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IKEA queues?

MichaelR

Hello,

When IKEA reopened, there were reports of massive queues outside it.

What is the queue situation at present? And does it differ for workdays vs weekends?

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Alicano

Queues are a joke. Have been since it reopened. I've had 4 drive by attempts and turned around. Tried as recent as last Monday 1.30pm. Security chap told me queue time was approx 1hr.. When I gasped he said it was a 2hr wait previously that morning. So in a word. Relentless.

annoyedgal

wondering about this also. I wonder would it be better an hour or so before closing time?

ongarboy

Do not turn up at or just before opening time as the queue for the first couple of hours after opening time will be non moving as the first couple of hundred early birds who got there before you and who have reached the store's maximum pandemic occupancy will be browsing/shopping for a few hours. It's only when they start leaving 1-2 hours in, that the queue starts moving again as the store starts letting one customer in as one customer comes out. I'd leave it to mid afternoon.

colm_mcm

Apparently it gets quiet around 5.

L1011

Queue was rapidly moving at 420 and gone at 5 when we left today. Inside was busier than I expected

jackofalltrades

I went there an hour before it closed on Wednesday around 2 weeks ago.
Queued for around 15/20 minutes.
Queue seemed long, but was constantly moving.
A lot more tills open than usual, so paying was a lot quicker than normal.
I'd imagine it's even quieter now.

SmashingPilot

I went on Thursday evening. Arrived about 6:30 and walked straight in, couldn't believe it.

Muahahaha

Still no restaurant open? Have they said when it will reopen? I want my meatballs

L1011

Muahahaha wrote: »

Still no restaurant open? Have they said when it will reopen? I want my meatballs

Its actually a full restaurant, has a drink licence etc so would have to be table service only and take contact details etc etc now. So probably after August 10th

[Deleted User]

L1011 wrote: »

Its actually a full restaurant, has a drink licence etc so would have to be table service only and take contact details etc etc now. So probably after August 10th

I think i'm missing something here. Why would it have to be table service only or be limited in any way by the August 10 rule? You can go and have a buffet in a restaurant in Dublin city centre today, with or without alcohol.

Hugo_Whoriskey

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I think i'm missing something here. Why would it have to be table service only or be limited in any way by the August 10 rule? You can go and have a buffet in a restaurant in Dublin city centre today, with or without alcohol.

I'm curious, where are you able to get a buffet today in Dublin?

1hnr79jr65

Was goin into ikea today, 2 hour wait time in queue to get in, NOPE, stayed 15 secs and fkd off home.

All i wanted was a frying pan, zip lock bags and some meatballs to bring home, not worth the wait.

[Deleted User]

Hugo_Whoriskey wrote: »

I'm curious, where are you able to get a buffet today in Dublin?

Mongolian Bbq, Tempe Bar. They serve alcohol too.

A few more on the North Inner City up around Marlborough Street (Asian).

L1011

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I think i'm missing something here. Why would it have to be table service only or be limited in any way by the August 10 rule? You can go and have a buffet in a restaurant in Dublin city centre today, with or without alcohol.

Buffets are meant to be out currently due to the lack of distancing, potential for cross contamination etc.. Company like IKEA is not going to be seen to even pick at the corner of the rules, would be disasterous for PR.

Sanitising the tables between customers would be a nightmare too with the throughput there - very hard to keep notice of what tables have been used.

Realtine

Went to Ikea in Ballymun yesterday, 1.5 hours queue, daughter needed something for her bedroom so we waited. The queue moved quick enough, well it seemed to, still though I felt every minute of it.

I'm wondering if's it quieter say of a Monday morning? Does anyone know. Will need to go again soon as in the market for a kitchen.

L1011

Every morning is bad; as pointed out the first group gets let in then nobody leaves for at least 20mins; with no large amount leaving for even longer.

JupiterKid

There is simply zero chance of me queueing to shop in Ikea. Absolutely zilch.

I have a couple of IKEA shelving units in my house and a few other smaller bits and pieces and they are grand - but after shopping in IKEA a few times for things over the past 8 years or so, I really think their stuff is very overrated and certainly not worth standing outside for an hour or more waiting just to get inside.

L1011

The problem with IKEA is basically - what are the alternatives?

For furniture its particularly stark. Woodies, Homebase, Argos sell poorer quality flatpack for higher prices

The few remaining general furniture stores sell anything from poorer quality flatpack through to high quality, hardwood furniture, but at vastly higher prices and with less range. There are sofa specialists and bed specialists but not much else, even Harvey Norman is basically a sofa and bed specialist now.

