The grand opening ceremony will commence at 10am, with customers offered a slew of special prizes, the iconic Swedish company announced in a press release this week.
“The IKEA Pick-up & order point will located in Phuket will be the first in Asia and the 21st in the world,” said the announcement.
“It reflects IKEA’s aim to enable many people to access its wide rangen of well-designed, affordable and functional home furnishing solutions. The Pick-up & order point was designed to make it simple to order IKEA furniture. Residents of Phuket and surrounding provinces simply place an order at the Pick-up & order point, and then pick it up or have it delivered five days after ordering.”
Since it was founded in Sweden in 1943, IKEA has grown to 361 stores in 44 countries. The IKEA store in Samut Prakarn was the company’s first store in Thailand, now overshadowed by the main store at Bangna in Bangkok.