On Tuesday, IKEA opened its doors for the last time in Russia with an online-only fire sale.
The Swedish furniture company that still has 14 malls in Russia Under another brandIt is one of the latest companies to exit the Russian market amid the country’s war in Ukraine. Reuters reported That IKEA is still making plans for its 17 other stores that closed in March.
Russian IKEA website Tell customers Online sales will be carried out starting July 5, “for a few weeks until we run out of stock.” Purchases can only be made from the ikea.ru website.
According to ReutersThere were problems adding products to the shopping cart of the website as of 12:30 PM Moscow time.
The Website home page Contains a statement to buyers that making a purchase on the Website and through IKEA Customer Support is temporarily unavailable for technical reasons.
“We remind you that there are enough merchandise in the stores, our stores are closed, and the exchange and return departments are working as usual,” Home says.
The statement goes on to say that delivery and self-delivery are limited and carried out only in cities where the IKEA store is located, such as Moscow and St. Petersburg.
A previous message on the IKEA website stating that the company is “manually processing orders received” has been deleted, According to Reuters.
Last month, IKEA said it would sell its factories and close its offices in Russia, as well as reduce its 15,000-strong workforce in the country, Reuters reported. The company said it will pay its Russian workforce until the end of August.
“We still hope that one day in the future we will be able to return IKEA to many people in Russia,” IKEA owner, Ingka Group, He said in June. “However, the precautions today are not in place.”