Absolutely nowhere has the same range of homewares and a lot of what the big homeware stores have is either extremely tacky, extremely expensive or both. Homesense sells whatever they can find with zero consistency. Lots of the brands in other stores are very poor quality.

So people end up going there because its easy. They sell practically everything in one place and its all of acceptable quality and price. Before they came here it was a lot harder and a lot dearer to get what you wanted. I remember wobbly black ash flatpack costing megabucks from Woodies, and peeling melamine coated computer desks in every house.

Muahahaha

L1011 wrote: »

The problem with IKEA is basically - what are the alternatives?

For furniture its particularly stark. Woodies, Homebase, Argos sell poorer quality flatpack for higher prices

.

Yeah would definitely agree with that. Ive checked flat pack in Woodies and Homebase and it really is the most terrible and cheap pieces of tat. Just to touch it you can feel the cheapness in it, like you could snap it in half with your knee. And then you see the prices :eek: I dont know how they get away with selling that crap but obviously some people go for it.

I thought the Ikea queues would have died down by now but clearly not. Maybe families are using it as a day out for the kids or something. I only want 4 or 5 small items and under normal circumstances I could get in and out in 20 minutes by going in backwards via the tills and then using shortcuts for the market hall. In any case I'm not going back until I can get my meatballs and chips dripping in gravy.

[Deleted User]

I was there on a Sunday a few weeks ago, 12th actually.

Started queuing at 11:40

Was in the door in about an hour.

The hour went quickly enough.

[Deleted User]

JupiterKid wrote: »

There is simply zero chance of me queueing to shop in Ikea. Absolutely zilch.

I have a couple of IKEA shelving units in my house and a few other smaller bits and pieces and they are grand - but after shopping in IKEA a few times for things over the past 8 years or so, I really think their stuff is very overrated and certainly not worth standing outside for an hour or more waiting just to get inside.

Literally just had this conversation with someone earlier. IKEA was a bit of a novelty when it came to Dublin. I was renting a dingy apartment in a converted house at the time, and it was a cheap way of getting rid of 1990s furniture. But a lot of the stuff there isn't the kind of furniture you'd want to be looking at for the next 15 years or so.

It reminds me a bit of the cheap, disposable clothing we're all told to avoid, from the likes of H&M. Better to look for something that will last, and probably work out cheaper in the long term.

Not that many of us will be buying furniture in the near future. Need to see what's going to happen with the gathering economic clouds!

annoyedgal

Went to ikea last night at 7. Couldn't believe the size of the queue to be honest. Moved pretty well but not super fast by any means.
Was busy enough inside too and feck all social distancing although most had masks on.
No time queueing for the till thankfully and no queue outside when i left at 8.30.

Pacifico

If you use click and collect do you have to queue in the main queue or is there a separate one?!

Ferris_Bueller

annoyedgal wrote: »

Went to ikea last night at 7. Couldn't believe the size of the queue to be honest. Moved pretty well but not super fast by any means.
Was busy enough inside too and feck all social distancing although most had masks on.
No time queueing for the till thankfully and no queue outside when i left at 8.30.

How long of a queue are you talking? I was going to pop up midweek next Tuesday or Wednesday, presumed by like 7.30/8pm that the queues would have died down. Just need to brace myself!

annoyedgal

It was over across the overflow part in the 2nd section of carpark. I gave up after 10 min and pleaded pregnancy privilege to skip as wouldn't have managed it otherwise.
Think i was unlucky, some others here said was quiet at that time. If your able bodied you'll be fine, was moving, just not very fast.

adrian522

Walked straight in at 7pm last Sunday, 1 hour before closing. Checkout was really fast too.
There was a bit of a queue to get in an elevator when leaving but still less than 5 mins.
I didn't bother with the showroom area, went directly downstairs to the self service furniture area.

mikekerry

Are the queues as bad as ever?
was thinking of heading there 5ish today

Dial Hard

My mum and sister went on Tuesday and came straight home, said it was like Disneyworld in August.

Foweva Awone

mikekerry wrote: »

Are the queues as bad as ever?
was thinking of heading there 5ish today

I haven't braved it yet... From what I hear, your best bet is to nip in as close as possible to closing, assuming you know what you want and where to find it!!

mikekerry

thanks.
not sure if I am brave enough to handle the queues just yet!
thought it might have quietened down by now