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Published Date: 25 October 2006
THE furniture giant IKEA plans to compete with Edinburgh's Winter Festival by creating an ice rink in the car park of its Straiton store - a move dismissed by Hogmanay events boss Pete Irvine as "desperate".

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  • Last Updated: 25 October 2006 12:07 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: IKEA
 
1

Graeme F,

Edinburgh 25/10/2006 06:43:53

Nae offence to Straiton but I think I'd rather be ice-skating in the shadow of Edinburgh's Castle and Old Town than in the shadow of the City Bypass! Plenty to keep one amused in the aisles of Ikea anyway without them needing to add gimicks and reduce car parking space.

2

McMicrogal,

25/10/2006 07:43:21

Sounds like a fine idea to me, and I reckon we will go along and give it a whirl. I have been mugged *ahem* sorry, paid vast sums of money to skate for a ridiculously short length of time on appalling ice in the Winter Wonderland in the past and have no intention of ever repeating that experience. The idea of a Scandanavian style Christmas really appeals.

3

calum,

25/10/2006 08:02:56

Sounds like Pete Irvine and his dear pal Karen Coren are frightened of a little competition. Besides, IKEA is in Midlothian and they don't have the necessary "contacts" with that Council as they do in Edinburgh. Well done IKEA, something for the amusement of punters who visit the store from all over Scotland spending a whole day out in the process.

4

IanW,

25/10/2006 08:52:56

Quite a good idea to encourage the customers. Let the kids play on the ice while the parents shop. It would certainly relieve the stress levels which are often high around Christmas.

Here in Germany where I live there will be skating rinks in almost every local community for this very purpose, i.e. pleasure and stress relief.

5

Thomas the Tank,

Edinburgh 25/10/2006 12:34:42

I'd have to agree with Colin @3 - it sounds more like Pete Irvine who's 'desperate' that his (& Karen Coren's) nice cosy, mutual backscratching 'arrangement' (scope for some robust investigative journalism?) with certain Edinburgh cooncillors and others is under threat from an organisation that neither he or his influential pals in Edinburgh can do anything about. By the way, when ARE they going to repair the grass from last year?
While the Rink in the Gardens might win it on a historic setting, Straiton has far better road access and neither Ikea nor Midlothian Council have the paranoid hatred - or rip-off tendencies - towards 'motorists' shown by Edinburgh. And what's wrong with a view over the Pentlands while the family enjoys a Hot Dog and an ice cream without neding a bank loan?

6

bluedog1257,

perthshire 25/10/2006 18:57:37

Given that folk seem to treat Ikea as a giant theme park - somewhere to take the kids on a wet Sunday, a skating rink sounds a great idea.

Given the reduction in car park space though, they had better watch out for an increase in car park rage. Last time I was there I have never seen so many angry people in one place. Car horns going, folk shouting and the rain coming down in stair-rods.


 

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