We just moved again and bought a lot of decor and essentials again from IKEA to furnish our apartment. I love IKEA. For all the bad parts of the experience of shopping there in person, there's all the perks of getting modern, cool designs without going into debt forever. I don't mind investing in essentials. But IKEA is the best for everything else. This time around, we made about 4-5 trips to get and return things. And, as a whole, it wasn't too bad. I don't mind the quiet drive there. And I definitely suggest you plan a midday work week trip because weekends are hell. And here are some more IKEA courtesy tips from me: - I love kids. Don't bring them with you to hang out at IKEA. Please. Your kids hate it. We hate it. (Or do, but put them in the daycare) - Do not stop to check your list in the middle of an aisle (step to the side) - Do not stop to look at furniture in the middle of the aisle (step to the side) - Do not walk clumped into large groups of three or more in the middle of the aisle (I'm talking to you, extended family of 12, shopping together at IKEA for some god forsaken reason...) - Do not leave your cart blocking an aisle I know a lot of this seems obvious. But just go to IKEA on a Saturday and tell me anyone shopping there understands common courtesy. LOL. read more

Getting food at IKEA is basically a mandatory ritual when you make it there. There is certainly nothing fancy about the IKEA food/cafeteria, but it is strangely good. Oh, and CHEAP. You can get things like lingonberry juice and pear juice and classics like Swedish meatballs and cordon bleu. And at the end of your journey through the giant retail warehouse, you can get two hot dogs and a soda for 2$. The store itself....well it's a giant home furnishings store. Not much else to say....except that it is crazy busy on weekends. So be prepared for long lines. read more

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Be careful on self check out!! You may end up with a duplicate charge and it will be such as hassle getting your money back.Even if the cashier tells you to tap again don't do it. read more

We have purchased so much stuff from this IKEA in the past year! 3 bookcases (2 w/glass doors), 2 console tables, 2 dressers, 1 kitchen table w/chairs (intended for outdoor use but works perfect for us both in and out), and 1 awesomely cheap plant (growing very nicely all summer)? I think the meatballs must keep drawing me back, perhaps altering my brain chemistry. Some assembly required, of course. And when I say some, I mean that you've got to really enjoy building stuff when you shop at IKEA. Fortunately, I do. Had one mishap in all of that though. Managed to break one tiny metal part. My bad. Will hopefully be able to get a replacement. Thankfully, it's not a vital part, and we're procrastinators. Nobody would probably ever notice unless I wrote a Yelp review. Um, oops! Hahaha! The lines are almost always long and we're not talking Ethan Allen quality here (which we also own), so 4 stars it is. Not bad at all though, especially for the price. Further, it's a clean store (including the bathrooms), and I can't pass on the meatballs in their restaurant. Two thumbs up! P.S. The money tree plant I bought was extremely healthy when I bought it earlier this year. It was SO cheap! It is much bigger now, and it is still looking just as healthy! We put it in a bigger pot with new potting soil the day it came home. It gets 2 cups of water once per week and some fertilizer once a month (during summer only). So far, so good! 10 stars for the plant. It's better than practically perfect. It IS perfect!! They don't have a huge plant selection, but what they do have is well cared for and usually awesome. read more

IKEA - Our thriving IKEA plant! - Furniture Stores Near Me - Renton, Washington

All we wanted was a couch delivered to us. Our first choice for delivery online was two weeks out. We ordered it and two weeks came, but then the truck drivers come and tell me that they are missing a piece. I was told to call a number, but apparently the queues are so bad, that it doesn't even put you in a queue to wait to have your call answered. Then we decide to go in person and have to wait two hours to speak to someone. They said they put in an order for the item, we stand in the delivery line to set up the delivery for same day, we go home and we wait and nothing. Not only that, but we go online and see that our order can not even be found. All we wanted to do was to track the order, just to find out we wasted our whole day waiting for an order that doesn't even exist. This is a horrible experience. Definitely enough to never order anything else from this place and to advise all others to avoid ikea at all costs. read more

