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New IKEA store in Southampton

by Dwro8ea | March 28, 2009 at 02:03 am

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IKEA opened recently their first shop in Southampton. It is the first shop they open in the South of England and people are arriving from all the nearby towns. I visited the place a couple of weeks after it opened, cause I thought 'I'll give it some time to cool down'. As you can see from the pictures... it really didn't cool down! There were queues everywhere. We had to queue for at least 20 mins in the parking in order to get in. While inside it was not that bad but what stroke me was that I saw at least a couple of couples with their newborns in there. The babies were like days old! Makes no sense... Apart from that we had to queue for another half hour to get food in the IKEA restaurant.

I've been to many IKEA stores around Europe but I have to say I did not like this one. It has a weird structure. You have to go up 3 floors, through the parking to get to the shop. I didn't find it very practical. But on the other hand it was built in the city centre which is handy if you want to go in for a few small things.

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jazzyzazzy

at 05:09 on April 7th, 2009

Cheap and cheerful thats Ikea. As for the cues that in itself would put me off going there.

Basser (not verified)

at 08:13 on August 6th, 2009

Great!! in-store but god help you if you want to find something you've found in-store in their Catalogue or on the Web-site, It's an absolute Nightmare!! and the Stupid on-line Audio help (person) is a "Moronic" Cyber Gnome!!

Amy Judd

at 08:01 on March 28th, 2009

Cool - we've had an Ikea here for a while, but I have never even been in it - shocking I know!

Dwro8ea

at 11:25 on March 28th, 2009

Shocking indeed!! IKEA is not bad at all. It's excellent if you are on a low budget and you wonna change your house a bit. But these queues are unbelievable..

Sheena bloomfield (not verified)

at 12:35 on June 22nd, 2009

Can you please let me have the address of the store in Southampton

Thankyou

Mrs. S. Bloomfield

Dwro8ea

at 12:46 on June 22nd, 2009

Hi,

here are all the details for the shop :

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/store/southampton

paresh@cleaning (not verified)

at 04:53 on August 6th, 2009

I just want to add with your article that the place is quite maintained and the service is so good that you can wait for half an hour for them to serve you.