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North Wales Chronicle
6 days ago
- Business
- North Wales Chronicle
IKEA offering customers half price meals including meatballs
Whether you're making eating out plans or you're looking for some furniture deals, IKEA has you sorted. Here are the discounts you can get this summer at IKEA stores. To claim all the offers, customers must be IKEA Family members, however, the sale on items in available for everyone to take advantage of. Anyone can sign up for free via the IKEA website. A post shared by IKEA UK (@ikeauk) The furniture store is famous for its affordable meatballs, mash and gravy food served in its in-store restaurants and now they're even cheaper. From Thursday, June 5, members can get at least 50% off all main meals and children's meals in IKEA Restaurants across the UK Monday to Friday from 11am until store closing, between Thursday, June 5 and Friday, August 29. The offer applies to other dishes too, including an 8-piece meatball meal for £2.75 (regular price £5.50), Fish and chips for £3 (regular price £6.95) and Sausage and Mash for £2.45. Meanwhile, kids' meals, all of which include a piece of fruit and a soft drink, include children's Meatballs for £1.25 (regular price £2.50) and Children's pasta for just 45p (regular price 95p). All eligible meals: 8-piece meatball meal: £2.75 (regular price £5.50) 12-piece meatball meal: £3.35 (regular price £6.75) Fish and chips: £3 (regular price £6.95) Sausage and Mash: £2.45 (regular price £4.95) Veggie Sausage and Mash: £2.45 (regular price £4.95) Salmon Fillet: £3 (regular price £6.95) Pasta and Tomato Sauce: £1.45 (regular price £2.95) Rice mix with vegetables: £1.25 (regular price £2.50) Mushroom, Cheddar and Garlic Tart: £3.25 (regular price £6.50)* not available at IKEA Belfast Children's Meatballs: £1.25 (regular price £2.50) Children's Plant balls: 95p (regular price £1.95) Children's Pasta: 45p (regular price 95p) Children's Sausage & Mash: £1.25 (regular price £2.50) Children's Veggie Sausage & Mash: £1.25 (regular price £2.50) Children's Plant based pieces: 95p (regular price £1.95) The food at IKEA is popular with one customer at the Southampton store sharing their experience on Google Reviews: "For it is all about the food after hectic shopping for the uni student we had to have a sumptuous lunch to satisfy our hunger. "The meatballs are a must when at IKEA but my favourite was also the fish and chips and loved the baked Salmon too. Ended the lunch with a sumptuous piece of apple pie!" Another commented: "Visiting IKEA in Southampton was both practical and fun—it became my go-to spot for affordable furniture and home essentials. "Wandering through the maze of showrooms and grabbing a plate of their iconic meatballs made the trip feel like a mini adventure." If you're heading to IKEA to shop, you can also get your hands on some summer deals if you make purchases between June 5 and 15 as you will receive a voucher giving you £10 off a £60 purchase to use until August 31 at participating stores. IKEA Family customers making a purchase at IKEA Oxford Street and IKEA Hammersmith during the same timeframe will receive a voucher giving them £10 of a £40 purchase. Recommended reading: Tesco Clubcard announces changes for customers with new deals on offer WH Smith on track to complete sale of UK high street chain within weeks Greggs customers 'gutted' as 'best' menu item axed after nearly 10 years The IKEA Summer Sale also starts from tomorrow, with up to 60% off items. More than 600 items are included in the sale across all areas of the home, including kitchen, dining, bedroom, living room and bathroom. Just a small selection of items discounted in the sale include: HEMNES Coffee Table in black/brown: £79 (38% off) MALM double bedframe in blue: £55 (55% off) SAGESUND Upholstered single bed frame, Diseröd brown: £99 (51% off) IDANÄS Drop-leaf table, white: £99 (33% off) To take advantage of the IKEA Food and '£10 off when you spend £60 or £40' (depending on store) offers, customers must be an IKEA Family member. IKEA Family unlocks access to a range of exclusive deals and benefits, from special discounts to priority access to events and workshops.
