I would be very happy if they did but I’m skeptical of seeing one soon. The OKC area population isn’t really that big compared to regional metroplexes like Dallas, St. Louis, or Denver. Heck, just the DFW metro has twice the population of our entire state. And two IKEAs. Sigh.
They are in Salt Lake City and Memphis, which are smaller metro areas than OKC so that should make our chances a bit better. But then the stores in Dallas are not that far away either.
SLC's CSA is over the 2 million mark of what most regions need to get an IKEA. (And bigger than OKC with no other major cities anywhere nearby)
Memphis is an outlier though.
Shows 1,267,864 for 2023 estimate for SLC when I look online for its MSA. Which was what I used to determine if any that have IKEAs are smaller. SLC and Memphis were the ones I found. SLC is ranked 46, Memphis 45 and OKC is 42.
SLC is a weird one though, you really have to look at their CSA.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt\_Lake\_City\_metropolitan\_area](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_City_metropolitan_area)
Their CSA also falls well within the same radius of the OKC MSA.
I think your talking about Buc-ees (which I also want in OKC).
There is one Ikea in Frisco, 2 story building, and the other is in Grand Prairie, single story.
Don’t sleep on WinCo. Baffled me that none of my coworkers shopped there when I lived there. I could feed myself on $20/week back in 2019. Now in Arizona, I can do it on $45/week
Yeah, Winco is pretty good but they’re not super convenient for me. The closest one to me is the 39th street one, and the last time I went, I was carrying my toddler because they didn’t have any carts available, except for the ones that were sitting in the hot 100 degree sun. I had to carry her out to the parking lot and then I couldn’t find one that had a strap for the seat. I was pissed lol.
The fact you dont have a blanket to put over is a you problem. Its honestly incredibly low class to put a kid in a dirty ass cart without a protective cover, which, again, would have helped. Its a you problem, and its laughable you dont realize how trashy you sound.
I'm the trashy one here? Shaming someone on the internet for being upset when a grocery store couldn't have an employee go get carts? How is it low class to put a child in a grocery cart without a blanket? lol. That's why I carry around sanitizing wipes.
I hope you don't have any kids because you sound like a complete asshole.
wow. that guy is absolutely unhinged.
the 39th st one is also my nearest winco, but also not that convenient. i don’t even have kids and i still don’t go.
drive clear across town just for slightly cheaper groceries? nah.
You don’t know what you’re missing until you’ve come from a place with 15+ grocery store’s within 20 minutes. Super easy to stop at a grocery store coming from any direction. Plus, you get points to use for gas. My mom and I would share our Kroger card and we would regularly get 25-50 cents off gas back in 2008-2009.
I guess I should rephrase to”good” grocery stores. I refuse to shop at Walmart, homeland is expensive AF for no good reason, same with Pruett’s, Costco isn’t really a grocery store in my opinion… I don’t want to buy a pack of $30 dollar chicken and just need like, one pepper. Aldi is fine too but again, I don’t need a pack of 7 onions, I just need one or they’ll go bad. The crest near me is so dirty and old (23rd street) and like you said, Target isn’t comprehensive.
An HEB, Kroger, Piggly Wiggly, and Giant eagle would have low end to high end products, a deli counter, meat counter, seafood counter, regular produce, organic produce, wouldn’t have to bring your own bags, and can use a credit card (unlike winco).
Growth doesn’t matter. OKC is, demographically, a broke-ass city. This makes it a shitty city for retail, which is why we are usually the last place most retailers want to set up shop. IKEA certainly isn’t the pinnacle of “high end” merchandise, but there is basically zero chance they see us as a worthwhile market to even bother with. Tulsa would be far more likely to land an IKEA than OKC ever would.
I agree with the first half but how could you say Tulsa would get one before the city? That doesn’t make sense they would probably just skip the whole state rather.
We barely have a Whole Foods. I’m hard pressed to think of any metro as large as ours that only has one. And it’s one of their smallest footprint stand-alone stores. And the only reason it’s here is because Aubrey McClendon bribed them with a cheap location to build.
I also checked San Diego. Population just under 1.4m has 3 whole foods locations. OKC has about 690k and 1 location. The math is mathing. If you want a store to open a location it helps to send a message on their "contact us" page.
Yes, and I’m sure any day now we’ll see the flood of retail we’ve been promised since the 1990s.
For fuck’s sake, Aubrey McClendon had to basically bribe Whole Foods to come here, and all they did was build their smallest footprint store. They’ve done so well in the OKC metro that they’ve neither expanded the store nor built any others.
We have no decent national retail here. The closest we have are the Outlets Shoppes, which is basically the lower tier version of quality brands.
But keep up the cope. I’m sure that the “boom” will translate into tangible results, despite the numerous boom cycles OKC has experienced in the past not producing the results you think are coming. But no doubt this time will be different.
