Staff and guests attend the opening of Ikea ’s first distribution centre in Ireland at Greenogue Logistics Park, in Rathcoole, Co Dublin . Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish TimesIt is from here that as many as half a million packages made up of flat-pack furniture, cheap delph, freezer bags, soft lighting and softer cushions and all the rest will be shipped across Ireland faster than ever before in the months ahead.
Jakob Bertilsson, Ikea Ireland’s country customer fulfilment manager, explains that the 120 or so staff who would normally be ferrying things from the enormous shelving units to the dispatch bays have all been sent on a break to ensure we’re not felled by a rogue Billy Bookcase as we take the press tour.
In some respects, the warehouse looks identical to the area of an Ikea shop that houses all the flat-pack furniture, but here the shelves reach much, much higher into the sky. It is calmer here, and the products are plucked from shelves by dedicated floor staff driving fork lifts and dropped at computer-driven packing points where they are bundled up and sent on their way around Ireland in Ikea’s newly minted fleet of electric vehicles .
As of now, customers with Dublin eircodes will receive their home deliveries in zero-emission vehicles and Ikea has committed to ensuring all deliveries to customers across Ireland will be exclusively in zero-emission vehicles by August 2025. Vanessa Miliaris and Vanessa Ljubetic pick items from the facility's shelfs. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
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