Rhyl Journal
6 days ago
- Business
- Rhyl Journal
IKEA offering customers half price meals including meatballs
Whether you're making eating out plans or you're looking for some furniture deals, IKEA has you sorted. Here are the discounts you can get this summer at IKEA stores. To claim all the offers, customers must be IKEA Family members, however, the sale on items in available for everyone to take advantage of. Anyone can sign up for free via the IKEA website. A post shared by IKEA UK (@ikeauk) The furniture store is famous for its affordable meatballs, mash and gravy food served in its in-store restaurants and now they're even cheaper. From Thursday, June 5, members can get at least 50% off all main meals and children's meals in IKEA Restaurants across the UK Monday to Friday from 11am until store closing, between Thursday, June 5 and Friday, August 29. The offer applies to other dishes too, including an 8-piece meatball meal for £2.75 (regular price £5.50), Fish and chips for £3 (regular price £6.95) and Sausage and Mash for £2.45. Meanwhile, kids' meals, all of which include a piece of fruit and a soft drink, include children's Meatballs for £1.25 (regular price £2.50) and Children's pasta for just 45p (regular price 95p). All eligible meals: 8-piece meatball meal: £2.75 (regular price £5.50) 12-piece meatball meal: £3.35 (regular price £6.75) Fish and chips: £3 (regular price £6.95) Sausage and Mash: £2.45 (regular price £4.95) Veggie Sausage and Mash: £2.45 (regular price £4.95) Salmon Fillet: £3 (regular price £6.95) Pasta and Tomato Sauce: £1.45 (regular price £2.95) Rice mix with vegetables: £1.25 (regular price £2.50) Mushroom, Cheddar and Garlic Tart: £3.25 (regular price £6.50)* not available at IKEA Belfast Children's Meatballs: £1.25 (regular price £2.50) Children's Plant balls: 95p (regular price £1.95) Children's Pasta: 45p (regular price 95p) Children's Sausage & Mash: £1.25 (regular price £2.50) Children's Veggie Sausage & Mash: £1.25 (regular price £2.50) Children's Plant based pieces: 95p (regular price £1.95) The food at IKEA is popular with one customer at the Southampton store sharing their experience on Google Reviews: "For it is all about the food after hectic shopping for the uni student we had to have a sumptuous lunch to satisfy our hunger. "The meatballs are a must when at IKEA but my favourite was also the fish and chips and loved the baked Salmon too. Ended the lunch with a sumptuous piece of apple pie!" Another commented: "Visiting IKEA in Southampton was both practical and fun—it became my go-to spot for affordable furniture and home essentials. "Wandering through the maze of showrooms and grabbing a plate of their iconic meatballs made the trip feel like a mini adventure." If you're heading to IKEA to shop, you can also get your hands on some summer deals if you make purchases between June 5 and 15 as you will receive a voucher giving you £10 off a £60 purchase to use until August 31 at participating stores. IKEA Family customers making a purchase at IKEA Oxford Street and IKEA Hammersmith during the same timeframe will receive a voucher giving them £10 of a £40 purchase. Recommended reading: Tesco Clubcard announces changes for customers with new deals on offer WH Smith on track to complete sale of UK high street chain within weeks Greggs customers 'gutted' as 'best' menu item axed after nearly 10 years The IKEA Summer Sale also starts from tomorrow, with up to 60% off items. More than 600 items are included in the sale across all areas of the home, including kitchen, dining, bedroom, living room and bathroom. Just a small selection of items discounted in the sale include: HEMNES Coffee Table in black/brown: £79 (38% off) MALM double bedframe in blue: £55 (55% off) SAGESUND Upholstered single bed frame, Diseröd brown: £99 (51% off) IDANÄS Drop-leaf table, white: £99 (33% off) To take advantage of the IKEA Food and '£10 off when you spend £60 or £40' (depending on store) offers, customers must be an IKEA Family member. IKEA Family unlocks access to a range of exclusive deals and benefits, from special discounts to priority access to events and workshops.
