Apple Store Modernization Efforts Continue From Los Angeles to London

[neoelectronaut]

My local store needs to relocate into a larger space. Whenever I'm in there the place is just packed. No leisurely browsing because you're elbow-to-elbow with other customers shopping or getting their hardware repaired.

 

[haydn!]

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It's English. Actual English.

Rather than keep on refurbishing UK stores, they should look to open even more. Nottingham could really do with one... even if there is 3 within an hours drive.

 

[toucanjake]

Apple Store Natick in MA is closed for remodeling.

 

[SoggyCheese]

"How white the walls are..."

That's the store that hasn't been done yet. The Covent Garden Store, which IMO is FAR superior to the extremely sterile product-vacuum over on Regent St.

This upcoming refurb is a shame, because I've been using Covent Garden pretty much exclusively for the past couple of years, even though I work at the western end of Soho. I don't like the new design.

 

[Candlelight]

This just in, New Zealand still doesn't have one.

 

[Tech198]

"How white the walls are..."

yuk...

 

[imageWIS]

You're desingenous so I cant take anything you say seriously considering what came out since then.

With Apple's relatively low PE ratio, that seemingly follows profits/revenues unlike other tech companies and Apple's margins, there is a link.

Company Valuation for a company that's a thriving concern = present value of future cash streams with irr X.
You can't keep up this high cash flow with current margins and you can't keep current margins without innovation, good service and generally good products.

Unless you think people with the highest demos (Apple clients) all only idiots (except you off course...) while buying Apple products and going against their best interests in doing so.

It's simple, you can't charge a high margin for a very long time if people think your product is "crap" or "bad": that's it.
Any other definition you pull out of your rump doesn't matter to business, innovation and economics.

Tesla. Any other questions?

 

[SimonTheSoundMa]

One of my local stores in Birmingham UK has been updated. It removes much of the confusion when purchasing or needed to see a Genius after they got rid of tills and Genius Bars. They have kiiled the concept making the stores a meeting up and social space however.

 

[BrettArchibald]

That's the store that hasn't been done yet. The Covent Garden Store, which IMO is FAR superior to the extremely sterile product-vacuum over on Regent St.

This upcoming refurb is a shame, because I've been using Covent Garden pretty much exclusively for the past couple of years, even though I work at the western end of Soho. I don't like the new design.

Yep, I know it's the Covent Garden store. I used to work in Covent Garden a few years ago.
I like the Apple Store there. It's quirky and has character, but I'll admit, it's not a very "Apple-like character"...

 

[ThiGeever]

No Apple Store in the UAE is larger than the one in Covent Garden. All that hype about the new Dubai store being the biggest in the world was a lie.

 

[SemperMac]

Hmmmmmm, all in all very lovely .... but we still do NOT have one single APPLE STORE in Copenhagen (København) = the capital of The Kingdom of Denmark ... if Apple would maybe build this first and then continue with the renovation of other Apple Stores around the world, thank you!!!