Sunday (10am) - There are two IKEAs within driving distance from me (I don't count the Brooklyn location since I have to cross two rivers to get there), and one is closed on Sundays due to the North Bergen shopping laws. Guess which one everyone goes to on a Sunday to get their new but cheap furniture fix? These are the kind of places that reward the early bird. I came in at 10am on Sunday know what I wanted, headed through the shortcut to the self-serve area and was out in under 30 minutes. Although the lady at the register was on the phone, she quickly scanned my boxes and informed me of the total. I was in and out in no time. I also discovered the holding bins for customers who come alone but are parked far from the store. Great idea! One tip: if you want their (hopefully horseless) meatballs, then show up at 11am to beat the lunch time rush. Mmmmmmm! read more

Pros: -Good, inexpensive furniture. -Interesting shopping experience. -All kinds of cool stuff you did not even know you needed! Cons: -VERY hard to get to unless you use the NJ Turnpike. Very, very few signs to be found ANYWHERE, once dumped off of US 1&9 onto Third-world-quality roads. -Driving in Elizabeth. Elizabeth has some of the worst drivers in all of NJ (and THAT'S saying something). read more

Located right by the lovely Elizabeth Seaport, you are immediately hit with the scent of sea and dead fish when you have to park 3 miles away from the store because of all the people also going to IKEA. So yeah, this IKEA isn't exactly in the best area you could possibly hope for. Like all IKEAs, you get sucked into the maze and you have no chance of escaping. I went here for a big shopping trip, I had to furnish a new apartment. I dragged my dad from section to section and back again as I limped through this IKEA on a busted up foot. I dragged my dad to the cafeteria halfway through the trip so he could get the meatballs. He had never tried them! Well he wasn't very impressed. I, on the other hand, love them. The amazing things you find make the trek to Elizabeth worth it. $600 later, and I had a dresser, night stand, two lamps, kitchen table, book shelf, and one sore foot. read more

The prices are good. I'll give them that. But the proximity to Manhattan and the logistics of getting there are bad, bad, bad. There is a free bus available, but if you're buying anything big, you're going to need to rent a truck for the way back, or just save yourself the trouble of doing bus to nj, truck to ny, truck to nj, bus to ny, and rent yourself a zipcar from the get go. And then you're driving on the famously unintuitive New Jersey Highway System which is not a task for the faint of heart. I made it there successfully once, by luck alone, I think. The other time? Don't ask. Ikea is located very close to the Newark airport. I can best describe the terrain as a scene out of the Omega Man -- sort of a post-apocolyptic wasteland -- except with a giant discount furniture store smack dab in the middle of it all. Welcome to hell. Everything's on sale, but you just might die here. read more

I love this place! Affordable, stylish, and BRIGHT COLORS!!! and word up to the swedish meatballlls.....they are kickin! actually the whole cafeteria rocks! read more

I came to buy a few things and was gonna leave my 6 year old at the smaland play area and because my daughter was an I ch taller than their measuring stick they wouldn't let her enter. I wasnt gonna leave my son alone playing by himself and her crying . Thumbs down ikea...I'm very dissapointed. read more

I had ordered bed and mattress from here. My delivery rescheduled by IKEA 4 times due to various reason and finally i need to cancel it. Customer care service is very poor. I need to stay on call for an hour just to know the status of my order. Very bad service i have seen. I would have given in minus if it is there. read more

Reasonably priced furniture that doesn't look like it came from Art Van. Check. Quirky Scandinavian flare to the typically American shopping-in-a-warehouse experience. Check. Public transportation. Check. Getting that big package home. Shit!!! Seriously though - at least the buses to Elizabeth pick you up and drop you off right at the store, and have the luggage compartment ready to be filled with big, oddly shaped boxes. Try taking the bus to the Paramus, NJ store, and you'll find yourself crossing a highway to find the bus home. One word: crazy highway wasteland hell. Ok, one phrase. Nonetheless, Zipcar is the best way to go. read more

