The pre-opening hype would be hard to deny. Just ask the people who spent two nights camping out to be among the first to enter the new Merriam IKEA on opening day. So what is the IKEA story, and how do we expect the global furniture retailer to affect the local economy?
Guests:
- Joyce Smith, reporter, The Kansas City Star
- Steve Vockrodt, reporter, The Pitch
- Ellen Ruppel Shell, journalist, The Atlantic and author, Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
