Apple Retail Store News Roundup

[serogers1970]

Yes...we have 2 in the area now. About 20 minutes apart.
When I was living in San Jose though, there were 4 within 30 minutes of each other.
It's not a matter of whether or not there is already one in an area, it's a matter of what kind of traffic they get. They are going to get SOO much more traffic here in Roseville, then they would in middle-of-nowhere, Montana.
This whole area over the past few years has probably tripled in size, if not more. This area is a rapidly expanding suburb of Sacramento.

Apple already has a store in Sacramento. Seems unfair for a city to have 2 or more stores when many cities have none.

 

[serogers1970]

Oh, and APPL stock is back at around 143. I should have picked some up when it was under 100 a couple months ago.

I wish I never sold of the 20 shares I bought at $19 (prior to their last split and 700% growth....sigh)

 

[serogers1970]

You can't those from Roseville to squeeze their H2s, H3s, Suburbans, Escalades, Excursions, Navigators and Expeditions into the parking lot at the Arden Fair Mall!! Jeez.. ...besides.. Arden Fair is too close to the "city people" and those from Northgate....


They like it in their ultra new clean suburban communities with no character.

OUCH! Someone has a bit of a green streak running through them, and is being quite the generalist!

 

[vjl323]

You guys are all complaining about Sacramento having 2 stores. LOL Here in So Cal I have about 5 within a 45 minute driving range. Probably more but those five are the only ones that I've been too. lol

I used to gloat that exact same thing when I lived in SoCal [1972-2004]. Now I live in the Asheville, NC area, and the closest one is 2 hours away.

Didn't there used to be a website that listed possible locations for upcoming stores? I'd love to know where the 25 they are building now are going to pop up!

/vjl/

 

[serogers1970]

FYI, Most if not all store Grand Openings do the T-Shirt thing...

I have one still in the mail-tube from when the Palo Alto store opened.
These things ever become worth anything???

 

[serogers1970]

The Arden Store is a great store but it's high time there was one in Roseville where all the newer development has been over the past 5+ years.

It's just a shame it's not in the new 'lifestyle' mall (The Fountains) as the Galleria sucks, a lot..but at least it now has one useful store

While the Galleria did just undergo a huge expansion (Tiffany's and other HIGH end stores) I too am surprised it isn't in the Fountains. Would have made a LOT more sense to put it there aesthetically, but more traffic in the Galleria vs Fountains.

 

[serogers1970]

Funny that as the only damage my poor neglected 4Runner has received is from that parking lot in Arden Fair when visiting the Apple Store

I always park way in the back, in the shipping/receiving nook between Nordstrom's and Macy's. Still a lot of cars there, but a bit more secluded.

I just hope Galleria has easier access to bringing in computers for repair then Arden does!
On that note...have they said if it'll be full service (repairs onsite) like Arden is?

 

[marksman]

Eh? The Gap didn't sell their own, made-by-contractors clothes?
Cause Apple makes all of their hardware .... hmmm, not.

The gap was a retail store. Sure they had clothes branded for them. I doubt they actually made any of their own clothes. Regardless, it is not the same thing. The Gap was a retailer business, and Apple is in the business of selling their own hardware and software. The Gap was in the business of selling other people's clothes. Just because it said Gap on it, did not mean they made it.

Yeah there is a difference in that Gap sold clothes and Apple is selling hardware/software. However, what they are doing is not so far apart as you are making it out to be.

Actually it is significantly different. Apple existed long before they ever had a retail store, and could continue to exist without a retail store. The Gap was a retail store.

That they hired someone who was experienced in running a retail business to help them with their own retail business is not surprising. But the retail stores are just a part of Apple not the whole thing, like it was with The Gap.

Of the last 5 major Apple purchases I made, 2 of them were made from Apple. Of the last 5 Gap purchases I ever made all of them were at the Gap.

 

[ChoMomma]

I literally live across the street from the Galleria in Roseville. Happy Days!!!

Tyler... you suck.

 

[doubleatheman]

I'm checking out the Santa Rosa Store opening......

We have one that's not in the mall? I hate that little mall store.

 

[bruinsrme]

Well Apple has made a fortune off us with overpriced Ikea computing.Glad to see them waste $$$ in such hard times

The cheapening of their components(No FW on most macbooks, adding the cost of FW800 to FW400 adapters just as examples) will add to their profits in the end.I sometimes wonder why I stayed a fan for so long

5th Avenue...50k per hour...10 MBs, 10 MBPs, 5 MPs, and stacks of iPods, all flying out every hour. How big is the storage area??



