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IKEA is shutting ANOTHER UK store in just a fortnight's time after ‘lessons learned' amid customer backlash
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BED-DER SAFE IKEA is shutting ANOTHER UK store in just a fortnight's time after 'lessons learned' amid customer backlash
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YET another IKEA store has announced it's shutting its doors and saying farewell - or farväl - to customers.
Retail giant IKEA was founded in Sweden in 1943, and opened its first UK branch in Warrington, Cheshire, in 1987.
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The homeware retailer has confirmed the Plan and Order point is closing
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The next Swedish store to pull the plug is the Aintree Plan and Order Point store in Liverpool.
Set up in December 2022, the Aintree Racecourse Retail Park store was the first 'test and trial format' in the UK.
The smaller Plan & Order Point store was dedicated to kitchen and bedroom planning, and offered customers home furnishing advice.
IKEA explained the closure was 'a result of valuable learnings which will take the conceptual format in a direction to better suit the needs of UK customers'.
A spokesperson for the retail giant expressed: 'There has been an increased demand for Click and Collect services, a desire to shop a smaller selection of home furnishing accessories, as well as the ability to return goods to physical IKEA units, something which, owing to the space available, the current location is unable to offer.
'To better service its customers, future Plan and Order Point openings, including in Dundee, Hull and York will offer these services.
"IKEA also remains committed to trialling new formats including its upcoming small stores, one of which will open in Chester later this year.'
Customers will be able to collect any purchases from Tesco Extra Birkenhead, Tesco Superstore Old Swan, the Warrington store or the upcoming smaller new Chester store.
The disheartening retail news comes after the closure of IKEA Stockport in Merseyway Shopping Centre, which opened just two years ago.
The retailer has confirmed that both Plan and Order points will be closing on June 16.
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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 news comes after IKEA opened its own hotel in the Canary Islands.
Boasting cheap rooms, a swimming pool and breakfast, it also offers some of their most popular homeware items.
Las Dunas de Santa Catalina Boutique House is a new two-star hotel owned by the interiors brand in Gran Canaria.
Rooms start from £105 a night, which includes a continental breakfast, and works out to just over £50 a night for two people.
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The Merseyside Plan & Order Point will cease to trade from mid June
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