Thousands of shoppers have queued for hours to get into Ikea stores after the furniture giant reopened 19 shops in England and Northern Ireland on Monday.
They had been warned that only a limited number of shoppers would be welcomed with only one adult and one child from a household allowed in.
However, Ikea was forced to shut car parks at some stores to help ease pressure.
The company praised shoppers for their patience.
"Where we've seen strong demand we've taken appropriate decisions to open early for browsing and to temporarily close our car parks to help ease pressure and reduce waiting times," Ikea said.
"We're incredibly grateful to the public in playing their part to help keep everyone safe."
In Warrington people arrived at 5.40am to start queuing for the Ikea store to reopen at 9am.
A line of more than 1,000 people snaked around the car park with similar scenes at Ikea's Wembley store.
On twitter, shoppers complained of "five-mile queues" in Croydon, Wembley and outside of London.
Law student Alexi Norris visited Wembley to buy a desk however, was shocked at the queues.