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That's because NO ONE lives there lol. No traffic = No citizens. Logistics... not rocket science.

I obviously understand that.

I'm just saying...yes, I'm far away from major retailers but my daily life means less traffic, less daily stress, etc. so there are benefits also.

When I want to buy something I either order it online, or I make a day of it and plan to visit various retailers, restaurants, etc. while I'm out. It's no biggie and I do it at least twice a month--sometimes more frequently...just depends.
 
Why are there two different prices, $29 and $39, for the charger? There is only a single charger and it's priced at $29 everywhere else.
 
I obviously understand that.

I'm just saying...yes, I'm far away from major retailers but my daily life means less traffic, less daily stress, etc. so there are benefits also.

When I want to buy something I either order it online, or I make a day of it and plan to visit various retailers, restaurants, etc. while I'm out. It's no biggie and I do it at least twice a month--sometimes more frequently...just depends.

I get that lol.
 
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I suspect it was just this one, which does not mention specific watch brands, but triggered my memory:

Apple has been trying something new for the launch of the Apple Watch. Ahrendts said ahead of the watch's launch that "this is a significant change in mindset, and we need your help to make it happen." Instead of letting people queue outside its stores for the moment the device went on sale (like iPhone launches), Apple wanted a more high-end experience.

Ahrendts has overseen a launch featuring pop-up shops in luxury retailers like Selfridges in London, letting customers try on watches in-store. But you can't buy a watch once you've tried it on, instead you have to go away and order it online.

This particular quote is from http://uk.businessinsider.com/angela-ahrendts-memo-on-apple-watch-coming-to-apple-stores-2015-6
So she was merely talking about the initial launch, and says so explicitly. Assuming that she intended every Apple Watch sold for all time to be a concierge-level experience is stretching beyond credulity. I bought mine last summer from the Apple Store online, and it was delivered by the UPS driver (like most Apple products I buy). No one brought me champaign while I waited for the big brown truck to arrive.
 
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The Watch comes Home: the store where one buys disposable items.
Isn't 99% of what you buy at ANY store disposable?

For the record I don't like to shop at walmart because I don't like how they do business.
 
Walmart Pay ;-)

Exactly. The watch must be in real trouble if Apple is offering it to the worst customer shopping experience imaginable at a company that refuses to accept Pay.

They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel now.

Sorry, but how does Apple have any leverage if they enter into new contracts with a company that isn't reciprocating on other Apple services.
 
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Will it work with Walmart Pay?

Come on Walmart and Target! You guys are carrying watches that obviously support Apple Pay and it is VERY Convenient to pay by waving your watch over the terminal. So ENABLE APPLE PAY!

At least Target currently accepts Pay online has has announced plans to take it. Wan-Mart has basically snubbed their noses at their Apple retail partner, and chosen to go it alone.

The fact Apple would compromise their values to sell a few more of the cheapest watches they make is unconscionable. THey're pushing out unsolicited ads on their own apps, and they're making the watch -- the most personal product Apple has ever offered -- available at the store with the worst customer experience imaginable.

Sad.
 
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The most scary thing I feel is that we have some very sad human beings here that feel they are in a position to judge others simple due to the store they wish to purchase an item from.

You should be shamed of yourself for deeming any other person as less than you due to where they purchase anything.

No person is in any way better than anyone else.

We are all born equal and will all dies equal.

Treat everyone with respect.

The Apple snob factor, which mean that some sad individuals try and pretend that they are in some way better than others is something we all should wish to distance ourselves fri=om as much as possible.
 
The most scary thing I feel is that we have some very sad human beings here that feel they are in a position to judge others simple due to the store they wish to purchase an item from.

You should be shamed of yourself for deeming any other person as less than you due to where they purchase anything.

No person is in any way better than anyone else.

We are all born equal and will all dies equal.

Treat everyone with respect.

The Apple snob factor, which mean that some sad individuals try and pretend that they are in some way better than others is something we all should wish to distance ourselves fri=om as much as possible.


Sadly, the world is full of people who think they are better than everyone else, and this forum is full of them.
 
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Who cares where they sell it? No is going to ask you where you bought it. Apple is still a premium product with the price tag to match.
 
So she was merely talking about the initial launch, and says so explicitly. Assuming that she intended every Apple Watch sold for all time to be a concierge-level experience is stretching beyond credulity. I bought mine last summer from the Apple Store online, and it was delivered by the UPS driver (like most Apple products I buy). No one brought me champaign while I waited for the big brown truck to arrive.

