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Grand Central Terminal Packed for Apple Retail Store Opening

Samsung eat your heart out. You can make fun of this, but secretly you wish,.... Oh boy you sooo wish ;)
 
I don't get it, but then again I'm a tad older than that crowd.

What's in that particular store that you can't see, experience or buy at any other Apple Store? It must simply be about the "being there" experience.
 
New Yorkers can handle busy crowd very well, they navigate between them to their train / subway / street.
 
Wow that's a pretty big crowd! :eek: New Apple Store Openning + Holiday Shopping Season + Grand Central Station NY = Massivly large crowd!

I would not want to run through CCS right now to catch a train or a bus and run into/through that! :rolleyes:
 
Everyone you see in those photos in the main concourse beneath the stairs are just gawkers, media and passer-bys. The actual line to get in was off to the side, hidden from view. Every now and then they'd herd in a group to climb up the stairs to the store.
 
I distinctly recall, just the other day, someone on here whining "this store won't do a damn thing to increase foot traffic." how do you like them Apples? :eek:
 
Envious

This is what MS wants so bad. Yet when given the choice and some money, people won't go their store or buy their POS. So the only way to get people to show up is give away tickets, money, whatever. Thats how MS rolls. :p
 
Besides the red shirts I'd say that's the scene at Grand Central Terminal on any given business day. The only reason so many stopped was to stare at the giant mass of red shirted people.
 
MSFT Stores

I am sure the next Microsoft store opening will have the same if not larger crowd!!

;)

Do they still even have stores? Still line dance? I have never gone to one and do not even know where the closest one to me is.

....as I write this my Win7 virtual machine is not coming up in Fusion on my Mac....darn you MS!
 
Is this the same side of the terminal where Kodak had its Colorama for all those years (through 1990)?
 
GCT not GCS

Commuters are well adept at dealing with crowds like this, which can be this bad for any number of other reasons. Most never pass through this level of the terminal during their commute, heading directly to their subway or bus connection or the street.
BTW, New Yorkers will point out that this is Grand Central Terminal. Grand Central Station is the Post Office on the south side of 42nd St.
It's one of the ways we ID the uninitiated, like HOWstun vs. YOUston St., Hell's Kitchen vs. Clinton, or 6th Ave. vs. Avenue of the Americas.
 
Yesterday I left work late (after 10PM) and walked over the the 5th Avenue Cube in NY. Place was packed with people. Mostly European Tourists but packed for 10PM which blew my mind.

Grand Central is mobbed normally so this is extra nutty. Very cool but i'm sure it echos like crazy in there.
 
INSANITY! =O

Reminds me of when I went to a huge two-story Barnes & Noble for Harry Potter Book 7 release.
There were so many people riding the escalator, it broke and they actually had to kick out a good 200 people because the store was so over crowded.
 
richardk32 said:
Commuters are well adept at dealing with crowds like this, which can be this bad for any number of other reasons. Most never pass through this level of the terminal during their commute, heading directly to their subway or bus connection or the street.
BTW, New Yorkers will point out that this is Grand Central Terminal. Grand Central Station is the Post Office on the south side of 42nd St.
It's one of the ways we ID the uninitiated, like HOWstun vs. YOUston St., Hell's Kitchen vs. Clinton, or 6th Ave. vs. Avenue of the Americas.
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haha love it. It's definitley a Terminal. and yes tourists call it a station.

Beyonce calls it Grand Central Station in that Lady Gaga song Telephone. always Annoys me. Trains "Terminate" here. This is the last stop. This is not a station.
 
richardk32 said:
Commuters are well adept at dealing with crowds like this, which can be this bad for any number of other reasons. Most never pass through this level of the terminal during their commute, heading directly to their subway or bus connection or the street.
BTW, New Yorkers will point out that this is Grand Central Terminal. Grand Central Station is the Post Office on the south side of 42nd St.
It's one of the ways we ID the uninitiated, like HOWstun vs. YOUston St., Hell's Kitchen vs. Clinton, or 6th Ave. vs. Avenue of the Americas.
Click to expand...

You actually differentiate between the two? I and most ppl I know just say Grand Central.
 
It's not like lemmings cliff diving just because others are - for the most part people line up for Apple store openings and product intros because Apple makes and markets great products. They've done a great job marketing this new store and the press, whether it was good or bad (like the MTS/attorney general issue), further highlight and enhance their brand.

For the Apple haters, this success further pushes them over the edge in the chasm of hate.
 
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