2 stars because I love their food and cafe. I love that you can buy their frozen goods in the market area. I also love their cheap and chic furniture that you won't feel bad about tossing when it's worn. What I dont love are their employees. I went to Ikea today with my family and the lunch lady--actually lunch girl, she was no lady--got upset when I reminded her that I asked for fries and not mashed potatoes just as she was getting ready to put the potatoes on my plate. It was horrifying how she splashed the scooper back into the tray and splashed gravy on my meatballs. Ugh, totally rude, disrespectful, and just horrible. I get it, yup don't like your job. It's not a prison. Take your ass somewhere else where you're not required to be tame. I'll be calling ikea about this during the week as it wasn't the first time that this happened to me. It also creeps me out that the cups and utensils are out for people to touch and take.... They are properly labeled and organized, but sometimes, people don't know how to read and pull up the utensils and return them, or feel around and inspect their glass. Although I like their food, the set up is just not sanitary or beneficial to their business. Get this. I was standing on line to get food.. and this guy reaches over the railing to get a glass for himself.. no big deal right? Well guess what. He didn't pay for the glass to fill with soda. And then it happened about 4 more times until I actually got to my rude lunch server. read more

Getting here is really tricky. If you're not careful, you'll end up going over a bridge and $14 poorer. The exit is 13A, not 13! Also, as another noted, the roads are worse than the drivers. The roads remind me of the cancerous ones in Mexico City, jeez louise. Parking is very accessible and free, with access to a R Us Store and Big Lots from the same area. In the shop, the layout is fairly typical of every IKEA. The staging is pretty well done, and there are all of these nooks and crannies that they deck out like as if they want you to explore every corner. Some products are of great quality, others not so much. Unfortunately, even the forks are Made in China. Nonetheless, not all of the stuff to buy there is just for college kids. In the dining area, there is a nice view of Newark airport, with planes of all kinds taking off and landing. Ideal for the aviation enthusiast, especially if they fancy a plate of Swedish meatballs. With membership, which is free, you can get a free cup of unlimited refillable coffee with the works, sometimes two cups depending on the day of the week. The dining area is slowly turned over as there are one or two employees walking around (slowly) cleaning them. There is a food marketplace on the lower level, for condiments, frozen stuff and the like. There is also IKEA chocolate bars, available in Milk, Dark, and Hazelnut. They are pretty decent, despite the chocolate being made in Spain instead of Germany (Spain's chocolate isn't very good). And at $1 per bar (discount when you buy 3), you cannot really go wrong with getting your chocolate-fix. Besides, they have BARRELS full of the stuff, so you might as well. BTW, $.50 hot dogs and $1 frozen yogurt cones. The hot dog is similar and more sanitary than those in Manhattan. The cones are pretty good, but could use more vanilla. Customer service is pretty decent. I had a problem and a variety of departments communicated to each other well. I'm not sure why some reviewers on here are bashing it, and I'm usually overly critical in that aspect. Overall, a nice experience read more

This is definitely a trip that would take several hours. It is a maze in here (like all Ikeas). However, be on the look out for short cuts (overhead signs) if you want to get out of there or find the restrooms quickly. The employees here are not really nice, they are not really willing to talk to you or help you unless they're standing at the help computer/desk. If you see an employee walking around or stocking, they're usually not very polite or willing to direct you or answer questions. However, they're in the yellow with blue striped polos so they are easy to spot. This Ikea is easy to get to, right of the NJ Turnpike on exit 13A. There is a giant sign right on the NJ Turnpike on the side of the store so you can't miss it. The lay out is organized, they have all the same types of furniture in their designated areas and in between they set up different rooms in the house so one can get an idea of how to set up the room (bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom) using their furniture. The cool thing is that they also have some studios/one bedroom style apartments set up with the number of square feet on the outside to let you know how much furniture/stuff you can actually fit in the space. That's my favorite part. The thing about Ikea is that the prices are low and the quality is also low. So the saying "you get what you pay for, " really applies here. I know people who had their Ikea furniture "melt" when their house got flooded. So don't expect your furniture to last a life time. However, some stuff are decent and modern looking. read more

