Picking up a Hemnes daybed or a Gullaberg dresser no longer requires a walk through a maze of aisles lined with home goods and an almost requisite stop at the cafeteria that serves up meatballs and salmon.
Kendra Buchanan, marketing supervisor for University Book Store, left, and Kim Fredrickson, UBS’s vice president of finance, work at an IKEA computer terminal that allows shoppers to browse the IKEA website. The store is now a pickup point for IKEA orders, eliminating delivery charges.
Packages from IKEA await pickup in the basement warehouse of University Book Store on State Street. A truck brings orders from customers to UBS three times a week. Customers can pick up their items at their convenience during store hours.
IKEA signage has been posted at University Book Store on State Street since May but only in the last month has the Swedish retailer been delivering Madison-area orders to the store.
Officials at University Book Store thought the IKEA orders shipped to their store would be small dorm-style items, like pillows, baskets and kitchen gadgets. But customers are also ordering tables, bookcases and beds.
Carts like these are ubiquitous at IKEA stores but are used in the University Book Store warehouse to hold and transport larger IKEA items shipped to the store for pickup.
Kendra Buchanan, marketing supervisor for University Book Store, left, and Kim Fredrickson, UBS’s vice president of finance, work at an IKEA computer terminal that allows shoppers to browse the IKEA website. The store is now a pickup point for IKEA orders, eliminating delivery charges.
Packages from IKEA await pickup in the basement warehouse of University Book Store on State Street. A truck brings orders from customers to UBS three times a week. Customers can pick up their items at their convenience during store hours.
IKEA signage has been posted at University Book Store on State Street since May but only in the last month has the Swedish retailer been delivering Madison-area orders to the store.
Officials at University Book Store thought the IKEA orders shipped to their store would be small dorm-style items, like pillows, baskets and kitchen gadgets. But customers are also ordering tables, bookcases and beds.
Carts like these are ubiquitous at IKEA stores but are used in the University Book Store warehouse to hold and transport larger IKEA items shipped to the store for pickup.