Chaos. Way overwhelming. Couldn't get out when I needed to leave. Products were in the wrong spot and I ended up getting the wrong size mattress. Went back to return it and the line was LONG and the reps were SLOW read more

75% of the things I liked ended up being out of stock when I went to get them. Big waste of time. Even when I set up restock notifications the items are sold out again the very same day. Why do they only stock enough item to last 1 day then it's sold out again for another month before the cycle repeats? read more

Don't waste your time, they don't want your money. Everything is available on the app, for pickup, delivery, click and collect up until you get to checkout then all of a sudden it's unavailable but they somehow have 12 available for click and collect, i guess they don't want the $500 you planned on spending. They are so frustrating, oh and don't even waste your time going there to look, everything you want is on display but is unavailable, but it says it's available on the app and website!!! Just don't waste your time. It's a headache. Go spend your money elsewhere. read more

Excuse me, Renton IKEA? Made a liar out of me on my previous review. Many shopping trips done at this location and the last time I went birthed a nightmare. What their 1-888# couldn't do for me from Feb-Jun, they did for me in a matter of hours. After hearing the locations were opening back up, I got a hold on the direct phone number for this location and spoke to a few managers. Within hours they had the replacement item with my name on it, ready to take it's place in my home. I'm happy with this resolution. read more

Prepare to stand in line for a long time. IKEA has apparently figured out that the best way to increase profits is by understaffing the checkout lanes. Despite having 30 (yes 30) checkout lanes I've never seen more than eight open at a time, and as I wrote this there are only four open. Each of the four open lanes has an average of seven parties waiting to check out; my wait time will exceed 15 minutes just to get up to the cashier. Hey IKEA, Amazon carries competing products for all of the items in my shopping cart. Guess where I'll be taking my business next time. read more

IKEA - If you look closely you'll see folks lined up deep on the right. Cashiers are on the left side. - Furniture Stores Near Me - Renton, Washington

We enjoy all of our IKEA visits. This location was new to our family. This place was much busier. The seating area for good was stacked, and long line was formed. We will try to arrive here again in the future to enjoy play time and coffee. read more

IKEA - Time for some family adventures! Great place to listen to creativity! Onward :) - Furniture Stores Near Me - Renton, Washington

Gotta love IKEA. People come here for different reasons: design inspiration, easy to put together furniture, Swedish meatballs (I kid not). I've now been to IKEA in different states and countries but you know when you go there, you'll find similar items so there's a familiarity to it when you go into the building. Mind you, the store is huge. Unless you know what you're looking for you can get lost in the mystical showrooms for hours just wondering how you can squeeze in that extra desk or how to prop up your bed for additional space. So I've been (fortunately and perhaps unfortunately) been on the IKEA greenhouse kick. Apparently IKEA makes these show cabinets that when modified can become an indoor greenhouses. The popularity of these "greenhouses" has been fueled by the pandemic as people grew their houseplant collection. As you get deeper in the weeds (pun intended), you start investing into these plants that just require temperature/humidity controlled environments. So for those of us who don't have yard space (or money!) to build Jeff Bezos glass houses on our property, we turn to these space saving pieces of furniture to care for and display our plants. I dare you to search this through google, Instagram and facebook. You'll find that this trend has been quite popular around the world. Anyways, no where in Seattle will there be enough space to have an IKEA so you'll have to travel out side a bit to find it. If you're really trying to save time, what you can do is do your shopping online, find the location of the pieces you're looking for and head straight to the pick up area. If you don't know what you're wanting to buy just yet, then take some time, plan your morning to stroll through the show rooms. I promise you, you'll have a lovely time (I always do!). If you come later in the day, you can also pick up lunch here. Remember how I mentioned the Swedish meatballs? Well there's actually a food area where you can pick up some Swedish delights. During meal times, they will actually cook up things for you so you can buy it hot and ready. Like everything else, if you just want some meatballs to take home, they have them nicely packaged up in the frozen section and you can make them yourself whenever you want it. Renton is a bit out of the way, but heading over there and picking it up is much easier than waiting for something to be delivered. Frankly, their delivery service is not only pricey but does take weeks before you'll see it arrive on your doorstep. That being said, their in-store inventory and online ordering is different. Just because it's unavailable online or in store doesn't mean that the other doesn't carry it. Keep that in mind. If this IKEA were closer, I might actually be there every day (something I should really talk to a therapist about). If you haven't been before and you just like simple design, you should take time to head over to the IKEA store. read more

