‘You may have the bigger store… but we have the bigger balls!’ Subway has poked fun at its new neighbour on Oxford Street after Swedish furniture giant IKEA moved into one of the busiest shopping districts in London to much fanfare. Crowds gathered outside the grade II-listed former Topshop building early on Thursday morning (1/5) […]

11 months ago

Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency are said to be behind the attack Russian spies have been accused of orchestrating an arson attack on an Ikea furniture store in Lithuania ‘because it had the same colours as the Ukrainian flag’. The fire broke out in a store in the capital of Vilnius in May last year […]

1 year ago

Brilliant news for meatball lovers Ikea has announced the opening of its first restaurant on the UK high street. Although the Swedish furniture retailer is known for its affordable flat-pack homewares and trustworthy designs, the brand’s in-store restaurant, which sells its iconic meatballs, has become the highlight of every Ikea trip for many. The first […]

1 year ago

All the joy of the meatballs, without any of the stresses of Ikea Ikea has revealed how to make its iconic meatballs at home. Arguably as famous as their flatpack furniture and blue and yellow colour scheme, the Ikea meatballs are the stuff of legend. Often acting as the much-earned reward for dealing with a […]

2 years ago

Prices at popular high-street shops are going through the roof  British shoppers are having to endure vastly higher prices at popular high-street outlets thanks to the effects of Brexit, a Guardian Money investigation has revealed. A snapshot survey of pan-European stores shows many of them are charging more for the same items in Britain, and none are […]

3 years ago

The cameras were reportedly installed to monitor drug use A branch of IKEA has apologised after bosses inadvertently filmed staff using bathrooms at work after they installed CCTV cameras above the toilets. The Swedish company published the findings of a probe launched back in September 2021 looking into how and why surveillance cameras were placed […]

4 years ago