,380 people to Tulsa's 1,034,123. That's an easy choice for OKC, but not the 150 mile radius. It will come down to what is more important to IKEA, the immediate area or the larger regional area.
https://www.statsamerica.org/radius/big.aspx
I still say it's probably Oklahoma City, but I can certainly see them in Tulsa. I will guess that one of the cities gets a location this time and the other gets a smaller order point location.
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