It's a good place to be the masks are not that bad we have to line with it so let's make the best of it my team dont love r To ware marks but we do it so your mom and my mom don't die for the coved 19 so suck is up butter cup and have a safe day say home if you can read more

Okay if I didn't love this store after shopping there yesterday I might give it a lower score... They were packed... PRO: as always it is a great way to get inspiration. Good price... Varieties galore... you get your exercise... Great food court (if you can get to it) CON: most times very busy... Waited 20 minutes for a flat cart to pull boxes...I hate the new location to buy food products used to be part of the flow.. now it is after check out and the line is horrible... food court line is sooooooooooooo long Total love hate relationship... read more

IKEA - Always a lot of exercise walking through IKEA... I am tired - Furniture Stores Near Me - Renton, Washington

The new IKEA is fantastic! Clean, modern, bright and IKEA as ever! Parking was easy on a Tuesday morning, I imagine some peak times it gets full and you end up having to crawl around for a space, but yesterday morning was great. We entered to find all the carts, but unfortunately you can't take the carts upstairs any way aside from the elevator. I was hoping they'd have one of those cool escalators that you can latch carts into, they have them in England - so fun! But not here. Just regular ol' elevator. I wish the carts were just upstairs so you wouldn't have to get in the elevator, but hey ho! The restaurant is much nicer here than in the old IKEA, it's bright, open and looking out over the parking lot, which as lame a view as that is, is much better than not having any windows like before! Product and customer service wise - it's IKEA, and no change of location will change anything there! read more

IKEA - Furniture Stores Near Me - Renton, Washington

I don't know why I decided to give this place another chance. We made the mistake of ordering a dinning table/chairs, two dressers, one bunk bed and one pull out type of couch for the upstairs office. We needed delivery as we were moving into our home, things were arriving damaged, delivery was weird because they outsource it, it was a nightmare. Dinning table is not used often, which is good as it does not seem sturdy. Dinning chairs, very light weight and cheaply made, one broke already, the chairs I wanted were not in stock, I kept checking back and not one person on the floor said more will be delivered to the new store, always got a "I don't know response", at the time they were building the new IKEA so OF course more are coming. The dressers are fine, they are for kids and are holding up thankfully. The bunk started squeaking within months of purchasing, so regret that purchase. The pull out couch always showed up cracked in the drawer, we got sick of them bringing new ones, so we kept it, they gave a discount, the crack doesn't affect the use of the couch but the idea of buying something new and it coming broke every time was SO frustrating, don't even get me started on returning the broken couches, they set it up but the new delivery people were so confused and eventually had to send a new company to pick up. Fast forward 6 years later, got a nightstand because it matches one of the dressers in our basement. Get it all put together, except the last drawer, as usual the directions are always a joke, nothing is labeled but the bag of screws. Nothing is lined up but I know how to put together furniture and did not expect much. The pieces of wood in the last drawer were not drilled at all. I reached out to customer service, great experience there, they got in touch with me right away. Was very impressed, I sent pictures of the boards without the drilled holes and the the picture in the booklet of what I don't have. They sent stuff out immediately but I got the exact same thing I already have...I need this board and will honestly say we will never step foot in there again. read more

