A typical Ikea store comes with a sprawling parking lot—in Burbank, California, for example, the lot has room for 1,700 cars. But as the company works to shrink its carbon footprint, including the ...

They're not the sprawling warehouses you've come to associate with IKEA — some don't even serve Swedish meatballs.

You don't have to travel to Sweden to find an Ikea, but depending on where you live in the United States, these furniture warehouses are far and few between.

This year, Ikea is opening new, smaller stores in cities from New York to Paris. And in the latter city, the company is promoting its new approach with an unusual stunt. The Swedish retailer opened ...