Watch Out Now: IKEA is Coming

Bostonist knows that elsewhere in the country, IKEA is just another store where you can buy home furnishings in a really big warehouse. Yet when the state of Massachusetts doesn’t even have one of these mammoth retailers, it is big news that one is slated to open this fall in Stoughton. The Swedish corporation recently opened a store in New Haven, CT, and has finally broken into the Massachusetts market with a 346,000 square-foot store to open on Route 24. (Work has also begun on a Somerville store in Assembly Square Mall after years of negotiations.) Some may remember the broken promises of opening stores in years past, when all plans were ultimately abandoned for one reason or another. IKEA is looking to hire 500 employees for its new store and is holding interviews on August 13 in Braintree. Bostonist doesn’t assume you have to know much about Swedish retail, but it might help if you can work a screwdriver. (If you have ever purchased any of the IKEA furniture, you, along with Bostonist, know that the low price=assembly required.)