Five New Apple Retail Stores Opening Around the World

[MacRumors]

As we reported, Apple is opening 5 new retail stores on Saturday. The new stores include two U.S. locations and three international ones. We received some early photos from some of the locations:

Murray, Utah (Thanks Eric)



Southland in Australia (Thanks Andrew)​

Due to the time zone differences, the Australian store has already launched to a packed crowd.

Italy's I GIGLI shopping center is actually tweeting live Apple Store opening photos already, as its early Saturday morning in that location at the time of publication:

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The remaining locations are in Canada and the U.S. and will start their openings over the next 12 hours.

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[iVeBeenDrinkin']

Thank God there's another store in Utah.

 

[revnja]

Twelve hours until our Anchorage store opens! It's about time we got an Apple Store...

 

[canestrini]

Forgot a few...

...new ones in China.

 

[beebler]

They need to open more in Japan.

 

[AppleScruff1]

Is this going to be a national holiday?

 

[iVeBeenDrinkin']

New fake ones in China

 

[hamshi]

Cheltenham is not the store guys, its Southland in Melbourne

EDIT: The suburb is Cheltenham but the store is named Southland

 

[Stang]

Thank God there's another store in Utah.

I think you mean "Thank Joseph Smith there's another store in Utah."

Get it? #mormonjoke

 

[MultiMediaWill]

Apple should open a store in Nigeria so they can stop emailing me.

 

[rgarjr]

lots of new candy stores opening up.

 

[haruhiko]

One will be opened in Hong Kong too.

 

[Tim9724]

Twelve hours until our Anchorage store opens! It's about time we got an Apple Store...

Which I were there I'm at home in juneau sobbing in my pillow

 

[likemyorbs]

I think you mean "Thank Joseph Smith there's another store in Utah."

Get it? #mormonjoke

That's all i think about when i think of Utah as well.

Apple should open a store in Nigeria so they can stop emailing me.

No way, the Apple logo would be a teaser to the starving population, that would just be cruel.

 

[MacNewsFix]

...new ones in china.

lol!

 

[BraytonAK]

Which I were there I'm at home in juneau sobbing in my pillow

Any wise person will wait until Monday at the least. People will be bat **** crazy there this weekend. It's not worth the headache, imo.

I'm certainly happy to see a real Apple store, even though I don't have much need to go there. I've been to one of the other two Apple-authorized stores in town and it just creeped me out. They also ripped off a friend of mine. I've heard nothing good about the other reseller, either.

Some good old fashioned competition might stir them into shape.

 

[bushman4]

Lets all stop and realize that Apple is the only company in this global meltdown that is opening new stores globally, innovating new products, improving customer experience and really on top of their game.
Even when the economy was better most companies just sat back and tried to capitalize on what they already had.



Apple cerainly is an amazing company with great leadership and devoted employees.

 

[flottenheimer]

I'll repeat this endlessly:

Dear Apple,

Please open your first Apple Store in Denmark (Copenhagen).
Why you're not here already simply baffles me. We're a high-income
Apple lovin' place.

 

[likemyorbs]

I'll repeat this endlessly:

Dear Apple,

Please open your first Apple Store in Denmark (Copenhagen).
Why you're not here already simply baffles me. We're a high-income
Apple lovin' place.

Maybe Steve got food poisoning after eating a danish at some point in his life.

 

[hebbis2]

The new stories include two U.S. locations and three international ones.

I think you meant stores, not stories.

 

[WardC]

Chinese Steve Jobs has pulled off the ultimate in store counterfeiting, opening these new fake Apple stores in the USA and Canada, the secret (that we all know) is they are really run by the Chinese and they are not real Apple Stores. I think it takes a little more from Apple now than a glowing fruit logo and wooden tables (and blue shirted workers) to convince us they are real stores. Heck, how would you know anyways?

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I think you meant stores, not stories.

The story is that these are real stores, when they are really just more Chinese knock-offs.

 

[iAppleseed]

Wow... Apple stores look so much better than Apple Authorized Resellers.

 

[the8thark]

These stores look lovely. So jealous.
I can't wait next year for the flagship Brisbane store coming next year (being built as we speak). This Brisbane store will be the first official store (And not reseller) I will be at).

 

[wordoflife]

They might as well open a few in China

 

[revnja]

I'm certainly happy to see a real Apple store, even though I don't have much need to go there. I've been to one of the other two Apple-authorized stores in town and it just creeped me out.

I am also happy to see a real Apple Store, although I probably won't visit it this weekend -- I'm betting its going to be crazy. Of our two independent store, Alaska Mac Store is the best but that's not saying much and MacHaus has some of the worst customer service staff I have ever seen. They also require your mailing address, phone number and all kinds of other crazy stuff when you want to purchase something. The Apple Store being here is definitely beneficial because before this, the best place to purchase a Mac or any kind of Apple product (other than online, of course) was Best Buy. *shudder*