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Expansions, Moves, Openings Mark New Year

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The typically quiet post-New Year period for Apple retail is being interrupted by news of a grand opening, store expansions and moves, and rumors of future stores. Historically, the company opens over one-half of its new stores in the last four months of each year, leaving the first quarter for planning, renovations and upgrades. The [...]

Art Show of Snatched Apple Store Photos

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A master’s degree candidate at the University of North Texas will open an unusual exhibition of photos this weekend—snapshots taken by Macs, iPads and iPhones at Apple’s retail stores. Irby Pace traveled to stores in New York City and Texas during 2010 to collect the photos, taken by the subjects themselves while mugging at the [...]

Remodeled Calif. Store To Re-Open Saturday

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The historic and now-remodeled Pasadena (S. Calif.) retail store will re-open this Saturday, with more space and a reconfigured interior. The store opened in January 2003 in the city’s main, upscale shopping district. The storefront was modified slightly in 2006 to remove the original black metal panels and back-lit Apple logos on either side of the [...]

Apple Reaches To UK For New Retail Chief

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Ending a six-month international search for someone with the necessary skills and enthusiasm to carry Apple’s retail stores through its next 10 years, the company announced late Monday that it has appointed John Browett as Sr. vice-president of the Retail segment. Browett, 47, is a British citizen who is CEO of Dixons Retail plc, a [...]

Apple Nixes Walk-In iPhone Sales At HK Store

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Hoping to discourage scalpers and the Beijing-like waiting line scuffles, Apple has ended walk-in purchases of the iPhone 4s at the IFC Mall (Hong Kong) store, replacing it with a daily lottery procedure. Economic conditions and demand for the iPhone 4s in China has created throngs of paid line-sitters who squeeze out ordinary buyers, sometimes [...]

Bus Rider, Apple Store & Big Surprise

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The only thing on Esther Gonzalez‘ mind as she took the bus to work on Chicago’s north side in 2010 was transferring from one bus to another. She knew nothing about the Lincoln Park Apple store construction, the scaffolding industry or insurance contracts. But she was about to learn. On March 17, the Apple store [...]

Judge Sentences Killer, Criticizes Store Employees

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A Maryland judge sentenced a convicted murdered to life in prison without parole on Friday, but also took the occasion to express his outrage at Bethesda Row Apple store employees who heard the victim’s cries for help from the adjacent store, but did nothing. The family of victim Jayna Murray also criticized Apple and its employees, saying [...]

Ex-VP Using Apple Experience To Remake Penney

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All the signs and banners said “JC Penney,” but during the company’s press presentation Wednesday, there were plenty of references to Apple and its retail stores. During the 90-minute briefing, former Apple retail chief Ron Johnson explained his plans to remake JCP into “America’s favorite store” over the next three years, admittedly drawing from his [...]

Real Estate Exec Leaks Store Sales Figure

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In the world of Apple retail secrets, even the revelation of a single number is significant. In this case, a story in the Business Record outlined the commercial retail market in the Des Moines (Iowa) region, including at the Jordan Creek Town Center, where an Apple store is located. Tyler Dingel of the firm CBRE/Hubbell Commercial [...]

Apple Changes Accounting for High-Profile Stores

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Apple has one of the most valuable brands in the world, and the company’s retail stores are arguably the most successful method of promoting that brand. In fact, the company has designated 20 of its stores as “high-profile,” and has expensed certain brand awareness expenses for these locations to the corporate ledger, and not the Retail [...]

Stores Lead Company to New Financial Records

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Apple’s retail stores achieved new records for sales, profit and visitors during the holiday quarter, helping the company reach overall goals that defied the overall personal computer market. Revenue for the stores was dollarsignr6.1 billion, up 59 percent compared to the same quarter of 2010, while profit soared to dollarsignr1.8 billion, up 30.8 percent. Sales [...]

Activity Spotted For Two Future France Stores

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After a year of rumors, two future stores in France may be on schedule for a 2012 grand opening. According to the MacGeneration Web site, Apple has filed an application to operate a retail business at the Quatre Temps shopping center northwest of city center, at the La Défense complex of office buildings, a train [...]

Retail Stores Have Many Construction Suppliers

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According to a just-released Apple report on supplier responsibility, at least 156 companies provide materials to help create the company’s products. But it’s little known that an almost equal number of companies contribute materials to create the company’s retail stores. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, IFO has compiled a list of 141 companies [...]

Sneek Peek: SoHo Store In Mid-Remodel

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A passerby took this amazing photo of the interior of the SoHo (NYC) Apple retail store in the midst of its complete reconstruction and expansion. This view from the front of the building on Prince Street shows the original five front steps in the foreground (covered with metal), support scaffolding and tons of new structural [...]

Broker Contacted By Apple Real Estate Scouts

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The chairman of a New York City real estate firm may have slipped up when he told a newspaper reporter that Apple’s real estate team approached him several months ago, and is now in preliminary talks to open a retail store along Austin Street in Forest Hills, Queens. Yeheskel Elias told the New York Daily News [...]