Screaming, crazy people are usual for low Ikea store

Functional furniture and low prices – shoppers like Ikea store just for these qualities. At the opening new Ikea store in Michigan gather hundreds of screaming, crazy people. In the time before the opening, prospective shoppers ate complimentary doughnuts, donned blue-and-yellow visors and enjoyed the stylings of a live band playing Motown hits.

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Screaming, crazy people are usual for low Ikea store

The doors opened at 8:45 a.m. 15 minutes earlier than expected and the hysteria began as the Swedish home furnishings giant opened its 28th U.S. location.

Ikea North America President Pernille Lopez presided over an opening ceremony in the parking lot that featured the official "sawing of the log" ceremony and the raising of the Swedish, American and Michigan flags.

Employees pounded inflatable noisemakers together as shoppers entered the 311,000-square-foot (27,990-square-meter) store that is located in Canton Township, 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Detroit.

The excitement was such that some of those waiting outside the store had been there since Monday, reports the AP.

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