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Downtown Toronto is About to Get a New Apple Store [Updated]

About time! Eaton Centre store is great but totally, totally packed- I count easily 100 staff there on typical weekend evening. Here's hoping we get a flagship, too (so we have some more "NYC stuff")!
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lunarworks said:
This is ten years overdue, honestly. The store is absolutely packed at the best of times. I don't know the thought process behind having only one tiny store in the downtown of North America's fourth largest city.


It helps that it has two subway stations connected to it, and is in the heaviest pedestrian area in Canada. This isn't like some suburban mall surrounded by a sea of parking, it's in a thriving downtown core.
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Totally agree! Also in the fourth-largest city in North America (1= Mexico City, 2= NYC, 3= LA?) so that helps, too.
 
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In this case, is it better not to pick up in that store if ordering a built to order MBP 16”? If ordering this week, should be delivered to store first half of December.
 
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hajime said:
In this case, is it better not to pick up in that store if ordering a built to order MBP 16”? If ordering this week, should be delivered to store first half of December.
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depends what pickup options the online store lets you choose, no?
 
damienyyz said:
depends what pickup options the online store lets you choose, no?
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I planned to choose Eaton Centre store but they may move things around during the moving and thus increase chance of dropping. Also stores may be closed during the transition.
 
The Eaton Centre and Square One stores are both nightmares and have been for years.

Eaton Centre = Too small, heavy foot traffic, and the only store in downtown Toronto.
Square One = The only store in Mississauga (or Peel Region for that matter) which also serves Brampton, Milton, and possibly Oakville, over 1.3 million people. There are normally no genius bar appointments available (booked solid for one week out).

I find Sherway Gardens the best one. Good location and spacious enough that you can at least move around most of the time.
 
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Apple's presence in Toronto is downright embarassing, even with this new larger store included. How is there still no flagship and only ONE location in all of downtown??
 
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hajime said:
In this case, is it better not to pick up in that store if ordering a built to order MBP 16”? If ordering this week, should be delivered to store first half of December.
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picking up is fine. You can tell the person at the front that you are there to pick up an order and they will direct you where to go bypassing the lines.
 
r.d said:
The Eaton Centre and Square One stores are both nightmares and have been for years.

Eaton Centre = Too small, heavy foot traffic, and the only store in downtown Toronto.
Square One = The only store in Mississauga (or Peel Region for that matter) which also serves Brampton, Milton, and possibly Oakville, over 1.3 million people. There are normally no genius bar appointments available (booked solid for one week out).

I find Sherway Gardens the best one. Good location and spacious enough that you can at least move around most of the time.
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Yorkdale isn't bad either. A few times I've made an appointment at Yorkdale because Eaton Centre would take longer, sometimes over a week.
 
coolfactor said:
Still amazed that the Eaton Centre is busiest shopping mall in North America, which covers the US, too. I wonder if some Americans cross the border much like Canadians do into Detroit?
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All the time. If not for being asked what I’m doing... it’s no different than driving into a different state/province.
 
mech986 said:
Tastier though.



Mostly empty Microsoft stores. The Samsung stores in North America are very few and far between so far.
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The toilet in Samsung store has large screen TV so we could enjoy our tome there.
 
Yup, that was the only Apple Store I've seen in my last vacation journey to Canada. And now that I think of it, it looked like it needed some extra space.
 
r.d said:
The Eaton Centre and Square One stores are both nightmares and have been for years.

Eaton Centre = Too small, heavy foot traffic, and the only store in downtown Toronto.
Square One = The only store in Mississauga (or Peel Region for that matter) which also serves Brampton, Milton, and possibly Oakville, over 1.3 million people. There are normally no genius bar appointments available (booked solid for one week out).

I find Sherway Gardens the best one. Good location and spacious enough that you can at least move around most of the time.
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The funny thing though. Up in Markham the Apple store in Markville Mall is always dead.
 
rixax said:
It may be the only Apple Store but I get most of my gear and support from Jump Plus at College and Spadina. They were the first apple dealers. https://shop.jumpplus.com
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originally Carbon Computing I believe back in 2001.

Apple really needs this extra space yet it’ll not be enough just double the people will visit daily.
Too bad really good door crashed are a a thing of the past.
 
Reason077 said:
The Eaton Centre is North America's busiest shopping mall? Really?!
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52 million people a year visit Eaton Centre. And the Apple store's sales are so big that when the mall operator looks at mall sales they have to remove Apple sales because it skews all the averages.
 
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r.d said:
The Eaton Centre and Square One stores are both nightmares and have been for years.

Eaton Centre = Too small, heavy foot traffic, and the only store in downtown Toronto.
Square One = The only store in Mississauga (or Peel Region for that matter) which also serves Brampton, Milton, and possibly Oakville, over 1.3 million people. There are normally no genius bar appointments available (booked solid for one week out).

I find Sherway Gardens the best one. Good location and spacious enough that you can at least move around most of the time.
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sherway is caldo not so readily accessible by public transit. It is but not on easy frequent routes. Also not on a subway line.
 
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