Ikea Thread (merged)

arkonite_babe

Official MoneySavingExpert.com note:

Northern Ireland's first Ikea opens this Thursday (13 December). If you're planning to visit it's worth grabbing a Family card while you're there which gives discounts on items plus free tea or coffee Monday to Friday. Plus, if it's your birthday on Thursday take some photo id with you and you'll get a £10 Gift card.

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To join the Ikea family scheme for the new store opening in Belfast visit

http://www.ikeanewstores.co.uk/register/

Join IKEA FAMILY, its FREE!


IKEA FAMILY members can access a wide range of benefits, including a free home furnishing magazine and discounts on selected IKEA products. If you’re already registered with IKEA.com or Shop Online! and want to become an IKEA FAMILY member too simply upgrade your details in My Profile.

arkonite_babe

I just signed up and received the following information;

Welcome to IKEA FAMILY

We've received your application and would like to say a big thank you for joining IKEA FAMILY. And we'd like to welcome you to our new store, which will be opening soon.

What happens next?

Your IKEA FAMILY card should arrive by post in October. Remember to bring it with you and swipe it every time you shop at IKEA.

The more you visit, the more you get.

As you know, with IKEA FAMILY, we reward your every visit to the store. And as a member you can enjoy:

25% off everything in the dedicated IKEA FAMILY shop.

Savings of up to 25% on selected items throughout the store.

FREE tea and coffee from our in-store restaurant, Monday to Friday.

A FREE copy of IKEA FAMILY LIVE, our quarterly home furnishing magazine.

Exclusive monthly e-offers full of inspiration and offers.

Get great rewards and benefits based on how often you shop, along with each quarterly statement.

Once again, thanks for joining IKEA FAMILY.

butterflymum

Thanks for this post. I had tried registering last week, but Belfast wasn't one of the options yet.

Step_7

Good stuff - I can't wait to spend hours in a traffic jam on the roads outside IKEA this Christmas waiting to get in to look round!

Bigcammy

Saw this in the Belfast Telegraph tonight, might as well register and get free tea and coffee!

happymummy24-7

I was chatting to one of the managers wives a few weeks ago and was saying how mad the trarffic is gonna be when it opens and she laughed and said dont be silly,they arnt expecting any decent interest in it as it will be so close to christmas that people wont be thinking about doing up their houses ect!!..................boy are they in for a shock!!!!!!!!
Ive been told by my family-pleaded with infact-not to be one of the ones being trampled to death on the first day it opens ( ive compromised though by saying i wont take any of the kids,lol)
I CANT WAIT!!!!!!

Bigcammy

I reckon I'll avoid Ikea until about Mid-February, let the initial surge get over. I reckon it will be very busy, after all, people travel from North and South to Ikea in Glasgow etc, so there's bound to be plenty that will come up from the ROI to the Belfast store, seeing as the Dublin one won't be opening for a couple of years yet.

Milko

And by mid 2008 ... everybodies house will look the same

arkonite_babe

I can't wait :j, but will leave it until about February. Might have some more money gathered up after the christmas festivites by then!!

Nomad25

With an outlet here, maybe they will finally activate on-line ordering/delivery for NI, which when I last enquired, they wouldn't do [usual mainland only excuse]- and we can all avoid the queues! I have been writing to them over the past 15+ years about opening over here -they told me there was no market for them in NI: lol. Wonder what's changed their mind!

arkonite_babe

They probably finally realized the amount of NI people going over to Scotland meant that there was a market.
I've been in contact with them for the past few years too, even when Dublin was announced they still said they had no interest in Northern Ireland. I suppose that combined with the current peaceful political climate here has helped