I don't agree Apple should be making new deals to sell new products at Wal-Mart given their current position with Pay. However, I understand making physical purchases available at brick and mortar stores. A customer knows which Watch they want, they stop by Target, grab one off the shelf, pay for it, and they're done. The problem here is that most people like you who know what they want, will just order it online if there's no Apple Store, Best Buy, Target, or Cellular carrier near their homes. But if that's the case, and a customer doesn't even know if they want an Watch, Apple has put even a basic watch buying experience in the hands of poorly trained employees. I can't even imagine going into Wal-Mart or Target and having one of their employees assist me in buy a $400 watch, much less demonstrate the device to me, or show me how it works with my phone. And this is ALL Wal-Mart brings to the table. They bring watches to stores in locations that aren't served by any of Apple's other partners -- and if they haven't already decided they want an Watch, they have Wal-Mart's crack customer service team demonstrating the watches to undecided customers -- watches that are several hundred dollars more expensive than the next most expensive watch they sell. That doesn't resonate with anything Apple has said, or any marketing they've ever done with the watch.
 
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Isn't 99% of what you buy at ANY store disposable?

For the record I don't like to shop at walmart because I don't like how they do business.

I don't understand this line "I don't like how they do business". I don't see much difference between them doing business and Apple doing business. Apple also chokes their supplier with a pre-set price and if the supplier tries to raise the price, Apple moves to a different supplier.

If you say Walmart treats their employees bad, it's all relative. A company won't stay long in business if they treat their employees that bad. We can all whine and object, but if Walmart is such a bad company, why do people work for them? They can all go and work for Target.
 
The most scary thing I feel is that we have some very sad human beings here that feel they are in a position to judge others simple due to the store they wish to purchase an item from.

You should be shamed of yourself for deeming any other person as less than you due to where they purchase anything.

No person is in any way better than anyone else.

We are all born equal and will all dies equal.

Treat everyone with respect.

The Apple snob factor, which mean that some sad individuals try and pretend that they are in some way better than others is something we all should wish to distance ourselves fri=om as much as possible.
I so agree with this. I want to see the expression on an Apple Fan when somebody asks him/her "Did you get that watch from Walmart?":p
 
I don't agree Apple should be making new deals to sell new products at Wal-Mart given their current position with Pay. However, I understand making physical purchases available at brick and mortar stores. A customer knows which Watch they want, they stop by Target, grab one off the shelf, pay for it, and they're done. The problem here is that most people like you who know what they want, will just order it online if there's no Apple Store, Best Buy, Target, or Cellular carrier near their homes. But if that's the case, and a customer doesn't even know if they want an Watch, Apple has put even a basic watch buying experience in the hands of poorly trained employees. I can't even imagine going into Wal-Mart or Target and having one of their employees assist me in buy a $400 watch, much less demonstrate the device to me, or show me how it works with my phone. And this is ALL Wal-Mart brings to the table. They bring watches to stores in locations that aren't served by any of Apple's other partners -- and if they haven't already decided they want an Watch, they have Wal-Mart's crack customer service team demonstrating the watches to undecided customers -- watches that are several hundred dollars more expensive than the next most expensive watch they sell. That doesn't resonate with anything Apple has said, or any marketing they've ever done with the watch.
I don't think Walmart Apple Watch buying experience will be any different than Best Buy Apple Watch buying experience. They are all sold in electronics department, not in Watch department.
 
I don't think Walmart Apple Watch buying experience will be any different than Best Buy Apple Watch buying experience. They are all sold in electronics department, not in Watch department.
You have clearly never shopped at Wal-Mart. Best Buy employees are far better trained than Wal-Mart employees. Electronics department or watch department. Doesn't matter. Best Buy has an integrated Apple Store, Wal-Mart has a aisle with an Apple display that is usually in complete disarray, and if you can find a clerk, they're probably from infant clothing, and are too busy to help you find the right person to help you, who when they finally appear, probably didn't even know they carried Watches, much less how to demonstrate one to you. And you have to wonder if the Wal-Mart salesperson would ever mention that you can use the Watch with Pay, considering Wal-Mart has flipped a big middle finger to their retail partner Apple who has graciously given Wal-Mart the opportunity to sell the watch in the first place.

Sorry, but I'd pick Best Buy any day over Wal-Mart, assuming I had the choice, if I needed some questions answered about an electronic product before I bought one.
 
