The store in Bengaluru, spanning 4,60,000 square feet, is the largest in India. It offers a massive range of home furnishing products and hosts a 1000-seater restaurant offering Indian and Swedish delicacies.
IKEA India is trending in India after pictures of long queues of the Bengaluru store in the Nagasandra area goes viral. There were many images, gifs, and videos of citizens standing in zig zag queues at the store which was just mind-bobbling and resulted in many memes on Twitter. The wait in the store was somewhat 3 hours.
On Saturday, IKEA through its Twitter account said, “Bengaluru, we are overwhelmed by your response Current wait time at Nagasandra store is 3 hours. Please plan accordingly or shop online.”
IKEA Nagasandra store has more than 7,000 home furnishing products spread across 4.6 lakh square feet. The Nagasandra Store in Bengaluru is IKEA’s fourth store in India. The three other IKEA stores are located in Hyderabad, Navi Mumbai, and Worli City Store, respectively.
With a planned investment of ₹3,000 crore in Karnataka, IKEA is expecting to attract close to 50 lakh visitors this year in Bengaluru, the company said. According to the company, the new store will be an iconic landmark in the city, providing home furnishing solutions catering to the diverse needs of the family. According to Twitter Trends – India, IKEA is currently the 28th trending topic with 11.8k tweets.
Harsh Goenka, Chairman of RPG Enterprises tweeted saying, “It’s not MLAs queuing in Maharashtra to form government, It’s not an immigration queue to enter our country, It’s not a vaccination queue to avoid Covid wave, It’s not pilgrims queueing in Tirupati for darshan, It’s the opening of IKEA store in Bangalore!.”
