Bengaluru: IKEA sees ‘traffic jam’ of people, 3-hour wait to enter store

PTI, Jun 27, 2022, 10:58 AM IST

Bengaluru: The Swedish furniture conglomerate, ‘IKEA’ which opened its first outlet at Nagasandra in Bengaluru started trending on Twitter as had to wait around three hours at the store. It became difficult for the security guards to manage the crowd.

IKEA tweeted on Saturday, “Bengaluru, we are overwhelmed by your response. Current wait time at Nagasandra store is 3 hours. Please plan accordingly or shop online. For latest wait time updates.” (sic)

Meanwhile, Netizens are took full advantage of the incident and started curating memes on Twitter.

Have a look at a few tweets:

Instagram users coming to twitter right now. #InstagramDown pic.twitter.com/3NCssogRSL

— Rajabets India??? (@smileandraja) May 16, 2022

#IKEAInNagasandra till two days back no one knew where #Nagasandra is?? Now entire #Bangalore knows!! Even Google keypad typo knows it now!! @IKEA @

— Pradeep Bhogaiah (@pradeepwins) June 27, 2022

Everyone in Bangalore right now pic.twitter.com/K35fnAh886

— Anuj Tripathi (@depressedsebfan) June 25, 2022

POV: You visited the IKEA store in Bangalore. pic.twitter.com/y50JHDKynu

— AIl India Memes (@allindiamemes) June 26, 2022

How i think bengaluru houses are, after seeing the crowd at #ikeabangalore pic.twitter.com/318tnx3XGY

— Keerthi (@thekeerthikumar) June 26, 2022

Crowds at the IKEA store in Bangalore today. Looks like Tirupati finally has some competition ? pic.twitter.com/fQiS4e87rA

— Suyog Gaidhani (@suyogg) June 25, 2022

Me entering Nagasandra metro station after shopping from IKEA pic.twitter.com/OAyWqVh3px

— JT Meme Store (@kaapi_kudka) June 24, 2022

While it took around three hours for many customers to enter the store, many were forced to return home without even getting an entry.