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With 28 floors dedicated to furniture, you have a good chance of finding what you want. Jane Pritchard is a fan of the plaza for the variety it offers, but says the prices can be on the steep side. "I like that everything is under one roof. And it's good for families. You can take the kids along because there is so much space and there are toy stores," she said. The sheer size and scale of the complex can be a little overwhelming. Pritchard suggests getting a directory on the ground floor and then taking the lift to the eco-furniture store Tree on the 28th floor, which has its own cafe. "I love the stuff in Tree. It's beautiful and simple, but it's so expensive. We go to Tree and look at what we want and then debate it for six months. There's a sofa there that we're going to go back and get. And the café is great," Pritchard said. By starting at the top on the 28th floor, it is easy to work your way down to the shops on the lower floors. Pritchard always stops in at Indigo and Tequila Kola, which have discounted outlet shops and designer showrooms in the building.
Briton Mally Foster's quest for the perfect sofa took her to Horizon Plaza, but she could not find anything suitable within her budget. "We were looking for a sofa that looked nice and wasn't too expensive. We saw a lovely suede one that was about HK$20,000, but we've got a baby and a two-year-old so that wouldn't work, though I'd have got it if I was a millionaire and I didn't have kids spilling juice," Foster said. A tip from a friend led her to Di-mension, a Hong Kong-based online furniture store with a small showroom in Tai Koo. "We went to the showroom, and the owner Darren said he had a sofa on offer at the moment and we could choose the filling and the colour,' said Foster. "They made it to order in a couple of weeks. We're very pleased with it and keep getting good comments about it." As Di-mension is located in a fairly nondescript industrial building, away from the main commercial areas, it pays lower rents than the shops in Horizon Plaza and is therefore able to offer much more affordable prices.
Di-mension was not Foster's first foray into custom-made furniture. She and her husband heard about the furniture showrooms in Zhuhai and made an appointment to visit one through Art Treasures Gallery on Hollywood Road. At the gallery's 70,000 sq ft mainland warehouse, the couple bought an antique cabinet for HK$7,000 and two small chests. Even though Foster never considered Ikea for their key furniture pieces, she did visit Ikea for a Poang chair when she was pregnant. "The chair bounces a bit and is quite comfortable, so it's renowned for breast-feeding mothers," she said. "Ikea is good for some things; you've just got to be targeted."The store has too many on the map. Please see an enlarged map. August 26, 2009 Subscribe Beijing loves IKEA - but not for shopping. "Every weekend, thousands of looky-loos pour into the massive showroom to use the displays. Some hop into bed, slide under the covers and sneak a nap; others bring cameras and pose with the decor.
Families while away the afternoon in the store for no other reason than to enjoy the air conditioning."The doors have just opened at an Ikea furniture store in east Beijing. Even on a weekday morning, this store is packed. In just a few minutes, customers spread out across every corner of the four-storey sales area. It's clear that most know the store well. "This is a store of the people," smiles Tana, a 53-year-old university professor clutching a desk lamp in Ikea's lighting section. "They have all the things ordinary people use. Every time I come here, I stay for the whole day and have lunch here."In China, Ikea isn't just a home furnishing depot - a place to buy what you need and leave. Many here treat it like a furniture-filled theme park, a place to spend hours taking every product for a spin. "It takes me five or six hours to drive here and I'll stay for at least eight hours," explains Mr Han, a young man who drove here from Handan, a city in neighbouring Hebei province. But the slog is worth it, he says.
"I like how they give us the real experience of using their products." There is no other store in China quite like Ikea, where customers are welcome to spend hours lounging on every sofa and bed in the store, or thoroughly testing the toys available in the children's section. Ikea has its imitators in China. One furniture chain in Kunming, southern China, called 11 Furniture, has copied Ikea's sales model, from its blue tarp shopping bags to the Swedish-sounding names on its furniture information tags. But 11 Furniture's scale doesn't compare to Ikea. The majority of Chinese stores simply don't have the floor space to allow their customers to thoroughly test out their wares. It's also common for sales assistants in many Chinese furniture stores to earn part of their salaries on commission, making it difficult for them to adopt Ikea's wait-and-see attitude towards future sales. Instead, Ikea has the space, and the capital to allow it to relax its policy on almost everything. This laissez-faire attitude has helped to make this store busy from morning until night.
At noon, the store's 700-seat cafeteria is full of customers eating Swedish meatballs, and Chinese cold spicy chicken. After that, many find a quiet part of the store to relax. The sofa section is a particular favourite. People lounge on the furniture, some carrying out heartfelt conversations. Others zone out with their mobile phones.In the bed section, one exhausted-looking mother paces with her young baby, trying to calm him before placing him for a nap on a display bedroom. She walks past customers who are tucked up in other beds, their shoes neatly lined up on the floor beside them. Ikea's first stores in China couldn't accommodate all-day shoppers. But if they build huge stores, Ikea has now realised, the crowds will come. Forty-five million visitors passed through Ikea's China locations last year. Eight of the ten biggest Ikea's in the world are now located in China. The super-sized outlets have extra-wide aisles, extra room displays and larger warehouses that help keep the store stocked with cash and carry items popular with first-time visitors.
Chinese Ikea outlets have 40% more customer traffic than in other countries, explains Ikea China's retail manager, Angela Zhu. "This store, about 15,000 visitors on a weekday and on a weekend, 25,000 visitors to 30,000 visitors," she smiles.Those who worry that Chinese shoppers are following their Western counterparts towards a lifestyle of consumerism may cringe, but Ikea is an interesting example of a Western store that has adapted to its Chinese environment. Products have also been redesigned with Chinese customers in mind - little things, like deepening bowls so they can hold rice. Every store in China features mock-ups of the tiny apartments common in many Chinese cities, kitted out with Ikea products.Crucially, prices were slashed by an average of 50% across the store, often by moving production inside China. "When we came to market, we realised that our prices had been too expensive," explains Angela Zhu. "It took years for us to continuously reduce our retail prices, to really let many people afford them."