This review is for the cafe only: I keep hearing about meatballs and meatballs and in Vegas, we have no IKEA so I came here for the meatballs. Yummmmy. My boyfriend got the meatball combo and I got the ribs. I prefer the meatballs personally. The ribs were moist and came off the bone easily but the sauce was a bit sweet for my liking. The corn bread were not as great as Famous Dave's but were typical of cornbread. Had some Southwestern chili with our meal and that was good too. I think for both meals (half rack ribs, corn bread, dozen meatballs, mashed potatoes, soup, and a drink) it came out to be $17. I'd come back to try out the other stuff too. If you want to try the food without spending as much, get a kids meal of the meatballs. I think its about 4-6 meatballs with mashed potatoes and a juicebox for $3.99. Affordable kids meal options. read more

As far soul crushing experiences go, this is not the worst. No one enjoys ikea, that's just a fact of life: like how gravity causes things to fall, or how plants turn sunlight into sugar. They have a huge parking space and loading area for when you arrive and load up your car. What troubles me is the high number of children that run around unattended during school hours. It's almost as if their parents left them here to fend for themselves on tiny meatballs and frozen yogurt. On the plus side we found out if one piece of wood is damaged when you get home and open it, they will replace that piece without requiring you to bring in all the other pieces. I hope once I have everything I need I will never have to come back here. Life is too short to try to pretend like you know how to pronounce Swedish words.o read more

I can't believe I've been living my life, not knowing how awesome IKEA is. This place is really for new home/apartment owners who have no idea how to furnish a place on their own......which kinda makes up a large group of people including myself. Its a huge, massive, warehouse full of home furnishings of all kinds. They've got tons of great display rooms that help give you ideas of how to furnish your place. Everything is cheap, which im sure reflects the quality of the product, but if you're not looking for something that you plan on handing down to your kids in the future, IKEA provides a lot of products for short-term solutions. read more

I love this place. It has everything I need always. The price can be reasonable to sometimes a little pricey but the quality is certainly there. This location is my favorite bc I feel the layout is better organized than the one in Paramus. I also feel this one has more options and have more things in stock than Paramus does. They also have great food at an awesome price! We shared the Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and piece of garlic bread $8.00. Which also came with a beverage. We got the Swedish fruit drink but forgot the real to it but it's really good too. I really like coming here but the traffic can be annoying coming from the NJTP. There's a lot of parking and check out can be a breeze at times. Staff are pretty friendly from what I've experienced so far. read more

IKEA - Swedish Meatballs w/ mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, garlic bread, and a beverage. $8.00 (ikea membership) - Furniture Stores Near Me - Elizabeth, New Jersey

Unfortunately Yelp doesn't allow zero stars. I got my whole apartment furniture in my first week in the US and also had purchased a pickup,delivery and assembly. All along I was told that everything would be done on the date earlier decided. On the day of the delivery I was shocked to see only few items delivered. The customer service is so pathetic that you need to wait at least an hour before someone answers your call and the best answer you get from them is "we have emailed the store and they would reach out to you in 48 hrs". While you hope that the entire experience with shopping be seamless this turns out to be exactly opposite with no one (IKEA, delivery company) aware of what's going on. AVOID AT ALL COST read more

Worst ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These people never picks up the phone!!!!!!!!!!!! I had my mattress delivered by their home delivery service and they broke it. The delivery men covered up damaged part with other items so we found the hole after those men left!!!!!! Trying to call Ikea during working hour but no one answered the phone. Surely the worst servicer ever. If I can give them minus stars, it would def be minus 5 stars!!!!!!! read more

The store is fabulous, but was a bit messy when we came. The meatballs in the food court are a must for every visit. Don't let the amazing Cinnabon smell pull you in when checking out, they smell amazing but aren't worth the calories. read more