Wow... Worst customer service ever. I filled out the online customer service request form, but never ever received a reply, even after weeks had passed. The "customer service" phone line rarely works and frequently drops your call, and/or doesn't even let you into the system to speak to a real person; it just rudely and abruptly disconnects you. Trying to returning a table that was damaged before I even got it has been a complete waste of time, literally hours of my life wasted. Despite the fact that the table has a huge crack running the entire length of it, one rep even tried to tell me that the table was not damaged and that I would need to pay for the shipping return service... very bogus! I chose to return via the "shipping service" where a shipping company comes to your place to pick up your items for return... Very, very conveniently they only tell you when they'll be there only the day prior, and you need to be available for a 4 hour block... seriously who does that in this day and age? Is Ikea running on Cold War era mainframes? The nice extra was that the shipping company was 1 hour late, oopsies... After over 1 week, finally received my refund, but they tastefully decided not to refund the $5 "Picking Fee" (presumably since I used the Click and Collect online feature). It must have covered the damage done to the table before I picked it up, as well as the shipping company being 1 hour late to pick up my return. Thanks for not robbing me completely Ikea - I appreciate the compassion. Don't waste your time here. Such a terrible business absolutely does not deserve your money. I hope that they go out of business forever. read more

Sent them emails on haul away service if we bought a new refrigerator and had it delivered. Never hear back from them. There are several appliance stores in our area. IKEA you just lost a sale, but giving you never responded to our email, it appears you don't care. This is no way to do business in an economy that is going south. read more

It's Ikea. I get it. You will be jostled, overwhelmed, and woozy from volatile chemicals in the air. But the promise of cheap, modern furniture is DIVINE and irresistible. We purchased two Kallax shelves, 4x4 cubes. These are arguably the best pieces they make. Durable, versatile, indestructible, and stylish. Yes yes yes!!! Room divider, storage, bookshelves--all of the above. No, they will not leave your apartment without a crane operator, but that's fine. Stay! They were inexpensive, and we can get more. I want to shout out to customer service. The woman who helped me was fantastic. However, the process sucked. I waited hours, my fault, it was a weekend. Go on a weekday. Eat some yummy pastry. read more

Why is the food market section in front of the checkouts and nowhere is there a sign telling that you need to go back thru the checkouts to purchase those food items. And several staff members standing around up front that were not helpful at all. ​ read more

0 stars for masking. Tons and tons of people not wearing any. Hate to be that person but come on. It was like an umasked zoo there.

Good stuff. Despite low prices, their stuff is pretty durable (ok some of their outdoors wooden furniture ages). Pretty much everything from my apartment was bought there 7 years ago. I always get the meatball combo when I go and they offer free coffee/tea for people who join the free friends club. read more

IKEA - Swedish meatballs - Furniture Stores Near Me - Renton, Washington

IKEA is from the minds of geniuses looking at the thought put into just their bookshelves with all the combinations you can mix with shelves, colors and usages. I think my closets have these bookcases installed and they hold my cloths. That said, I have a love hate relationship with IKEA. When I hear about going to IKEA I get the dread of walking around in back and forth maze lost and trapped for at least 2 hours of my life before I can escape. In the maze, there's a oasis of the food court where you can get Swedish meatballs or the kiddie chicken strip meal and rest for a bit before finding how to get our of here. My back is not hurting just thinking about lugging out the boxes and thinking about getting this home where I have to do the assembly. There's something that so impresses me that all the rest of the furniture industry is so sucky and overpriced that the majority of people would rather get this uniform prefabricated particle board furniture, pull it from the warehouse, take it home and assemble it yourself. read more

IKEA - More ikea cr&p - Furniture Stores Near Me - Renton, Washington

Late on a Friday. The store was clean , people were smiling, and everything was smooth. Nice late in what is always a long day for IKEA workers. We had a coffee and cookie snack. read more

very slow service (especially for the return/exchange line at least a 30 minute wait). we only had to go to the store in person because we were not given all of the parts in our delivery order & was missing a screw cover in one of the sets read more

