Aye or Nay? IKEA’s Launch In India Creates a Buzz On Twitter

IKEA opens its doors in India today. Here’s how Twitter users reacted!

IKEA has arrived, guys.

By the looks of it, desis couldn’t be more excited! The Swedish furniture retailer will launch its first Indian outlet today in Hyderabad and the 4,00,000-square feet showroom in Hitech Complex will display around 7,500 products. About 1,000 of these will sell for less than Rs 200 a piece, Bloomberg News reported.

According to reports, this will be the first of 25 stores IKEA plans to open across India by 2025.

Twitter users couldn’t keep their calm and flooded the micro-blogging platform with reactions. Take a look yourself!

“Craze is Amazing!’’

IKEA 1000- seater restaurant, possibly India's largest restuarant, a cafe will offer coffee, bakes, frozen yoghurt, Restuarant will offer Swedish specialities like salmon and chicken and vegetarian meatballs and 50% local delicacies like hyd biryani, samosa, etc. #IKEAHyderabad

— Munna⚡Anurag (@UrsAnurag) August 8, 2018

Just IKEA finds. #IKEAHyderabad pic.twitter.com/QezVA94kyH

— Sunaina Patnaik (@sunaina_patnaik) August 8, 2018

#IKEAHyderabad Loving it !!! pic.twitter.com/R7G7t757ZN

— SAKSHI KHANNA (@tweetsakshi) August 8, 2018

#IKEAHyderabad Craze is amazing

My wife is as excited as the owner of #ikea is for the grand opening tomorrow!!

Kharcha!!

— AAP Ka Mehta (@DaaruBaazMehta) August 8, 2018

“Time for a Road Trip... ”

Can’t wait to spend all my life savings at #IKEAHyderabad 😂

— Avenoir (@Adihyderabadi) August 8, 2018

Time to make that road trip to Hyderabad, I say! #IKEAHyderabad

— Aashish Bansal (@Unbelted) August 9, 2018

#IKEA opens its #firststore in #Hyderabad. Privileged to witness an @theRE100 #EV100 member joining hands with #Telangana - a member of #Under2Coaltion @ClimateGroup #IKEAHyderabad pic.twitter.com/LItow9JmdG

— Jarnail Singh (@jarnail2015) August 8, 2018

Always begin with good food and great furniture. @IKEAIndia #IKEAHyderabad #IkeaIndia #Ikea. pic.twitter.com/4Kob6TJeB0

— Arun Dan Yellamaty (@arunyellamaty) August 8, 2018

“Will IKEA Meet the Expectations of Indian Consumers?’’

After 6 long years, Ikea opens its first India store on Thursday. Can the global furniture retailer famous for gargantuan stores and build-it-yourself furniture thrive in a land of small, full-service shopkeepers? https://t.co/uZA9vPCdXR

— Vindu Goel (@vindugoel) August 8, 2018

Since I have visited an IKEA store in Sweden, I am going to be less excited. Aside from the fact that furniture needs maintenance. More so when you are deleting unwanted WhatsApp messages most of the time#IKEAHyderabad

— Madhavan Narayanan (@madversity) August 8, 2018

Companies come and go, those who stay for long are the one's that have adapted to the culture of the country. Lot of hype for #IKEAHyderabad. Hopefully they will meet the expectations of Indian Customers - Challenge is to reach to maximum people! #ConsumerBehavior

— Sriram (@NaamRaam) August 9, 2018

Dreading the #IKEAHyderabad overwhelm that can already be felt at the water cooler. All my desires to shop or even visit are rapidly disappearing as I see and hear the hype.

— subhorup dasgupta (@subho65) August 8, 2018

indian middle class gets to know the frustrations of assembling their own furniture...and eating swedish vegetarian meatballs.. :) #IKEAHyderabad https://t.co/kXmwv5gwLZ

— mahmood saberi (@mahmood_saberi) August 9, 2018