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A pictorial tour of IKEA's first store in India

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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.

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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.

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The Swedish retailer spent years studying India, made over 1,000 home visits to find out how Indians eat, sleep, relax and entertain.

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You get everything, from sofa sets, to beds, to kiddie furniture, to home accessories and even cutlery.

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Lower-level cabinets and countertops for the Indian woman, who tends to be shorter than Europeans and Americans.

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Products tailored to Indian tastes -- lunchboxes with multiple compartments, pans to cook Indian flatbread, mattresses with coconut fibres.

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Hundreds of items at affordable prices, including a $2.16 jewellery box, shoehorns for 70 cents each, multilingual doormats for $5.

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A cafeteria with 1,000 seats, the biggest among all IKEA’s in-store restaurants, offering a spread of Swedish and Indian dishes.

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Rs 10 billion invested in IKEA Hyderabad. Next on the agenda: 25 stores in India by 2025.

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A store in Navi Mumbai next summer, followed by Bengaluru and Delhi. Ahmedabad, Surat, Pune, Chennai and Kolkata come later.