only reason IKEA slipped in was that the greedy dominican store owners, (in bed with the politicians for years) didn't know what IKEA was. probably thought it was some swedish meatball custom cabinet shop that wouldn't make any waves or dent in profit. SURPRISE!!....had their name been sears, best buy, target you can bet your last nickel that the families running the major stores in this country would have paid the politicos enough money to create enough obstacles to stop their entry. now if we can get "best buy" to change their name to "used shoes" they might have a shot at slipping in. i'll bet there are a lot of angry rich people tonight and watch for IKEA to be shut down for alll sorts of "violations", smoke detectors, emergency exits, not enough parking, etc. it's going to cost some big stores in SD millions of dollars, good. talk about stealing, at least jesse james had a gun, not a politician keeping competition out................
now watch the other idiots build a "new" mall in SD, (happening now) that won't have a good "anchor " store, so that will be more millions in the toilet.
in a year ask someone from SD if they've been to IKEA, most will reply yes, then ask if they've ever been to malecon center, nope, and it's been there for at least five years....