Ikea has teamed up with Tesco to launch new "convenient and affordable" collection points from supermarket car parks.
The Swedish furniture giant is expanding its existing Collect Near You service, with an option for customers to collect their orders from a designated area within their local Tesco car park.
Collection is free for orders over £200 and costs £10 for all other orders.
The service will launch in Blackburn on October 10 and will then be expanded to six other sites in Doncaster, Cambridge, Dereham, Bolton, Stockport and Liverpool later this year.
When ordering online, customers will be able to select an option to collect from a pick-up point at a Tesco car park at their chosen time and date.
At the car park, they will find a delivery driver who will hand their order over to them.
Ikea UK & Ireland Fulfilment and Multichannel Network Manager Julie Carr said: "We are proud to be collaborating with Tesco to test-and-trial more convenient, accessible, and affordable collection services in the UK across a number of key locations.
"This collaboration recognises that in an ever-changing retail environment, there is an opportunity to work together to bring IKEA closer to the many people."
A full list of Collect Near You points in collaboration with Tesco this year is:
- Tesco Blackburn Superstore
- Tesco Doncaster Extra
- Tesco Cambridge Newmarket Road Superstore
- Tesco Dereham Extra
- Tesco Bolton Horwich Extra
- Tesco Stockport Extra
- Tesco Liverpool Old Swan Superstore
The new partnership comes as figures revealed that shoppers are now paying 10.6% more than they were a year ago as food inflation hit its highest rate on record.
Overall, shop prices rose by 5.7% in September, up from 5.1% in August.
It marks another record since the British Retail Consortium (BRC)-Nielsen IQ index began in 2005.
Food price inflation soared past last month's 9.3% to 10.6%, driven by the war in Ukraine.
The conflict - which began in February after Vladimir Putin's Russia invaded its neighbouring country - is continuing to push up the price of animal feed, fertiliser and vegetable oil.