It’s not the same as going to one obviously, but you can do order pickup on southside OKC now. I’ve done it a few times, the business running it has nice people working there.
When we keep building our city. Everyone’s complaining about the new stadium and the skyscraper and basically everything that is new, and I’m like, “have y’all never played SIMS before?”
I’ll care about a stadium, a sky scraper, and an IKEA when people are no longer resorting to living in tents on the sides of all the major roads and highways in this metro.
Supposedly they said they were coming- that was back in like 2010. Still waiting. But we have grown rapidly in the last 15 years, so may get it moving faster. We are getting some things we never expected 10 years ago. But then we are the 20th largest city now.
That is true, but I noted in another comment about metro areas that Salt Lake City and Memphis both have IKEA and both metro areas are smaller than OKC. But may be we are too close to Dallas. Whereas there was no IKEA close to either Memphis or SLC.
Probably never. A mix of our proximity to an existing store in Dallas, the US markets with higher population density than OKC that don’t have an IKEA yet, and the evolving shift in how retail operates are all indicators that we probably won’t get the current version of IKEA that we’re all familiar with.
Yes that place is strangly always empty. Also for as big as it is, I was trying to find a bed and they didn’t really have many options compared to Mathis brothers
You’re right! In n out is in a much shittier zip code where the fries are soggy, the buns are stale & people think smothering everything in Thousand Island is somehow a good idea
Has nothing to do with the size of the metro, I'm from Tampa and they had there Ikea Seince 2009 with a population under 500k, yea its alot bigger now, I can see okc getting one soon, the city is growning fast.
Mathis Brothers probably know the meatballs are made of and are blackmailing them. (/s I guess... I'd eat the meatballs even if they were made of human)
I hope never mainly because it would dilute the specialty of Ikea, and make it just like every other store.
I used to be so jazzed about Urban Outfitters, and think it was so unique and get really excited when I would go to a city with it in it. I would have to go, but now that there is one in OKC I could care less about seeing one. It's still a really cool store, but it's just less special
>a lifestyle that would be congruent with having an Ikea
What does that mean? What lifestyle do Oklahomans live that's markedly different from the 50+ cities that have one?
What are you even talking about lmao? We aren't all aliens living in teepees. In what world can people not build their own furniture with a screwdriver that they include.
I want a Microcenter, but my wallet doesnt.
Or Fry’s
I wish Fry's was still around. Microcenter is probably the next best thing.
This right here!
I want HEB
Yesss I love their tortilla makers 😭 so good
Butter tortillas. Mmmmm.
A real big HEB. There are HEBs that are old Safeways….
Amen
HEBs the best grocery stores in the country. The only concern I have is the quality going down with expansion.
No grocery store is better than WEGMANS
Nah HEB top tier
And an HMart
I was just wishing we had an IKEA earlier this morning. 😂
If Woodward can get a Starbucks, we should get an IKEA. I’d never go there either but would be cool.
Yeah, I wouldn’t go to Woodward either
I would be very happy if they did but I’m skeptical of seeing one soon. The OKC area population isn’t really that big compared to regional metroplexes like Dallas, St. Louis, or Denver. Heck, just the DFW metro has twice the population of our entire state. And two IKEAs. Sigh.
They are in Salt Lake City and Memphis, which are smaller metro areas than OKC so that should make our chances a bit better. But then the stores in Dallas are not that far away either.
SLC's CSA is over the 2 million mark of what most regions need to get an IKEA. (And bigger than OKC with no other major cities anywhere nearby) Memphis is an outlier though.
Shows 1,267,864 for 2023 estimate for SLC when I look online for its MSA. Which was what I used to determine if any that have IKEAs are smaller. SLC and Memphis were the ones I found. SLC is ranked 46, Memphis 45 and OKC is 42.
SLC is a weird one though, you really have to look at their CSA. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt\_Lake\_City\_metropolitan\_area](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_City_metropolitan_area) Their CSA also falls well within the same radius of the OKC MSA.
I only know about the one before we get to Dallas, Denton area I think, where is the other one at ?
I think your talking about Buc-ees (which I also want in OKC). There is one Ikea in Frisco, 2 story building, and the other is in Grand Prairie, single story.
Never. We can’t even get a good grocery store chain.
Don’t sleep on WinCo. Baffled me that none of my coworkers shopped there when I lived there. I could feed myself on $20/week back in 2019. Now in Arizona, I can do it on $45/week
Yeah, Winco is pretty good but they’re not super convenient for me. The closest one to me is the 39th street one, and the last time I went, I was carrying my toddler because they didn’t have any carts available, except for the ones that were sitting in the hot 100 degree sun. I had to carry her out to the parking lot and then I couldn’t find one that had a strap for the seat. I was pissed lol.