The Sun
03-06-2025
- Business
- The Sun
IKEA announces sudden closure of UK store that opened just two years ago after customer backlash
IKEA has announced it is closing down a UK store it opened just two years ago following a backlash from customers. The famous Swedish homewares retailer has confirmed the Plan and Order point at the Stockport Merseyway Shopping Centre will cease in just a fortnight's time on June 16. The store in Greater Manchester is a smaller outlet than its usual out-of-town locations and is focused on kitchen, bedroom and living room planning. The aim was to provide somewhere for customers to go to get advice and expertise on home furnishing and somewhere where they could design their ideal fittings and get individual 3D interior plans from the interior designers. According to IKEA, the decision to close the store permanently was made due to 'a result of valuable learnings' where the company recognised their customers wanted a different retail experience, more along the lines of Click and Collect and return services. While the Stockport branch will close for good, other Plan and Order points, such as the ones in Dundee, York and Hull, will be adapted to meet those new demands and also include a small range of home furnishing accessories to buy. The current Stockport customers are now being directed to the next nearest main IKEA store, the branch in Ashton-under-Lyne in Tameside. Locals can also now pick up their IKEA purchases from Tesco Extra in Stockport and the Tesco Extra in Stretford as part of Click and Collect. Salma Azad, IKEA area manager said: 'After careful evaluation, we've made the difficult decision to close the IKEA Plan and Order Point at Merseyway Shopping Centre. 'In the two years since opening, we've taken valuable learnings, including how our customers prefer to meet IKEA, and we'll take these insights into future openings, to serve shoppers in a more impactful way. 'I want to sincerely thank all of the customers that have shopped with us in this time. IKEA Manchester, a store locals know and love, will continue to be the closest hub for home planning, meatballs and everything in between.' Bosses had hoped the Plan and Order in Stockport would 'become more accessible and sustainable for customers in the north west'. I did a haul of the new Oxford Street Ikea whilst on my lunch break & I managed to kit out with bargains under £3 However, it did come under criticism from some shoppers. In a Facebook post about the closure, one person wrote: 'I'm not surprised to be honest. It is very small.' While a second added: 'It wasn't the right shop for that place, they'd have been better off setting up an IKEA homeware and food shop there!' A third critic said: 'Really don't know why it opened in the first place. Pointless.' The news comes after IKEA opened its own hotel in the Canary Islands. The location offers cheap rooms, a swimming pool and breakfast is included while also offering some of their most popular homeware items. Why are retailers closing stores? RETAILERS have been feeling the squeeze since the pandemic, while shoppers are cutting back on spending due to the soaring cost of living crisis. High energy costs and a move to shopping online after the pandemic are also taking a toll, and many high street shops have struggled to keep going. However, additional costs have added further pain to an already struggling sector. The British Retail Consortium has predicted that the Treasury's hike to employer NICs from April will cost the retail sector £2.3billion. At the same time, the minimum wage will rise to £12.21 an hour from April, and the minimum wage for people aged 18-20 will rise to £10 an hour, an increase of £1.40. The Centre for Retail Research (CRR) has also warned that around 17,350 retail sites are expected to shut down this year. It comes on the back of a tough 2024 when 13,000 shops closed their doors for good, already a 28% increase on the previous year. Professor Joshua Bamfield, director of the CRR said: "The results for 2024 show that although the outcomes for store closures overall were not as poor as in either 2020 or 2022, they are still disconcerting, with worse set to come in 2025." It comes after almost 170,000 retail workers lost their jobs in 2024. End-of-year figures compiled by the Centre for Retail Research showed the number of job losses spiked amid the collapse of major chains such as Homebase and Ted Baker. It said its latest analysis showed that a total of 169,395 retail jobs were lost in the 2024 calendar year to date. This was up 49,990 – an increase of 41.9% – compared with 2023. It is the highest annual reading since more than 200,000 jobs were lost in 2020 in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced retailers to shut their stores during lockdowns. The centre said 38 major retailers went into administration in 2024, including household names such as Lloyds Pharmacy, Homebase, The Body Shop, Carpetright and Ted Baker. Around a third of all retail job losses in 2024, 33% or 55,914 in total, resulted from administrations. Experts have said small high street shops could face a particularly challenging 2025 because of Budget tax and wage changes. Professor Bamfield has warned of a bleak outlook for 2025, predicting that as many as 202,000 jobs could be lost in the sector. "By increasing both the costs of running stores and the costs on each consumer's household it is highly likely that we will see retail job losses eclipse the height of the pandemic in 2020."