IKEA - Meatballs! - Furniture Stores Near Me - Elizabeth, New Jersey

Customer service here is the worst I've ever experienced! Came here to purchase a quick gift. This location has the laziest employees; huddled for an hour while I waited for three small items. This is what ikea's employees get paid to do on company time. Furniture is great but I'll continue to purchase from another location: Ikea in NYC and New Haven, CT. Have MUCH better employees. read more

IKEA - IKEA's employees working hard on company's time. The two circled in red did not want to inform me who was the supervisor. AN HOUR TALKING! - Furniture Stores Near Me - Elizabeth, New Jersey

Dear Elizabeth Ikea I love you But not for your furniture Though you are very good at that Miss Ikea, You have seduced me With those frozen cakes Almond torte... mmmmmmmm... And lingonberry preserves.... Brooklyn store, open already!!! read more

Over the years, especially post college, IKEA was good to me, providing the necessities of a home at an affordable price. IKEA makes cheap furniture - this is both a plus and minus. No one comes here expecting to find unique accent pieces to proudly display in their homes/offices, but certain finds may surprise you. We bought a wall size Eiffel Tower canvas print for our guest bathroom. It took up most of the entire wall and looks amazing. Food court - long lines on weekends, but I got to eat salmon for 6 bucks! It ain't no Jean George, but heck, I ate it all, AND with PLASTIC UTENSILS! read more

Not good service at all! Employees seem annoyed when you ask them a question! Don't even try to return something! You stand on line forever as employees smugly work as slowly as possible!!! No thank you. I'll pay higher price elsewhere. Also the headboard we purchased on full side bed frame was scratched. The screws were missing as someone probably used and returned it. Very bad service and poor quality control. Never again IKEA! You lost a customer! read more

Why do I do this? I do not know why I think going to IKEA on a Saturday or any day for that matter is a good idea. 1. I HATE that I have to walk through the entire showroom to find what I need. 2. Why can I not order on-line? 3. They have a self-checkout yet people still take too long and do not know how to use the scanner.. really did you not play supermarket when you were little? 4. Why am I paying upwards of $500 for something that I then have to out together? 5. Renovations .. NOT cool and also not cool that I know need to go to another building to pick up my purchase. And yet .. I still page through the catalog find something i like and think .. this time it will be different! read more

I think I live too close to this IKEA because I am here way too often. I wish there were more lines open so it wouldn't take so long to check out, or have an 'express lane' for people who have small items. There have been so many times I go in for a few items and I end up leaving because I don't want to wait 20 minutes for a few items. Easy to direct and the people who work on the floor have always been pretty helpful for me. I hate that you can't take the carts to your car though, the 'storage' spots don't always work and when you're by yourself it kind of stinks. read more

I moved to NYC about a month ago and have been here twice already. The free shuttle on the weekends from Port Authority to Ikea is great! Ikea is chaotic, but that's to be expected. What's annoying is that if you know you already want furniture delivered, you still have to pick out and get all the self service furniture yourself. Put in a cart, pay for it, and then take it to the home delivery area. So retarded! You should be able to jot down the items you want, pay for it, and then have them get it and deliver it to you. What's worth it is the $99 delivery for 15 items (regardless of size and weight of the items). It's an extra $10 to go to Manhattan. But you get the furniture within the week and they deliver to your apt. Totally worth it. B/c if you rent a car it's close to $100 and you may not be able to fit everything in the car. And you have to pay for gas and tolls. The other thing that is great is that tax is only 3.5% in Elizabeth! If you're planning to go to Ikea, just be ready to spend your entire afternoon there. At least they have food that is actually not bad at all and not to mention cheap. read more