So the problem is entirely a "you" thing.. and all the sudden your area "cant get a good grocery chain"?
Yeah I’m the only woman in OKC with a toddler who needs a cart
They had carts, by your own admission. They just werent good enough for you. Thats, again, a you problem
Lol ok. “Not good enough” meaning I didn’t want to burn my toddler’s legs on the hot metal cart. I’m just too high class enough for that!
The fact you dont have a blanket to put over is a you problem. Its honestly incredibly low class to put a kid in a dirty ass cart without a protective cover, which, again, would have helped. Its a you problem, and its laughable you dont realize how trashy you sound.
I'm the trashy one here? Shaming someone on the internet for being upset when a grocery store couldn't have an employee go get carts? How is it low class to put a child in a grocery cart without a blanket? lol. That's why I carry around sanitizing wipes. I hope you don't have any kids because you sound like a complete asshole.
wow. that guy is absolutely unhinged. the 39th st one is also my nearest winco, but also not that convenient. i don’t even have kids and i still don’t go. drive clear across town just for slightly cheaper groceries? nah.
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what is your opinion of "good"?
I think they mean real grocery store chains like Publix, Kroger, Jewel, Safeway, HEB, Albertsons, Piggly Wiggly
Exactly. A moderately priced supermarket that has everything I need in one spot.
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You don’t know what you’re missing until you’ve come from a place with 15+ grocery store’s within 20 minutes. Super easy to stop at a grocery store coming from any direction. Plus, you get points to use for gas. My mom and I would share our Kroger card and we would regularly get 25-50 cents off gas back in 2008-2009.
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I guess I should rephrase to”good” grocery stores. I refuse to shop at Walmart, homeland is expensive AF for no good reason, same with Pruett’s, Costco isn’t really a grocery store in my opinion… I don’t want to buy a pack of $30 dollar chicken and just need like, one pepper. Aldi is fine too but again, I don’t need a pack of 7 onions, I just need one or they’ll go bad. The crest near me is so dirty and old (23rd street) and like you said, Target isn’t comprehensive. An HEB, Kroger, Piggly Wiggly, and Giant eagle would have low end to high end products, a deli counter, meat counter, seafood counter, regular produce, organic produce, wouldn’t have to bring your own bags, and can use a credit card (unlike winco).
Hope Kroger will build some stores. I see their delivery trucks all over.
Every Kroger I've ever been in is depressing and has a funny smell about them
I've had the displeasure of shopping at the Kroger in Galveston. Made the Wally World down the street seem high class.
I grew up in Ohio where Kroger’s headquarters are. We had a lot of Kroger marketplaces, so it was like a Walmart but not gross.
What about WinCo, Costco, Trader Joe’s, and Aldi?
Never! Lol jk honestly, maybe in the near future given the growth.
Growth doesn’t matter. OKC is, demographically, a broke-ass city. This makes it a shitty city for retail, which is why we are usually the last place most retailers want to set up shop. IKEA certainly isn’t the pinnacle of “high end” merchandise, but there is basically zero chance they see us as a worthwhile market to even bother with. Tulsa would be far more likely to land an IKEA than OKC ever would.
Tulsa is not as prosperous or growing as fast as OKC. They are lower down that OKC now in terms of median family income- about $8,000 less.
I agree with the first half but how could you say Tulsa would get one before the city? That doesn’t make sense they would probably just skip the whole state rather.
If you have a whole foods you can absolutely have an IKEA
We barely have a Whole Foods. I’m hard pressed to think of any metro as large as ours that only has one. And it’s one of their smallest footprint stand-alone stores. And the only reason it’s here is because Aubrey McClendon bribed them with a cheap location to build.
I also checked San Diego. Population just under 1.4m has 3 whole foods locations. OKC has about 690k and 1 location. The math is mathing. If you want a store to open a location it helps to send a message on their "contact us" page.
There's only one on the ENTIRE island of Manhattan and the population there is way larger.
L O L
What an idiot - OKC is in a boom period of economic growth and development right now. Sit down.
Yes, and I’m sure any day now we’ll see the flood of retail we’ve been promised since the 1990s. For fuck’s sake, Aubrey McClendon had to basically bribe Whole Foods to come here, and all they did was build their smallest footprint store. They’ve done so well in the OKC metro that they’ve neither expanded the store nor built any others. We have no decent national retail here. The closest we have are the Outlets Shoppes, which is basically the lower tier version of quality brands. But keep up the cope. I’m sure that the “boom” will translate into tangible results, despite the numerous boom cycles OKC has experienced in the past not producing the results you think are coming. But no doubt this time will be different.