We don't get over here much but I always note a few things: 1) The stuff often looks better than I expect 2) The stuff costs more than expected given I have to put it together 3) The physical place is gigantic! 4) A la Costco, we usually walk out with more than what we initially came in for This enormous spot with more furniture than you can shake a stick at and there are more styles than you ever thought possible. Want rustic? Got it! Interested in something modern? Check! How about something that looks like it's from the 80s, that doesn't quite qualify as old-school yet? Absolutely! I'm most surprised with the number of different styles available and the number of them that seem like something that would work. I guess that's why it's IKEA and my house is not... The final section that you walk through is predominantly kitchen utensils, it's amazing how a bottle with The reusable A touch too it always looks better when it's sold off of a pallet with 200 others that are the same. Great place to come whether you're looking for storage items, kitchen items or just an entirely new look for your house. It will probably cost more than you expect it to, but is certainly cheaper than other places. And if you really have a hankering to put together a couch, this is definitely your spot! read more

So I bought a dresser at IKEA. It's small 3 drawers. Well it has 120 screws and 36 steps to assemble. I am back to return it. They have a sign it says "please remain here until called forward". So I wait 10 Minutes. A customer tells me they have an online wiat list for returns. A 30 minute wait. IKEA blows !!! I will never, ever set foot in an IKEA ever again. 0/100 stars. read more

Review #1000! Not sure what the low reviews are for. This IKEA is laid out similar to all the other IKEAs I've been to. It was also pretty clean and organized. The parking lot is pretty big too. I had a pretty good experience here. read more

Fuck you ikea Sincerely to whom it may concern my friend ordered a couch from you late at night like a bunch of dildos and informed her that a piece of her couch wasn't being shipped and what part of the couch may you ask is missing the whole fucking backside she can't order it again and your team hasn't said if they'll ship it or not so fuck you cause my friend infact paid for a long ass ottoman! read more

Inventory is wrong! Some things don't have tags that tell you if they're unavailable, you'll know when it's unavailable when you go downstairs and it's not there. Staff needs better training on customer service. Sanitizing hand wipes that are next to the carts were all empty. Drive over 2 hours to buy some new playroom furniture for my daughter and everything we wanted was out so that was a huge let down. IKEA in the Midwest is 1000x better, with inventory, and especially customer service. read more

This is your standard Ikea. This particular Ikea is designed just like the rest but the floor displays are geared mainly for North America. What to expect: - High traffic hours are literally crazy inside and out. Parking is straight-forward, Park farther and walk. It won't hurt pushing a cart across the parking lot and its safer than braving your way trying to squeeze into a lane or a spot. - In support of the initial point above, please take into consideration that you're dealing with Washington drivers. Take caution while in the parking lot and you're not safe until you hit the freeway. - There are in-house sales going on that are not listed on the Ad or anywhere else. I recommend coming in early and make use of your time properly. - The Cafe, its pretty apparent that the workers hate their life. Yes, I've stared down into the eye of the guy who gave me my plate. Thank goodness that most of the items came pre-cooked/frozen so its a pretty no brainer process... except for the vegetables, ours were soggy. - You can't beat the prices. If you're hating because you're in-line forever or there's too many people then you completely don't have a clue on how Ikea works. Ikea has a system placed to ensure that the consumers go through a certain flow of things with the most minimal assistance possible. Don't expect someone to welcome you and walk you through every exhibit. If you're unable to navigate through ikea and deal with the madness then perhaps you should be better off somewhere. Bring patience and strength if you planning a trip. Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor. read more

IKEA of Renton What a joke.was asked to leave because I have my handgun on my hip and someone called and complained. So if you open carry dont go to IKEA with it on ur hip you'll be escorted out of the building... first and last time I'll ever go there.it is my God given right to carry. And no one will take that from me. Yes I'll leave your establishment but I'll never be back and will never have a good thing to say about it read more

