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Russians buy last goods from H&M, IKEA as stores wind down

FILE - Staff members wait for visitors at a newly opened fast food restaurant in a former McDonald's outlet in Bolshaya Bronnaya Street in Moscow, Russia, on June 12, 2022. McDonald's sold its 850 restaurants to a Russian franchisee owner, who is moving to reopen them under the new name Vkusno-i Tochka. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov, File) FILE - Few visitors pass inside the GUM department store with lots of boutiques closed due to sanctions in Moscow, Russia, on June 1, 2022. Often, it's hard to tell when stores are closed. At the famous GUM department store lined with shops in Red Square, most of the closed storefronts still had the lights on and a clerk or guard inside. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File) A showcase of the BOSS boutique closed due to sanctions in the GUM department store in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Often, it's hard to tell when stores are closed. At the famous GUM department store lined with shops in Red Square, most of the closed storefronts still had the lights on and a clerk or guard inside. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) A member of security stands at an entrance inside the GUM department store where many of branded boutiques are closed due to sanctions in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Often, it's hard to tell when stores are closed. At the famous GUM department store lined with shops in Red Square, most of the closed storefronts still had the lights on and a clerk or guard inside. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Customers and tourists walk past a Dior boutique closed due to sanctions in the GUM department store in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Often, it's hard to tell when stores are closed. At the famous GUM department store lined with shops in Red Square, most of the closed storefronts still had the lights on and a clerk or guard inside. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) A showcase of the boutique of Jimmy Choo closed due to sanctions in the GUM department store in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Often, it's hard to tell when stores are closed. At the famous GUM department store lined with shops in Red Square, most of the closed storefronts still had the lights on and a clerk or guard inside. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Two women walk past a Fendi boutique closed due to sanctions in the GUM department store in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Often, it's hard to tell when stores are closed. At the famous GUM department store lined with shops in Red Square, most of the closed storefronts still had the lights on and a clerk or guard inside. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Two women walk past a Louis Voutton boutique closed due to sanctions in the GUM department store in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Often, it's hard to tell when stores are closed. At the famous GUM department store lined with shops in Red Square, most of the closed storefronts still had the lights on and a clerk or guard inside. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Shoppers buy items on sale in an H&M shop in the shopping mall Aviapark in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia, moving forward with their exit from the country after it sent troops into Ukraine. Sweden-based H&M and Netherlands-based IKEA had paused sales in Russia after the military operation began and are now looking to unload their stocks of clothing and furnishings as they wind down operations there. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Shoppers go up the escalator with things they want to buy in their hands in an H&M shop in the shopping mall Aviapark in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia, moving forward with their exit from the country after it sent troops into Ukraine. Sweden-based H&M and Netherlands-based IKEA had paused sales in Russia after the military operation began and are now looking to unload their stocks of clothing and furnishings as they wind down operations there. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Shoppers buy items on sale in an H&M shop in the shopping mall Aviapark in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia, moving forward with their exit from the country after it sent troops into Ukraine. Sweden-based H&M and Netherlands-based IKEA had paused sales in Russia after the military operation began and are now looking to unload their stocks of clothing and furnishings as they wind down operations there. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) A woman walks past an opens Marks & Spencer shop in the shopping mall Aviapark in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia, moving forward with their exit from the country after it sent troops into Ukraine. Sweden-based H&M and Netherlands-based IKEA had paused sales in Russia after the military operation began and are now looking to unload their stocks of clothing and furnishings as they wind down operations there. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) A couple walk past the Jeans'a boutique opened instead of Levi's (Levi Strauss & Co) American boutique closed due to sanctions in the GUM department store in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia, moving forward with their exit from the country after it sent troops into Ukraine. Sweden-based H&M and Netherlands-based IKEA had paused sales in Russia after the military operation began and are now looking to unload their stocks of clothing and furnishings as they wind down operations there. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) People line up to enter an H&M shop and buy items on sale in the Aviapark shopping mall in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia, moving forward with their exit from the country after it sent troops into Ukraine. Sweden-based H&M and Netherlands-based IKEA had paused sales in Russia after the military operation began and are now looking to unload their stocks of clothing and furnishings as they wind down operations there. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) People line up to enter an H&M shop and buy items on sale in the Aviapark shopping mall in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia, moving forward with their exit from the country after it sent troops into Ukraine. Sweden-based H&M and Netherlands-based IKEA had paused sales in Russia after the military operation began and are now looking to unload their stocks of clothing and furnishings as they wind down operations there. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) FILE - People wait in a line to pay for purchases at the IKEA store on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, on March 3, 2022. Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia, moving forward with their exit from the country after it sent troops into Ukraine. Sweden-based H&M and Netherlands-based IKEA had paused sales in Russia after the military operation began and are now looking to unload their stocks of clothing and furnishings as they wind down operations there.. (AP Photo, File) A sign of the H&M shop is seen on the glass wall of the shopping mall Aviapark in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia, moving forward with their exit from the country after it sent troops into Ukraine. Sweden-based H&M and Netherlands-based IKEA had paused sales in Russia after the military operation began and are now looking to unload their stocks of clothing and furnishings as they wind down operations there. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)