[Brighton] Ikea buy Churchill Square and will open City store in old Debenhams

[jessiejames]

Travelling up and down the M1, I always looked out for the 'Eddies'. One was called Jenny Wren, and a Wren who was dying of breast cancer, had it on her bucket list to drive it. The lorry went down to Devonport, and she got a chance to drive it within the port for 100 yards. It's a shame the names have gone now.

Eddie Stobart lorry named after former Plymouth Naval petty officer

Gill Chapman is currently receiving treatment for cancer and has created a bucket list including a ride in a Stobart truck

www.plymouthherald.co.uk

There was a 4 year waiting list to have a name you wanted on the vehicles at a cost of £500.

Long service rewards for drivers was they can name the new lorry.

 

[The Clamp]

I worked for Virgin Megastores from 1999-2003 but at the Crawley store, but I did come and do a couple of shifts in the Brighton store (can't remember why).

Be grateful it was orange juice, several times we had sewage overflowing out of our staff toilets at County Mall due to blocked pipes.

It was likely because we sacked a load of people just before Christmas for using our postal order system to send CD’s and DVD’s to themselves

 

[jcdenton08]

Told by a mate planning to open late September, and they’re on schedule. So excited

 

[Hamilton]

Told by a mate planning to open late September, and they’re on schedule. So excited

I mean, there I some things that excite me and some that I'm merely interested in. The opening of an IKEA is not on my 'excited' list. But each to their own.

 

[jcdenton08]

I mean, there I some things that excite me and some that I'm merely interested in. The opening of an IKEA is not on my 'excited' list. But each to their own.

Fair enough!

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

I have never been in an IKEA store. Now there is one in my home town, I probably still wont go in an IKEA store.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I have never been in an IKEA store. Now there is one in my home town, I probably still wont go in an IKEA store.

Then you will forever be missing out on these Bad Boys.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Told by a mate planning to open late September, and they’re on schedule. So excited

We're loose.

 

[jcdenton08]

Then you will forever be missing out on these Bad Boys.

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They really are superb.

 

[Insel affe]

Then you will forever be missing out on these Bad Boys.

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Don't.......

We made a trip to the Croydon Ikea shortly after we moved to Brighton to buy furniture etc, I had never been before and was somewhat reluctant as it was on my Birthday. My wife informed me that Ikea offer a free Swedish meatball meal on your birthday, so off we went. I ordered the meatballs and queued up on reaching the register I duly showed them my driving licence to prove it was my birthday to a bemused member of staff, I look back at my wife who was rolling around on the floor in fits of laughter, from that day forward I have never trusted her again.

 

[BNthree]

I mean, there I some things that excite me and some that I'm merely interested in. The opening of an IKEA is not on my 'excited' list. But each to their own.

Thanks for taking the time to share that with us.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Then you will forever be missing out on these Bad Boys.

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The Cinnamon buns are BETTER.

 

[Flounce]

I have never been in an IKEA store. Now there is one in my home town, I probably still wont go in an IKEA store.

I have and it seems you have to walk through the whole store to get out? I ended up in the baby department at one stage with pregnant women all standing and sitting around stroking their stomachs, it was a bit strange as I had gone in with my wife to collect bunk beds and didn’t expect to end up in a maternity unit. No desire at all to go back to Ikea, but you can’t knock how well they’ve done and how so many people seem to bloody love the place.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

I'm not a big Ikea person. But I'm hopeful that this will be massive for my city. Lots of people in and lots of those empty units around Western Road and Churchill Square filled.

I'm glad it's on schedule

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I have and it seems you have to walk through the whole store to get out? I ended up in the baby department at one stage with pregnant women all standing and sitting around stroking their stomachs, it was a bit strange as I had gone in with my wife to collect bunk beds and didn’t expect to end up in a maternity unit. No desire at all to go back to Ikea, but you can’t knock how well they’ve done and how so many people seem to bloody love the place.

You didn't pick up the leaflet as you entered. There is a map, where you can go through doors to avoid complete sections.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Never stepped foot in IKEA (who needs it when you've got Furniture Now?) but mein gott do the Scandinavians, specifically Sverige and Norge, do global brands so prolifically.

 

[Hamilton]

Thanks for taking the time to share that with us.

It's a pleasure. If there is anything else I can help with, just ask.

 

[Trufflehound]

Then you will forever be missing out on these Bad Boys.

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That's a load of balls...

 

[birthofanorange]

My other half is Swedish and her balls are fabulous. (Or is she Thai... )

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Happy belated Easter everybody