Why hire Tekbuild for planning assistance?

Shopping IKEA for your new kitchen can be productive and rewarding, but often times it can be very frustrating and seem impossible to accomplish your task at hand. The IKEA shopping experience is structured around the customer being self sufficient, knowledgeable and ready to work. There are computers around so you can do your own planning and carts in the warehouse so you can pull your own products. Similar to fast food restaurants giving you a cup and sending you on your merry way to fill your own beverages, only on a much bigger and complicated scale. It is not geared towards in depth, 1 on 1 consulting. It is all about volume sales and low prices.

I’ve seen numerous people walk away from the kitchen department or the BESTA wall unit area with looks of dismay. It is just impossible for a retail store to staff for absolute, dedicated 1 on 1 consulting for any length of time . IKEA employees have to juggle the many customers and their needs all at once. If you have ever shopped on a weekend, you know what I’m saying.

It is part of Kitchen Co-worker's job responsibilities to encourage and steer you to help yourself and use the computers to plan your own kitchen. Here are a couple quotes from an IKEA help wanted ad from July 09 posted on Career Builder.

" The IKEA sales concept is based on self-choice and self-service. These sales concepts are an important part of delivering low prices. However, people shopping for an entire kitchen often require extra services at some point of their buying process. "

" Assist customers in the self-planning process or provide accurate designs and detailed layouts at the proper time in the customer’s buying process. "


" Qualify customers and provide more detailed plans when the customer needs this and is ready to buy. "

(The complete ad can be viewed on this blog.)

Clearly, to get the planning that is required for a well designed kitchen, you need to have in depth product knowledge and, be proficient with IKEA planning tools. This is where hiring Tekbuild to assist with your kitchen planning can make the most of your time. We can meet at IKEA and walk you through the displays with attention on your needs and wants. Since we don’t work for IKEA, the other people needing assistance are not our focus. People on occasion do “hang close” to listen and ask the occasional question, but you are our focus! Having this attention insures your questions get answered and you receive an accurate kitchen plan you deserve with minimal interruption.

Once the planning is complete and we have the list of items needed, we can approach the staff for availability and get your order entered for delivery or pick up. Hiring Tekbuild can save you multiple trips to the store and get you a more professional result than relying on the staff to assist you while juggling the needs of other shoppers. The expense to hire a professional to assist with your planning is a vary small percentage of the overall project cost and one that will pay for itself many times over.

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View the quoted want ad