[kushagra452]

When is the IKEA mall expected to become operational in Gurgaon? Any Gurgaon residents here who can share the construction updates? Thanks!

[vsrivatsa]

Originally Posted by atnyia

Expecting a thinner crowd as lots of people would be vacationing. Any views?

Not sure about the weekend but the crowd was mild yesterday. I visited with family yesterday. Used the Metro to get to IKEA and it was a comfortable mode of transport.

Some pictures from my yesterday's visit:























































The Step Count on my Fitness Tracker showed 16,000 steps by End of Day yesterday - thanks to roaming around in IKEA

[hp52_vishy]

Originally Posted by akshaysehgal

I can confirm this, weirdly enough. There was a famous furniture/ceramic market called Banjara market in Sector 56 Gurgaon where you can find some amazing stuff for dirt cheap prices.

I stay in Sector 56 so I regularly used to visit the market and one fine day I randomly came across some beautiful wooden cutting boards for the kitchen. More interestingly they had a very original-looking Ikea tag on them! I used a barcode scanner to check and found they were actually authentic! Even found the same item being sold for 4 times the price at Ikea. Immediately pick up a couple, both seemed to have small marks on the wood (defects?).

This along with a lot of other wooden stuff for brands like Ikea apparently comes from furniture "factories" in some towns in UP.

Oh, and on another trip to the market I actually also found some ceramic microwave-safe bowls for 40 bucks each, which were sold with a plastic sticker on the bottom (and literally no other difference) for 250 bucks a piece in Home Center. Talk about margins!

Well, the IKEA is supposed to come up in Sector 47 Gurgaon according to a Indian Express report I went through. Now, seems genuine as many folks from Govt of Haryana incl the Hon CM Khattar have statements on how its going to help the local economy+employment situation etc.

The products you were able to get were maybe "rejects" that some NCR based suppliers for IKEA sell in gray market. They want to pickup money for manufacturing mistakes

Originally Posted by kushagra452

When is the IKEA mall expected to become operational in Gurgaon? Any Gurgaon residents here who can share the construction updates? Thanks!

Appartently, construction is supposed to complete in 2024 and it will open sometime in 2025. Link from HT
However, I would only trust if any of our NCR BHPians to do a recce of the area and come back with some evidence/pictures etc. I think it will be first store in Northern region of the country and soon after there's one more planned in Noida as well.

[PreludeSH]

Ikea, Bengaluru ordered to pay penalty for charging on the carry bags. Not sure if it was because of the logo it had printed on it or in general they cant sell bags to carry their own items.

https://www.indiatoday.in/cities/ben...685-2023-10-23