from Retail Insider:
IKEA to open string of smaller stores across Canada
Outlets one-tenth the size of a regular Ikea will be primarily for e-commerce pickups
Swedish furniture giant Ikea plans to open up to 10 smaller stores across Canada within the year, Ikea Canada president Stefan Sjöstrand told Business in Vancouver December 9.
The locations would be similar in size to a standard London Drugs, at about 37,000 square feet, or a tenth the size of a full-size Ikea, but most of that space will be for storage.
Unlike a full-size Ikea, the new so-called “pickup” stores will have counters at which Ikea workers will retrieve items for customers who ordered online. Some of the company’s future pickup stores are likely to include small retail areas.
Ikea hasn’t released exact locations, but “the pickup stores will be on the West Coast and all over the country,” Sjöstrand said. “I hope that a year from now we will have five to 10 pickup points.”
Read more:
http://www.biv.com/article/2014/12/ikea-open-string-smaller-stores-across-canada/
Personal note - so, there may be hope for an IKEA store in Moncton after all, although realistically if IKEA were to locate one of these outlets in the east it would more likely be going to Halifax. It is interesting to note however that they are going to break ground in the spring for another new (unnamed) retailer in Mapleton Crossing. Hmmmmm - coincidence??? 
The proposed Building "G" in Mapleton Crossing is slightly over 40,000 sq ft. That's about the right size..... 
All wishful thinking of course. Halifax is far more likely.
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