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International retailer Ikea announced Wednesday that it is temporarily closing all 50 of its stores in the United States during the coronavirus outbreak, including its store in Fishers.
Ikea did not say when it planned to reopen the stores. The retailer plans to offer online shopping with home delivery and store pickup at some locations.
The Fishers store, which opened along Interstate 69 north of 106th Street in October 2017, is among those that’s open for pick-up services. The 289,000-square-foot store has about 250 employees.
Netherlands-based Ingka Group, which owns most Ikea stores, also is closing stores in Canada, Denmark, Portugal, the Netherlands and Belgium. It already closed stores in Germany and other countries in Europe.
However, the retailer has reopened most of its stores in China, except for the one in Wuhan, where the outbreak started in late December.
Worldwide, Ikea has closed 251 of its 380 stores.
“Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures. This is the most responsible way IKEA can continue to care for our co-workers and our customers in a manner that is healthy and safe,” Javier Quinones, IKEA’s U.S. president said in written remarks.
Ikea said it would continue to provide benefits and paid leave to its 18,000 global employees.
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