{"id":359036,"date":"2026-07-02T20:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/359036\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T20:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:17:08","slug":"ikea-closing-domain-plan-and-order-store-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/359036\/","title":{"rendered":"IKEA closing Domain Plan and Order store in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IKEA U.S. will close its north North Austin location at the Domain, a nontraditional store meant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ikea.com\/gb\/en\/stores\/plan-and-order-points\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">only to help customers plan a space and order products<\/a>, only two years after its opening, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ikea.com\/us\/en\/stores\/plan-and-order-point-austin-domain\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">according to the company website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to test, explore, and develop new ways for customers to meet IKEA, while investing in home delivery, pick-up services and our online experience,\u201d the company\u2019s website states. The store will close Aug. 30 \u201cas part of our strategy to build a more affordable, accessible and sustainable future,\u201d the company announced.<\/p>\n<p>The mini store, one of the company&#8217;s Plan and Order locations, opened at 3306 Esperanza Crossing in the summer of 2024, offering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/business\/article\/ikea-plan-and-order-point-store-austin-18614596.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">planning services and product pickup for any orders<\/a>, not just those made at the location. A year later, IKEA and Best Buy announced a partnership, bringing more of these consultation stores into Best Buy locations. The\u00a0location at 4970 W Highway 290 was part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ikea.com\/us\/en\/newsroom\/corporate-news\/best-buy-and-ikea-u-s-have-partnered-to-pilot-new-in-store-planning-and-shopping-experiences-pub1f0e43d0\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">first round of stores<\/a> announced last summer.<\/p>\n<p>The news prompted some confusion on social media, with many commenters saying they weren&#8217;t even aware the small location existed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Austin\/comments\/1ul71hh\/ikea_domain_location_is_closing_on_august_30th\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">until the closure was announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI live close to it as well and had no idea,\u201d wrote one Austinite on Reddit.\u00a0 \u201cI can literally walk there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Customers with open projects at the Austin store can choose to close them or switch them online or to another store. IKEA U.S. did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this is how I found out there\u2019s an IKEA at the Domain!\u201d one commenter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IKEA U.S. will close its north North Austin location at the Domain, a nontraditional store meant\u00a0only to help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-359036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}