IKEA shoppers get lay of the land -- and the language -- at grand opening in Oak Creek
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Opening day at IKEA Oak Creek
OAK CREEK -- It was a day that was months in the making and plenty of people were up early to be there when IKEA opened Wednesday morning, May 16 in Oak Creek -- the first IKEA store in Wisconsin!
Many shoppers have been to the Schaumburg IKEA store in Illinois, but first-time visitors to IKEA -- like FOX6's Jonathon Gregg -- needed a little extra help getting the lay of the land and the language.
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Opening day at IKEA Oak Creek
Traffic made getting to IKEA a little tricky, but it didn't bother the Lopez family from Kenosha.
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"So glad they opened one here in Oak Creek," said Salvador Lopez.
They are from Kenosha, and said they love that there's now a closer location.
For newbies, it might be difficult to navigate the Swedish language. With 10,000 unique IKEA products -- all with Swedish names -- that's a lot to chew on!
It's a good thing customers had help from Liza Ekstrand -- a New Berlin resident and Swedish original. Ektrand belongs to the Swedish-American Historical Society in Milwaukee. She introduced her neighbors to the Swedish furniture store Wednesday.
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Opening day at IKEA Oak Creek
At the end of the day, the one Swedish word Jonathon Gregg was able to hold onto was the shortest -- "tax," Swedish for dachshund.
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Opening day at IKEA Oak Creek