Daily Mirror
29-04-2025
- Business
- Daily Mirror
First look inside IKEA Oxford Street store with section you've never seen before
The new site will offer the traditional IKEA experience that we Brits all know and love, with three floors of showrooms and a market space stocking more than 3,500 items of bargain homeware IKEA is opening its brand new Oxford Street store in London tomorrow, and it has revealed some exciting additions that customers will have never seen before. The long-awaited store will pull up the shutters for customers in the capital at 10am on May 1, following an extensive renovation of the former TopShop site. Going forward, it will be open from 10am until 8pm every day. IKEA first hinted in 2015 that it was looking to take over the Grade II-listed building on 214 Oxford Street. It later bought the site in 2021. With the store finally opening, customers will see the site span three floors of the seven-storey building, comprising the ground and two lower ground floors, with a retail space of 5,800 square metres. The new site will offer the traditional IKEA experience that we Brits all know and love, with three floors of showrooms and a market space stocking more than 3,500 items of bargain homeware. Keeping up with tradition, the new Oxford Street store will have a 130-seater Swedish deli serving classic IKEA dishes including its 85p hotdogs and its beloved meatballs and plantballs, with mashed potatoes, lingonberry jam and cream sauce. In a global first for IKEA, the Oxford Street store will feature a 25 square metre Live Studio with broadcasting capabilities. The Swedish homeware retailer says the space will enable IKEA to feature and host interactive experiences and exhibitions for "locally relevant events". The new store will also have a Re-Shop and Re-Use section, where customers can shop for second-hand, second-life, and discontinued IKEA products. Alongside this, the ground floor will feature three "Curated Shops" shopping edits created by Londoners that "reflect and celebrate the character and diversity of the city's residents". IKEA says it will invite new Londoners to curate their own product selection multiple times a year. The opening marks a major milestone in IKEA's plans to increase its presence in city centres and expand with smaller stores across the UK. As mentioned earlier, the opening of this site is the definition of long-awaited. Renovation work on the site started in 2022, initially aiming to welcome customers by autumn 2023. However, last year, IKEA announced a delay, moving the expected opening to autumn 2024, and finally spring 2025 because of the extensive refurbishment requirements. Confirming the exact opening date in March this year, IKEA said it had been inundated with job applications, having received 3,730 in just six days for the Oxford Street store – more than ten times the 150 available positions. Peter Jelkeby, CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer, IKEA UK, said: 'Tomorrow, we will celebrate our new home on Oxford Street, a milestone in our journey to becoming more accessible. "It will be an IKEA many know and love, with some new features exclusive to this iconic city centre store. Created in collaboration with real voices and with Londoners in mind, opening our doors is a landmark moment following a meticulous renovation and we are truly excited to share it.' The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the new flagship store on Oxford Street was a "huge vote of confidence" in London, its economy, and its plans to rejuvenate Oxford Street. He said: "Oxford Street is one of the most famous shopping destinations in the world and we want to give it a new lease of life. "This involves attracting brilliant companies like IKEA, which will help to create new jobs and increase footfall. We have developed bold proposals to pedestrianise Oxford Street and to establish it as a global leader for shopping, leisure and outdoor events. The consultation on these plans closes on May, 2 so I encourage everyone to have their say.'