Your website will not allow me to conclude the sale. What - you are now in the "Frustrate the Customer" business? Your site auto-filled the wrong zip code, and so will not accept my city. I tried to change the zip code with the 'Edit' function, but I just got kicked out of the buying mode. Please undo your auto-fill feature or put the correct zip code in there! I live in Shoreline - 98133. NOT 98020 !!! read more

Do you want to waste 46 minutes of your life waiting in line to return something? Then come to this Ikea. And note that this is on a Friday morning, not a Saturday/Sunday when I imagine it would be even worse. I'm posting this on behalf of my wife who wasted 46 minutes of her life trying to return something, still un-opened and brand new. Ikea staff are so nice and polite they care more about having a fun conversation with people returning products than the people who are waiting in line. Ikea needs to respect the time of its customers and make the returns process faster and easier. read more

When I think of a great retail experience, staff should help and guide customers to the products they need, and the payment process should be easy. The staff at this IKEA were great, but the location has a lot of opportunity when it comes to checkout. Lines on weekend evenings are over 30 minutes long. That might not sound too bad until you add in the screaming children who don't seem to appreciate the wait much either. read more

Let's hope the person or persons who designed this store doesn't also design any IKEA furniture. Huge parking lot, huge store...but when you walk through the huge front door you stop in your tracks trying to figure out where your suppose to go!?! There's a large doorway on your left..but wait those are cash registers where you check out...so maybe this escalator that's on my right (which happened to be broke down the day I went) but how do you get a shopping cart up an escalator?...woooh look there are big elevators over by this smaller entrance to the right kind of behind the escalator. Then you see the kitchen wears...this must be where we start..but what's upstairs? Dumbest design ever. The fun part about walking though IKEA is to look at the showrooms (upstairs) while picking and choosing what items you like and putting it in your cart...which is all downstairs!! But wait until you get to the cash registers....watch out for the abandoned shopping carts where desperate soles gave up hope. We choose the shortest lane...it was all the way to the left...probably 8 people in front of us...but still half as short as the other lanes....and it still took 25 minutes! Btw..bring your own bag or you end up having to buy an IKEA bag. Now you've paid and swore to yourself you'd never come back here again...and you remember why you love Amazon soooooo much. Then you walk buy the snack bar where all of the chocolate bars and sweet gummies and crackers and cookies are..wth!! I'm not standing in another f#@cking line to buy some delicious goodies!! Why in the hell aren't these also available on the other side of the gates of hell (aka cash register line) ??? This store sucks, I left feeling sad and disappointed...it's not the Ikea experience i remember at all...totally blew read more

IKEA is my favorite new place for "window shopping". The store is massive, the parking lot crazy, and the goods affordable. This is definitely an ideal location for decorating or remodeling a home. I could literally spend hours wandering around the store before getting tired of it. Employees are friendly and fast. Bathrooms clean. IKEA even offers groceries and a dining area. My favorite IKEA item is the long handled shoehorn. Long, durable, and easy to use for $2. During my visit, I stocked up on for shoehorns for work (occupational therapy) because patients keep stealing them from my place of employment. Best shoehorn ever. read more

Well, what can I say, it's IKEA. The new store is pretty cool but the new restaurant is much nicer than the old one. It's pretty high tech too. All the windows with the natural lighting is nice and I didn't have high expectations but the Swedish Meatballs with mashed potatoes were good but the vegetables were cold. I did like the lingonberry sauce though. I haven't eaten @ IKEA for at least 10 years and it may be 10 years before I eat there again but I wanted to experience the new IKEA and it was worth it. read more

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There are only two people processing returns. There are 52 people in line. I've been here an hour. Absolute joke, you should be ashamed ikea

The bistro downstairs as you exit was closed and had sold out signs across a lot of the items. I was really looking forward to their veggie dogs. There were lots of curtains on the rooms, seems like some rooms were under construction. Our wait was 25 minutes in line to pay. I could hear multiple people in front of us complaining. By the time we reached the front, the line had gotten worse than when we first entered it. They need to hire more cashiers, period. read more