IKEA India is trending in India after pictures of long queues at a Bengaluru store in the Nagasandra area went viral. There were many pictures, gifs and videos of citizens standing in zigzag queues at the store, which was just mind blowing and resulted in many memes on Twitter. The wait in the shop was some 3 hours.
on Saturday, Ikea “Bengaluru, we are overwhelmed with your response. The current wait time at Nagasandra store is 3 hours. Please plan accordingly or shop online,” he said via his Twitter account.
In Nagasandra, IKEA store opening hours are from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on all days. Whereas the restaurant opens from 9.30 am to 9.30 pm, and Smalland is open from 10 am to 8 pm on all days.
The IKEA Nagasandra store has more than 7,000 home furnishing products spread over 4.6 lakh sq ft.
nagasandra store Bangalore IKEA has its fourth store in India. Three other IKEA stores are located in Hyderabad, Navi Mumbai and Worli City stores respectively.
with a planned investment of 3,000 crore in Karnataka, IKEA expects to attract around 5 million visitors to Bengaluru this year, 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, President, RPG Enterprises tweeted, “This is not MLAs queuing to form government in Maharashtra, this is not an immigration queue to enter our country, this is not a vaccination queue to survive the Covid wave.” Well, it’s not the pilgrims queuing up for darshan in Tirupati, it’s the opening of an IKEA store in Bangalore!”
Meanwhile, Ashok Swain, professor of peace and conflict research at Uppsala University, said, “Crowds waiting to enter the new IKEA store in Bangalore, India. Hopefully, not for the meatballs!”
Other tweets are:
A Twitter handler used a photo of American actor, Dwayne Johnson carrying a giant bag. The user said, ‘I am entering the Nagasandra metro station after shopping from IKEA.
Another Twitter user said it looks like Tirupati finally has some competition, referring to the queues at IKEA stores.