Great to avoid the crowd.
Looks like it's not an app-only offer and don't need to be a member.
Usually IKEA charges $5 handling fee for a Click-and-Collect order. Free C&C with minimum $100 spend offer available until 31 December.
Combine with $10 off Voucher (Minimum $50 Spend, Membership Required) @ IKEA.
Kmart min spend $20
Coles min spend $50
Woolworths min spend $30
kmart go rid of their min spend half way thru covid
oops, my apologies.
I've never used Kmart C&C because they don't let me use gift card online to save another 5% off and I don't want to wait for an hour just to collect my order.
Exactly, it's more a free "you don't have to walk the 5kms through our shelves to get to the pick up area"
Ikeas floor plan is frustrating AF. I know exactly what I want when I turn up so I don't have to spend another second in that store, but no, you have to walk through the place to get to the warehouse area. Yes I've been requested that I can't walk through here, I have to walk through the store…rarely shop at ikea for this reason.
There are some shortcuts. You don't need to walk through to whole thing if you know exactly where it is.
Saves you 80% of walking time.
The shortcuts still mean you're walked well over a km through the store, I bee line for them every time, I know where they are.
@AsukaST: I haven't been in probably 2 years, but last I went when I tried to go that route was told unless I had paid CnC I had to walk via the top floor to get to the warehouse area.
@teereb: If it was 2 years ago, my guess is that was probably due to Covid restrictions?
perhaps they wanted people to move one way only just like chemist wearhouse did.
In Melbourne they just shut down the whole store for months during lock down so it wasn't an issue.
In regular times, there is a small lane, the width is similar to Coles/WW entry, in the middle of checkouts
where you can walk towards from the crowd and straight to the warehouse area, or turn right to the entrance of the ground floor.
the walks scheme is horrendously bad though. would be lot lot better if it was like a map.
I know at my local store on top of the normal shortcuts, there is also a shortcut directly from the entry to the start of the bottom floor, and a second one directly to the warehouse area behind checkouts.
exactly. I always enter the store from checkouts.
Then either look for the items from the wearhouse or turn right straight to where the kitchen items are.
I walk less in IKEA than Kmart.
Really hate Kmart where they put the checkouts at the middle of the store.
Still not sure why you need to pay for Click & Collect in the first place.
it saves you time/ costs ikea time
"Usually IKEA charges $5 handling fee for a Click-and-Collect order."
Are you for real
are Ikea owned by Ticketmaster?
what's worse is if they cancel your c&c order for whatever reason, they think they can keep that $5 fee when they haven't even picked out the item prior to cancellation.
glad i paid by paypal so i could open a case and get my money back.
Wow, how generous. Ikea has such amazing deals /s
Ikea. No deal
So for online orders the store is potentially getting a sale they wouldn't have otherwise had - targeting people that wouldn't drive to their store.
For a click and collect order, they are losing the opportunity to up-sell a customer walking through their store, AND they have to spend time picking an order off the shelf AND they have to have a facility in place for the collection of said orders.
Click and collect is a convenience for consumers, and a cost for businesses, and it doesn't seem that unreasonable to me that you'd have to pay for it. (Not that I do :P).
I mean from a business perspective I agree with you, but in reality its silly to charge for click and collect, it should be baked into the "cost" of the products you are selling such as credit card fees etc that you eat normally as a business.
No deal
I was after some LADDA but not with $5 C&C
Went via Amazon with free delivery to my house.
Ikea will be losing out on some sales due to this, plus it should never cost for C&C, it brings people to your shop…..
My $500 gift card expired during the lockdown, and it is not accepted online, they refuse to extend it. Never buy Ikea again.
essential shopping?
This should be normal free service, maybe with min $50 spend.
how about you just go there and head straight to the warehouse… no waiting around for click and collect..
No deal. Was $80 a few days ago!
No deal.
Should be a free service as with pretty much every retailer.
Perhaps IKEA should spend some of their tax avoidance savings on this …
I go to Ikea for the exercise and I reward myself with Swedish meatballs!
We went to Ikea in Shanghai and had Swedish meatballs.
We actually did buy patio furniture for a relative who was living there at the time.
Thank you iKEA for the privilege of allowing me to purchase your products and drive to your store to pick them up, without charging me for my time and effort in doing so.
No deal. I don't know any retail outlets that charge me money to pick up an item ordered online, except for Ikea. C&C should always be free.