Ah,Brooklyn …
you have everything a girl needs.
You even have a Macy’s.
But this Brooklyn Macy’s doesn’t quite stack up next to the mega one on 34th street in Manhattan.
It’s sole advantage is that it is in Brooklyn.
I live in Brooklyn and like a lot of Brooklyn-ites-I tend to want to shop nearer to my home.
Brooklyn shopping will invariably lead a shopper to Redhook.
This means I have to take the B61 bus ,shop,turn around and lug whatever it is I’ve purchased back onto the same bus and carry it home.Yeah yeah, we all have to do this,we being the carless.
Redhook now has a massive grocery store called Fairway.I heard it will soon have an Ikea and that means I will be there almost once a week. Some people look down on Ikea, they think it’s cheap(meaning products are shabby and flimsy) .
I love Ikea because it is cheap.I really don’t see the value in buying something that will fall apart in a few months,though. I know for a fact that the goods Ikea provide aren’t that kind of cheap,however. They are sturdy and longlasting and lowpriced.
Take for instance the store West Elm: their stuff looks a heck of a lot like Ikea’s stuff–and so does Crate and Barrel’s .The difference is that it all costs more and isn’t Ikea!
That’s all the difference I’ve been able to discern so far.
The fault of Ikea being seen as cheap lies with snobby people dismissing a store because it started out in the USA catering to poorer people or bargain lovers or to college kids.
I’m pretty sure Ikea isn’t still promoting itself the same way it was 10 years ago but you know snobs, they have long memories.
I was just in Crate and Barrel and noticed they too name their products. You know that Ikea does this,right? A side table is a Joorgen or something like that.A drinking glass is a Duka( I am making up these names) and etc.
C&B doesn’t seem to name everything like Ikea names everything but it names almost everything…but a peppermill will go off as simply a peppermill instead of a Willem.
Ok.