Have been coming to this location for years whenever I needed cheap furniture. I really really like this location and am very familiar with it. The bathrooms next to the restaurant are pretty clean and they have cute little mini sinks and mirrors for kids. I thought it was adorable. There are various shortcut doors (they look like restaurant kitchen doors and at first it seemed like they led to employee areas and such from the looks) to get to the bathrooms or to access other parts of the store instead of having to traverse the whole path. This location also offers a free shuttle from Port Authority in NYC, which runs on the every half hour. The parking lot is super huge and it's near the airport. I really like the feeling of having big open space and you can see planes flying in and out. Anyway, I love this Ikea! read more

Most of the employees nowadays all have the same character/attitude issues anywhere. Since the employers specially THE BIG ONES don't care about their employees, so in return why would the employees care about their work performance. I do enjoy their CAFE/RESTAURANT. AFFORDABLE AND MODERATELY GOOD FOOD. You do get bad service but that's what you get nowadays everywhere that's probably why more consumers are shopping online. Don't expect SERVICE WITH A SMILE ATTITUDE NOWADAYS SO YOU DON'T GET UPSET!!!!! read more

What do you get when you cross budget-conscious nordic furniture, newark airport, swedish meatballs, and lingonberry sauce? No...no...thats right...IKEA!!! Ikea is where the budget-challenged, (possibly) style-conscious, and lifestyle seeking consumer goes for all their furnishing, decorative,storage, and/or houseware needs. Dont forget to stop for an obligatory mid shopping day lunch break here in their cafeteria and dream of your next trip to Sweden as you watch the planes take off from newark. read more

I had a really great experience at this location. After getting jerked around at the Brooklyn location enough times we tried driving out to Jersey. Wow. We found everything we wanted, including the curtains that Brooklyn was out of (some guy on Ebay tried to scam me over) AND we found the chair set we wanted in the as-is section in great shape. Score. Even the restaurant was way nicer. But I wrote this review to thank an associate in the as-is section. We were getting blown off on the phone, by email, and at the Brooklyn store concerning a hardware question and the moment we asked Luis at this store he immediately found the answer and made sure I had everything I needed. Maybe I'm a pessimist, but I was so surprised and it made our day. Good work guys. read more

