Denmark’s IKEA stores are preparing to serve as emergency shelters and temporary hospitals during crises, with plans to use display beds for accommodation, restaurants for food and generators for backup power ▻ ↧ IKEA's Danish stores could become shelters as Europe boosts prepare... In the bedding department of Denmark's largest IKEA store, security chief Torben Mortensen ​walks past rows of display beds and describes a use for them far removed from retail: emergency shelter.