Someone has a chip on their shoulder...

I think Midi hit the nail on the head not a chip off the shoulder.

 

[Lynxpro]

Apple already has a store in Sacramento. Seems unfair for a city to have 2 or more stores when many cities have none.

The existing Apple Store in Sacramento [Arden Fair Mall] is crap. It is small, single story (on the second floor of the mall), and cramped. If you want to complain about cities with too many Apple Stores, I would complain about the Portland (Oregon) Metropolitan area. There's been 2 Apple Stores there for years and that Metropolitan area population wise is totally dwarfed by Sacramento. We also have 2 large universities in our area... UC Davis (my alma mater) and CSU Sacramento, not to mention several community colleges and private schools. We're also like, get this, the State's capitol city. So yeah, we deserve at least one decent Apple Store, if not two. If Apple was playing its cards well, they'd open a store in Folsom, one in Elk Grove, and then move out of the Arden Fair location and build a decent store in the North area...preferably in Natomas. The whole Arden-Arcade area of Sacramento is going under.

Apple also really needs to court the State's government IT employees better, but that's a whole different subject...

 

[NT1440]

My newly rennovated Apple store reopens today

 

[Lynxpro]

I just moved to the Sacramento area and was in the Galleria the other day. I asked a random store clerk if there was an Apple Store in the mall. All she said was "Soon!" but didn't say they were actually building one now! I'll be there Saturday at 10 AM for sure.

Is there any word of a drawing? I checked the website and there's no posting whether there will be a doorprize for opening weekend. I hope they are continuing the tradition...

 

[Lynxpro]

Is this true? I might ask my wife to drop-by because I'm also working that day. Yay, a free shirt.

I still have my t-shirt from the downtown San Francisco store opening.

 

[Lynxpro]

I always park way in the back, in the shipping/receiving nook between Nordstrom's and Macy's. Still a lot of cars there, but a bit more secluded.
I just hope Galleria has easier access to bringing in computers for repair then Arden does!
On that note...have they said if it'll be full service (repairs onsite) like Arden is?

I hate having to walk through JC Penny's to get to the store. I too park in the back.

 

[StuddedLeather]

::Sighs:: I hope they announce the Brooklyn store soon

 

[Pigumon]

Apple already has a store in Sacramento. Seems unfair for a city to have 2 or more stores when many cities have none.

Roseville is another city bordering Sac, and both of them are MAJOR suburban areas. So it makes sense, they are both HUGE malls that are packed daily.

Remember, Sacramento is the capital of California, it's not as tiny as you might think. Sac county has 1,394,154 people, that's a lot of ipods.

 

[seniorstinky]

Umm..

Apple Store Biltmore. 2430 E. Camelback Rd. Phoenix, AZ 85016 (602) 977-0285

It has been there for years. I can't believe you have been driving all the way down to chandler fashion square to go to an apple store.

They are opening a new store at Scottsdale Road and Greenway at the new Scottsdale Quarter. Job Ads are on Monster for this location.

 

[fef714]

So are they going to cut down on floor space or back room space? The biggest problem for me has been how cramped a lot of the Apple stores are.. it's not worth the hassle to go to a lot of Apple stores on Saturday/Sunday due to the volume of traffic!

Ya, I know some of these places have multiple levels, but the stores near me are little one room stores.

 

[furcalchick]

the apple store in wellington is being renovated right now and it's been closed since monday, opening back up on june 25th. if i remember right, it opened in 2002, one of the oldest stores on apple's lineup.

 

[AidenShaw]

the apple store in wellington is being renovated right now and it's been closed since monday, opening back up on june 25th. if i remember right, it opened in 2002, one of the oldest stores on apple's lineup.

Opened at 10:00 on 17 August 2002.

Why guess when a simple question to http://search.yahoo.com will give you the answer?

 

[fef714]

The closest Apple store to me closed down about ten years ago, it still has the rainbow Apple logo out front. lol

 

[Zincous]

WOO I was at the Apple store in Roseville this morning as it opened! I got a free shirt!!

 

[Goona]

I have 4 Apple stores close to me with a 5th opening soon (Toronto area).