Just got back from my second visit this week, as I also happened to visit this particular location yesterday. I'll summarize both quickly: I caught the weekend shuttle bus yesterday with the hopes of finally trying their much toted 99 cent breakfast. Made it there at about 11:20 AM., and breakfast officially ends at 11. Bummer. But not to worry - even if I wasn't feeling like chancing the Swedish meatballs (especially after that horse meat scare) - I did try out their Baby Back Rib combo with fries and cornbread. For $7.99 that half slab was pretty big and filling, and put Chili's version in their 2 for $20 combo to shame easily. Washed it down with a glass or two of lingonberry juice mixed with Sierra Mist, with a lovely piece of apple cake on the side. The apple cake actually made the trip worth it as I saw this the very first time I ever visited a few years back but didn't think to try it. After brunch/lunch, I went downstairs and ended up in their Marketplace section, which is like cheapskate heaven. Long story short, I ended up buying three sets of these cardboard storage boxes that were clearance priced at $3.49 while desperately trying not to buy anything else. Not a fun ride/walk home from the bus lugging those things around. The checkout line was long, but it went fairly fast and I was on my way...until I saw the food market right outside the checkout. I ended up browsing through it as well and ended up buying a frozen applecake, pepperkakor (ginger thins), and a few sparkling apple & elderflower drinks. Damn my lack of will power. As for today's visit, it started off bumpy at first. The NJ Transit bus I took ended up in a minor accident with one of those independent small commuter buses, so we waited nearly an hour before finally moving. Finally got to try the 99 cent breakfast, or so I thought. The server placed french toast sticks on my tray alongside the home fries, eggs, and bacon, and that made it a "deluxe breakfast", if you can call it that. I also added a bagel, apple cake, and a drink to the mix and my total easily ballooned up to $7.75. No problem. I was at least aware that additional breakfast items would cost more, but since their website doesn't list everything on the menu or the specific in store pricing, I was a bit confused. Plus it's not like you can say, "Oh hey, take these french toast thingys off. I want my total to be 99 cents!". The meal itself was meh at best. The best thing about it was probably the home fries, as the eggs did not taste like eggs (Egg Beaters, anyone?) nor the bacon resemble bacon. Or at least the bacon was turkey bacon and not pork bacon. I think. But for 99 cents, I guess it's worth the thought that it's breakfast, right? The bagel was stale, as if it had been left out from the day before and put back to serve to another unsuspecting customer (i.e. me), and the glassware was dirty. I've read reviews that the employees at this particular location seem to be going through the motions, but that was ridiculous. Are they simply wiping off the used glasses and putting them back out for people to use rather than washing them? Yuck. After that "meal", I ventured down to the Marketplace to do some closer browsing than I had done the day prior. My day's hull included a food container for the lovely pepperkakkor, a vegetable streamer, and a contoured bed pillow. I also hit up the food market and restocked on more of those sparkling apple/elderflower beverages. All in all, it was an okay experience, but if you're going to this location, here are some tips: -if you can, take the free shuttle. I dished out about $13 round trip to get here with the bus operating every hour. The free shuttle apparently operates approximately every half hour from 10 AM. to 6 PM. every Saturday and Sunday. -if you're buying small, light items, bring a large reusable bag. If you forget, IKEA does sell them for about 59 cents at the checkouts. -if you're buying a few items that might be too large or cumbersome for you to carry, bring a travel trolley. I was silently bemoaning the fact that I hadn't bothered with that, or bought backing tape to secure my cardboard boxes in place for travel. Or, if you can't get a trolley, bring someone with you. Two sets of hands are a whole lot better than one. -If eating in the restaurant, make sure before you complete the purchase that your cutlery/glassware is clean. Sad to say that, but if they fail to do it, you'll have to look out for yourself. -If you want to go to Jersey Gardens across the way after wards, DO NOT WALK. The road between both is not pedestrian friendly, and I could have sworn I saw a RIP wreath of flowers on the way to Jersey Gardens. P.S. - As a result of the yuck factor with my glassware, I filled out their in store survey. I gave the restaurant a gagging smiley face rating. That lack of cleanliness would not fly at a regular restaurant, and could get you shut down on health violations. read more

Worse Ikea ever! Stay away on the weekends if you want to maintain your sanity. I went on Sunday with the family and am never going back to this location again. I must have spent nearly 5 hours there because in addition to having to walk through a crowded maze of a floor plan, there are lines everywhere (playroom, cafeteria, cashier, home delivery, design, bathroom) and the Ikea helpers are impossible to find! However, the worse part of the shopping experience is I have 3 of my children with me thinking that they can all spend a full hour at the playroom while I'm shopping but no! Ikea staff limited play time to 30 freaking minutes (originally 45 minutes) and the room was restricted to kids 34-54"! I was only able to sign in 1 of my 3 children. Then close to 30 minutes later I was forced to stop shopping midway on the 2nd floor to backtrack to pick up my child at the playroom. Grrrr! What irks me is the playroom is pretty big and there were only a total of 10-12 kids inside! They could easily allow kids to stay the full hour like at the Paramus Ikea. The playroom was the only reason I brave the crowd to come to Ikea but it was a terrible all around experience so I won't be returning to Elizabeth Ikea ever again! read more

FURNITURE PARADISE I don't care what anybody says, I love the IKEA maze! There are hundreds of satisfying items to choose from. My whole HOME, from the bedrooms, office, love the kitchen, and dinning room's furnitures are bought from here. The prices are reasonable, and I enjoy building the furniture. Well worth the trip and effort. 3% tax as well! One weakness they have is on the weekends, they are busy and lines are way too long. read more

I love IKEA. I don't care that millions of people will have the same furniture as me. I don't care that I have to put it together myself. I love being there, I love shopping there, I love the coffee. The people who work there suck. They are not attentive, they don't acknowledge customers, they are rude when they're forced to acknowledge customers. If IKEA could just replace their depressing employees with self check out, it would honestly be a better place and you would still get just as much assistance as you do now. read more

