IKEA Sunday openings, Eching and Brunnthal stores - Munich

Hi

IKEA stores are allowed to open on four Sundays per year. Note that this is not just for browsing, but also for buying. They call it a "verkaufsoffener Sonntag" and you can shop till the queues do your head in.

The next Sunday opening is at IKEA Eching, Sunday May 29th, 2005, from noon to 5pm.

IKEA Eching is not open to shoppers this Sunday. Only Brunnthal - the one in the South, not the one near the airport.

Katrina

If anyone is planning to go without car... make sure to check the Ikea bus is running from the S-Bahn. It normally doesn't operate on Sundays.

Oh cool! Not because I wanna shop at Ikea, necessarily. But could this be the start of a trend?

Will lots of other stores soon be following suit and also opening on Sundays? Will Munich finally catch up with the times? If so, it'd be very good news indeed.

Is this a one off? How have they managed that? Could come in useful when I move next month. Thanks

According to the following post (originally about Walmart), companies can open four sundays per year. So I guess it's a one-off.

I was there today coincidentally. They have some Sunday bargains - bedstuff for 1 Euro etc.

You don't know how excited this news has made me!

This is great news. In this wonderful weather, I can't think of anything I would rather be doing than aimlessly pushing a trolley around a bland superstore! They should do this every Sunday, then I wouldn't have to waste my weekends spending time with friends, playing sports, going for a walk, visiting museums or any other equally unpleasant cultural activity which most people in Britain sensibly avoid.

Conform, Consume, Obey!

(Anyone recognise the quote?)

To clarify, Ikea Brunnthal is open. I have been there everyday this week getting bits and pieces and have to go back again tomorrow They are advertising special bargains on Sunday, plus some kind of market with Bavarian specialities.

Ikea have done this a few times since I moved here, and I really don't get it. Does this really increase their future sales?

it definitely increases their sunday sales...

Do you know if they've started selling those promised goodies at discounted price? like the NILSBY sofabed?

Hmmm.. I just have checked MVV. As told previously in this forum, bus service is not available on sundays.. So what to do?? Does anyone knows any idea how to reach there without a car??

Jelda

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Jelda,

According to the MVV website you can:

Go on the S6 to Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn (direction Kreuzstrasse)...about 30 minutes
Get the 216 bus from Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn to Hofolding...about 10 minutes

Then apparently it's about a 2 minute walk to Ikea.

I had a look at the PDF network map on the site as well and this looks about right.