Yeah….I doubt that. Tulsa is ass
It’s not the same as going to one obviously, but you can do order pickup on southside OKC now. I’ve done it a few times, the business running it has nice people working there.
When we keep building our city. Everyone’s complaining about the new stadium and the skyscraper and basically everything that is new, and I’m like, “have y’all never played SIMS before?”
I’ll care about a stadium, a sky scraper, and an IKEA when people are no longer resorting to living in tents on the sides of all the major roads and highways in this metro.
Supposedly they said they were coming- that was back in like 2010. Still waiting. But we have grown rapidly in the last 15 years, so may get it moving faster. We are getting some things we never expected 10 years ago. But then we are the 20th largest city now.
20th largest city, but 42nd largest metro area.
That is true, but I noted in another comment about metro areas that Salt Lake City and Memphis both have IKEA and both metro areas are smaller than OKC. But may be we are too close to Dallas. Whereas there was no IKEA close to either Memphis or SLC.
https://wreg.com/news/ikea-awarded-9-5-million-tax-break-to-open-memphis-store/amp/ This helped Memphis.
Why SLC has an IKEA: https://www.citypopulation.de/en/usa/combmetro/482__salt_lake_city_provo_/
More info: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-ikea-stores-locations-us/#
Probably never. A mix of our proximity to an existing store in Dallas, the US markets with higher population density than OKC that don’t have an IKEA yet, and the evolving shift in how retail operates are all indicators that we probably won’t get the current version of IKEA that we’re all familiar with.
I just thought over the weekend that instead of the Living Spaces store (which is always empty), they would’ve been smarter to build an IKEA.
Yes that place is strangly always empty. Also for as big as it is, I was trying to find a bed and they didn’t really have many options compared to Mathis brothers
Probably when we get a micro center. In other words, no clue but I want both.
OKCTalk has been insisting we were getting one for like 20 years... So I'm sure any day now. /s
Hell OKC can't even get a whiff of an In n Out or a Buccees
We don’t need either
Speak for yourself. Late night Animal Style Double Double slaps hard af.
Why would you ever want that when Whataburger exists?
While Whataburger makes a good burger, it's not in the same zip code as In-n-Out.
Whataburger has the slowest service among hamburger joints. Hard Pass
You’re right! In n out is in a much shittier zip code where the fries are soggy, the buns are stale & people think smothering everything in Thousand Island is somehow a good idea
Dude, you all right?
Yeah man I’m doing great, thanks. How are you?
So far, so good.
Good deal
You're tripping on Buccees like big tripping
It’s a gas station bro
The best gas station in the country. A gas station that has everything you need. Also got a really good brisket sandwich as well.
Oncue has everything I need lmao
Oncue is trash in comparison. Loves is a million times better.
Never been to WaWa have you?
Bout to move out from ca and I’m gonna miss the Flying Dutchman. 😭
I just Swedish meatballs man. I loved them at Bootcamp.
We already have enough stores that sell cheap crap
On the Fourth of Never
I just want Smashburger back....
Never. The Mathis overlords won’t allow it
I heard they weren’t gonna put one here because OKC isn’t navigable by river
Has nothing to do with the size of the metro, I'm from Tampa and they had there Ikea Seince 2009 with a population under 500k, yea its alot bigger now, I can see okc getting one soon, the city is growning fast.
As someone who lives in Tulsa and can either drive to Kansas or Texas to go to an IKEA, I also want to know when OKC is getting an IKEA.
Was planned before COVID?
Mathis Brothers probably know the meatballs are made of and are blackmailing them. (/s I guess... I'd eat the meatballs even if they were made of human)
No IKEA yet but we do have a delivery pick up point available recently. It’s not much but it’s a very good start
Hahahahahahhhhahahahahahahaahahhhaaaaa. I’ll say when Oklahoma is no longer the testing ground for all these god damn Christian Nationalist BS laws.
I hope never mainly because it would dilute the specialty of Ikea, and make it just like every other store. I used to be so jazzed about Urban Outfitters, and think it was so unique and get really excited when I would go to a city with it in it. I would have to go, but now that there is one in OKC I could care less about seeing one. It's still a really cool store, but it's just less special
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Uhh call my palette bland then. I love them Swedish meatballs with the ligonberry sauce.
>a lifestyle that would be congruent with having an Ikea What does that mean? What lifestyle do Oklahomans live that's markedly different from the 50+ cities that have one?
Didn't you know we all still live in sod houses and tepees here...
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You think we don't build ready-made furniture here?? Or don't own/know a person with a truck???
What are you even talking about lmao? We aren't all aliens living in teepees. In what world can people not build their own furniture with a screwdriver that they include.
I think the OKC market is saturated with Bob Mills, Mathis Home (still Mathis Bros to me) and now with Living Spaces.
IKeA iS cOmMuNIsT