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Almost 40,000 footfalls on August 9, with 1,300 walk-ins in first half hour alone; Serpentine queues by the evening.
400,000 sq ft floor area, 7,500 products, including 1,000 priced below Rs 200. Store open throughout the week from 10 am to 11 pm.
The Swedish retailer spent years studying India, made over 1,000 home visits to find out how Indians eat, sleep, relax and entertain.
You get everything, from sofa sets, to beds, to kiddie furniture, to home accessories and even cutlery.
Lower-level cabinets and countertops for the Indian woman, who tends to be shorter than Europeans and Americans.
Products tailored to Indian tastes -- lunchboxes with multiple compartments, pans to cook Indian flatbread, mattresses with coconut fibres.
Hundreds of items at affordable prices, including a $2.16 jewellery box, shoehorns for 70 cents each, multilingual doormats for $5.
A cafeteria with 1,000 seats, the biggest among all IKEA’s in-store restaurants, offering a spread of Swedish and Indian dishes.
Rs 10 billion invested in IKEA Hyderabad. Next on the agenda: 25 stores in India by 2025.
A store in Navi Mumbai next summer, followed by Bengaluru and Delhi. Ahmedabad, Surat, Pune, Chennai and Kolkata come later.