I am definitely a fan of IKEA, as people can tell by looking at my apartment and especially bedroom. The stuff I've gotten from here is definitely worth what I paid and is in pretty good condition despite assembling it, using it for a couple years, disassembling it and moving it, and putting it back together. But all IKEA stuff is the same, so the 4 stars are for this specific IKEA store. It can get crowded, but actually not as crowded as some IKEAs I have been to. The cafe part often has really, really slow cashiers. Not sure why it takes so long to ring up food, but shrug. The parking layout could probably be a bit better designed and it is annoying you can't take carts to the parking lot especially as they do not give you plastic bags to carry your stuff. The loading area can also get crowded quickly so if you have smaller items but can't carry them to your car because they don't give you bags (you can use boxes if you want), this is really annoying. Employees are sometimes hard to locate but are pretty helpful once you find one. If you live in Manhattan, this may be the closest IKEA for you (there are also the Paramus and Brooklyn locations) and there is a bus on the weekends which I have heard is pretty convenient. read more

This IKEA was open just after Sandy hit, which I expected to mean it would be packed. We visited on a Friday, and it wasn't. Amazing. It was nearly empty, in fact. I've never seen an IKEA parking lot with so few cars. While smaller and laid out differently than other locations I'm more familiar with, the Elizabeth IKEA helped us get all the furnishings we needed quickly and easily. The fabric department is small and a bit empty, but that might be due to the storm. The clerk at checkout was very nearly friendly, even! (NJ seems very different from the Midwest in that way). 3.5% tax is a great perk too! read more

Horrible!! IKEA - take a course in logistics!! My parents and I made a trip to the Elizabeth IKEA to pick out a new sofa for my house. We looked forward to the promising Swedish experience of walking through a wonderland of well appointed displays and deliberating between all the cute modern sofa designs. Sure enough we picked out a stylish leather sofa and a bunch of household goods they dangle in front of you as you walk to the checkout. That's when IKEA started ruining our Father's Day. We had told a floor associate at the living room section that we were interested in home delivery. She informed us that we could sign up for it after checkout. At checkout we paid for the sofa and our goods and informed the cashier that we'd like to apply for home delivery. She directed us to the "home delivery" department at the far end of the floor. We approached the desk and noticed other people rolling boxes toward the line. I asked if we needed to pick up our furniture before we got processed for home delivery. The associate told me yes so we walked across to the "furniture pickup" area. There we waited for almost 2 hours for our number to be called as they pulled the boxed components of our sofa. It was mind-numbing. Finally when they rolled out our 2 giant boxes we had to roll them back to the "home delivery" line to basically GIVE THEM BACK TO IKEA. We waited another 45 minutes when I guess they finally realized that 1 person at the register was not enough and 2 other associates from the aimless surplus of associates walking around decided to open up a few other registers. When we finally thought we could breathe a sigh of relief we were told after 3 HOURS OF WAITING AND 3 STAGES OF PROCESSING that they could not deliver to Ewing, NJ. I asked where COULD they deliver to? The associate was vague and mumbled "central NJ like Princeton" which happens to be right next to Ewing and where I work. The lady told me she could return my sofa and then order it online to deliver it which basically made our trip to the store (which is not close) completely useless. Fed up with the catastrophic logistical, and communication, and customer service FAILURE and 3 hours of waiting my mom started to point out the amount of time they had taken from us. The group of associates immediately got defensive and threatened to call security on my tired 5'3" mom. We decided to return everything we bought. We rolled our giant boxes to the "returns" department. We were wrong to think they couldn't mess up any further. By the time they rung up our refund it was short several items. So we waited yet again for them to rummage through our cart and read line-by-line through the receipts to figure out what they had missed. After such a horrible experience and treatment we were glad we did not give any money to IKEA that day. We would rather spend more money locally on better furniture and a better run operation. read more

