Overview
- Doors open at 10am on Thursday, October 9, 2025, in the former Homebase unit at Greyhound Retail Park in Chester.
- The compact site features a showroom and market hall plus The Swedish Bite café serving signature dishes, including a plant-based option.
- Customers can arrange home delivery and free collection of the full IKEA range, use kitchen and bedroom planning services, and access a pre-loved range with returns-for-credit.
- About 35 co‑workers will staff the store, which will operate Monday–Saturday 10:00–20:00 and Sundays 10:30–16:30.
- IKEA positions the Chester site within its UK rollout of smaller, faster-to-open retail-park locations following Harlow and Norwich, alongside recent openings in Brighton and on London’s Oxford Street and a Dundee Plan & Order point to come.