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I find it so humorous that when the watch first came out the only place you could buy it in person was Maxfield in LA. now Walmart........hmmm......

Ps. I have a apple watch and love it. I find the marketing interesting.
 
You have clearly never shopped at Wal-Mart. Best Buy employees are far better trained than Wal-Mart employees. Electronics department or watch department. Doesn't matter. Best Buy has an integrated Apple Store, Wal-Mart has a aisle with an Apple display that is usually in complete disarray, and if you can find a clerk, they're probably from infant clothing, and are too busy to help you find the right person to help you, who when they finally appear, probably didn't even know they carried Watches, much less how to demonstrate one to you. And you have to wonder if the Wal-Mart salesperson would ever mention that you can use the Watch with Pay, considering Wal-Mart has flipped a big middle finger to their retail partner Apple who has graciously given Wal-Mart the opportunity to sell the watch in the first place.

Sorry, but I'd pick Best Buy any day over Wal-Mart, assuming I had the choice, if I needed some questions answered about an electronic product before I bought one.

Wal-Mart has the nicest, hardest-working retail employees I've ever met. At least at the stores I've gone to. And they are down-to-earth and don't have their heads up their rear-ends.

I like Wal-Mart because of its employees.

I prefer not to make negative reviews about other stores, so I won't say anything.
 
Wal-Mart has the nicest, hardest-working retail employees I've ever met. At least at the stores I've gone to. And they are down-to-earth and don't have their heads up their rear-ends.

I like Wal-Mart because of its employees.

I prefer not to make negative reviews about other stores, so I won't say anything.
I worked at Walmart and I actually knew my stuff working in electronics department and so did the rest of my team. I don't know what Walmarts Mac 128 went to but it surely wasn't my store.
 
The most scary thing I feel is that we have some very sad human beings here that feel they are in a position to judge others simple due to the store they wish to purchase an item from.

You should be shamed of yourself for deeming any other person as less than you due to where they purchase anything.

No person is in any way better than anyone else.

We are all born equal and will all dies equal.

Treat everyone with respect.

The Apple snob factor, which mean that some sad individuals try and pretend that they are in some way better than others is something we all should wish to distance ourselves fri=om as much as possible.
Go back to Reddit with your self righteous superiority shaming. It's a reflection on Wal-Mart itself, not their customers. The store has no business selling such a device and in my opinion shouldn't be selling phones outside of prepay. The employees have about a million too many products to keep up with to be able to deliver a quality buying experience. That is if you can even find an employee.
 
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I don't think Walmart Apple Watch buying experience will be any different than Best Buy Apple Watch buying experience. They are all sold in electronics department, not in Watch department.

At least initially, they won't be sold in any department. They will be available for shipping to your home or shipping to your local store, where you will go to the site to store (or whatever they are calling it now), and pick up a plain brown box with your name and information on it. It is up to you if you want to open it and inspect it in the store before leaving. Nobody there is going to know anything about the watch, nor will there be any training for it. They are simply another conduit for the watch. At least for now. If the watch becomes a common commodity like an iPhone, I can see them selling it behind their counter with trained associates.
 
Go back to Reddit with your self righteous superiority shaming. It's a reflection on Wal-Mart itself, not their customers. The store has no business selling such a device and in my opinion shouldn't be selling phones outside of prepay. The employees have about a million too many products to keep up with to be able to deliver a quality buying experience. That is if you can even find an employee.

Walmart has been selling iPhones, iPads and iPods for a long time so adding the Apple Watch to their current Apple product mix doesn't surprise me very much.
 
I suspect it was just this one, which does not mention specific watch brands, but triggered my memory:

Apple has been trying something new for the launch of the Apple Watch. Ahrendts said ahead of the watch's launch that "this is a significant change in mindset, and we need your help to make it happen." Instead of letting people queue outside its stores for the moment the device went on sale (like iPhone launches), Apple wanted a more high-end experience.

Ahrendts has overseen a launch featuring pop-up shops in luxury retailers like Selfridges in London, letting customers try on watches in-store. But you can't buy a watch once you've tried it on, instead you have to go away and order it online.

This particular quote is from http://uk.businessinsider.com/angela-ahrendts-memo-on-apple-watch-coming-to-apple-stores-2015-6

Here is an article about Ahrendts and her plans for the Apple Watch Shopping experience:
http://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen...watch-already-has-an-exclusive-price-tag.html
 
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