Customers turn IKEA into ultimate sleepover locale after severe snowstorm
Global News
A snowstorm in northern Denmark made it unsafe for shoppers and staff to leave the store at closing time.
Talk about the ultimate sleepover locale.
A couple dozen employees and customers had no shortage of sleeping surfaces to choose from, when a severe snowstorm stranded them inside the showroom of a northern Denmark IKEA this week.
Close to 30 people were trapped inside the Aalborg, Denmark store Wednesday, after about 30 cm of snow fell and made roads too treacherous to leave.
“We slept in the furniture exhibitions and our showroom on the first floor, where we have beds, mattresses and sofa beds,” store manager Peter Elmose told the Associated Press.
An added bonus? People could “pick the exact bed they always have wanted to try,” Elmose continued.
The store’s guests snacked on chips and cinnamon rolls from the in-store cafeteria and watched T.V.
Erik Bangsgaard, 75, and his wife, Hanne, were two of the people stranded in the store. They selected a comfy pull-out sofa bed for their sleeping arrangement.
“I have probably never tried that before, but we have slept well in the hours when we could sleep,” he told TV2 Nord Thursday morning.