I love IKEA. But i do not love IKEA in Elizabeth, NJ. First of all, $99 for delivery to Manhattan?! What is up with that?! I suppose i've been spoilt by living in a Vancouver suburb - where IKEA is a 20minute drive and I had a car and travelling with a crap load of stuff was easy. Taking the free shuttle from Penn Station lugging your IKEA load is NOT. But cheap stuff is all worth the travel and hassle. And swedish meatballs - yum. Nevertheless, when I move out into my own lil place - it'll be IKEA all the way. Thank god for boyfriends with strong arms and strong backs! read more

IKEA have tons of furniture to choose from. Place is so huge seems like you are in a maze. Was looking for a window shades and was out stock. There was staff around to help and they did not restocked the items I was looking for. But had a great time walking around and looking at other furniture. Also had one of my favorite dish the Swedish meatballs for lunch. Swedish meatballs comes in 15 pieces with smashed potato, gravy, and cranberry sauce. Their meatballs with the gravy and cranberry sauce give it a nice taste in your mouth. IKEA also sell the frozen meatballs where you can make at home. read more

IKEA - Swedish meatballs with smash potatoes, cornbread, and cranberry sauce - Furniture Stores Near Me - Elizabeth, New Jersey

Oh IKEA... you are a joy and a bane. So my wife and I were building a home bar and decided to shop at IKEA. We planned to visit one IKEA and ended up shopping at two and banging our skulls against their online ordering capabilities, the labyrinthine logic that governs how different IKEAs play together, and their return desk. The majority of our ordering/purchasing was done at the Red Hook IKEA - and it went well. A helpful Brooklynite got our $1000 order into the system quickly and set up the delivery with a minimum of headaches. There were only three items on our list that were not in the store. Not too bad! She checked the system and determined that one piece would be in store within a week and another piece could be ordered online. The third tiny piece was the problem - the Brooklyn store wouldn't be getting it and it couldn't be ordered online. Oh, but the Elizabeth NJ store had 'a few' of them... 1200 to be exact. But apparently they won't ship to customers or to another IKEA store. Genius. We went home to build our bar, order the one piece we could, and plan our trip to the Elizabeth IKEA. Apparently, the IKEA computer information doesn't jive with their customer website as we found out that the web-orderable piece wasn't. Lovely. Fast forward a week. With our bar 90% done, we trotted out to the IKEA in Elizabeth to pick up these two little parts and return a few items. We arrived shortly after they opened and their parking lot was less than a quarter full. The store and registers weren't busy. Somehow, though, the cashiers managed to move slower than molasses as my wife purchased our two little items. I wasn't with her though. Along with a half dozen other customers, I was cooling my heels at the Return Desk for over 45 minutes due to the glacial pace of the customer service staff. I can only imagine how long the wait would have been if the store was hopping. read more

I usually go to the Paramus store but passed this one on the highway and decided to go in to get a bookshelf I needed. First problem was that the item was not in the aisle/bin noted on the sign - I asked an employee who told me where it was (he then complained to a co-worker that they hadn't changed the signs on the showroom when they moved the item!). Next I leave the store with the unwieldy cart and walk from one end of the sidewalk area to the other (working up a sweat as it was warm and humid) only to find that there was no way to get the cart out into the parking lot (signs would have been greatly appreciated). Since I was shopping alone, I had to park my cart in a locker while I walked quite a distance to get my car (more sweating involved). Then I had to bring the car into the small but bustling pick up area park and go get the cart from the locker. Fortunately I was able to get a spot that wasn't too far from the locker but there was a row of carts now parked right in front of it. I pushed them out of the way, got my cart and maneuvered it through the people and carts towards my car. You cannot get the cart right up to your car as they have to stay behind the barricade - so now I (sweaty, pissed off middle aged woman) have to drag the long heavy package out of the cart and into my car. Sorry , not sorry, never going to this IKEA again. Paramus allows you to take your cart right out to your car the whole entrance/exit of the store is much more organized. read more