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International Apple Stores: Canada, UK, Australia

Winnipeg Plz : p Preferably St Vital Centre, then i could walk there : D

I'd expect one in Edmonton, West Edmonton Mall, It's the biggest mall in North America and doesn't have an Apple Store !! : O
 
Glasgow Store

foofighter44 said:
I've been through the recruitment process for the Glasgow store, sadly got rejected at the very last stage... ("As a company, we are not able to provide specific feedback other than we hired those candidates that we felt were most qualified and appropriate for the particular positions we were recruiting for")
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Been through the same process for the Glasgow store recruitment - very poor interview. I was up for a 'Creative' job so the tiny room was full of creative types trying to showcase their music, movies etc but we had to be very quiet as the room was borrowed and the office staff next door were complaining about the noise. They provided a crappy projector attached to an ancient laptop - and with no blinds the image (1 foot x 2 foot) was hardly visible.
(I am not exagerating).
The two Apple people interviewing were both finance/personnel so didn't know anything about the programmes being discussed.

Not quite what I expected.
 
w00t! I live in Montreal!

There is actually an apple store in Laval which is very close by. I'm surprised they're opening another one since only ontario has apple stores -none of the other provinces have them!

Ste-Catherine Ouest is a nice area, but some parts of the street are sketch...the apple store is definitely in a higher-profile section.

Can't wait!
 
Patch^ said:
We need one in Bournemouth UK, the media school, art institute and many design and media business runs on macs in the area, I think it would do well if Bournemouth had one, there is a couple Apple resellers, but an official Apple store would be better.

But the news of more Apple stores in the UK and worldwide is good!!
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I hear ya! Right now we got that crappy shop on old christchurch road and the kids with the fancy hair in there don't really know what they're talking about.

"Milton Keynes Central shopping mall; Solihull; Exeter's Princesshay centre; Brighton's Church Hill Square; Reading's The Oracle site; Glasgow's Buchanan Street; and Essex's Lakeside shopping centre."

Really? Why?
 
w00t for living in Montreal.

I know someone that works at Mens. I can't wait for it to come to Montreal. I'm going to be in line on the opening. Hopefully I'll get a free T-shirt.
 
AlBDamned said:
As far as I can tell, The Register is wrong in that they're currently recruiting for stores in Australia. Can't see any adverts anywhere. I remember similar stories when the stores were first announced but there's nothing on the Apple.com.au website. Maybe the ads are in other classifieds somewhere.

With regard to Sydney, there's a couple of places in George Street it could be (with mass-building going on), but at this stage it's impossible to tell for sure.
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You can find jobs at the Sydney store here:

http://www.apple.com/jobs/au/index.html

I'm trying on black turtlenecks and Converse and practicing my "booms!"

The store will be over three floors of the old Westpac Bank building at 367 George St. The building has been rebranded as 77 King St (it's on the corner) just to confuse everybody. The refit will cost A$15.4 million, which is a lot of Nanos if you think about it (77,387 to be precise).
 
Phormic said:
You can find jobs at the Sydney store here:

http://www.apple.com/jobs/au/index.html

I'm trying on black turtlenecks and Converse and practicing my "booms!"

The store will be over three floors of the old Westpac Bank building at 367 George St. The building has been rebranded as 77 King St (it's on the corner) just to confuse everybody. The refit will cost A$15.4 million, which is a lot of Nanos if you think about it (77,387 to be precise).
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Cool, that link was broken yesterday. I take it all back... :)
 
But where is the swedish apple store!?!

My home town which I think is the sixth largest in Sweden doesn't even have a store which sells Apple machines at all afaik.

If I where rich I could had started one ;D
 
Antares said:
Perhaps this is a similar to other manufacturers. Like in Indonesia...where people work in a Nike plant but can't afford to buy the shoes that they, themselves, manufacture. Or like the Island of Fiji.
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Fiji is actually made up of 2 main Islands with Viti Levu being the larger main island which is just south of Vanua Levu. They are surrounded by thousands of smaller islands.
http://www.mapsouthpacific.com/fiji/index.html
 
For those supporting the idea of an Apple Store in Ottawa I thank you. I'm from Ottawa but currently reside in Calgary. It would be great to see and Apple Store in Canada's Capital city. C'mon Apple Ottawa deserves one.:)

They were going to put one here in Calgary but due to issues with Chinook Centre management they pulled out of the deal. I heard one reason Apple ended up not putting one in Chinook is because each store space has structural support pillars for the building and Apple didn't like it because it would interfere with the "look" of the store.

In any event hopefully Apple will put more stores in Canada. And yes when will Apple give us Canadians the ability to download movies and TV shows from the iTunes store??:mad:
 
AidenShaw said:
I think that they look for hotties first, then for qualifications.

I've talked to too many adorable, but lame-brained, geniuses....
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Umm... what have you been doing in Apple stores talking to geniuses? You don't even use a Mac, do you?

As far as the next location in Canada goes, I read somewhere that the GM of Chinook Centre in Calgary had said that Apple was opening a store there this year - I wonder if that got canned because of his premature announcement. :(

Edit: didn't see bigpoppa's post before I posted this...
 
They've been advertising for staff here in Sydney for a couple of months, so hardly news. didn't know where the store was going or when, though.
I did post to MacRumors, so they would've known too.
 
bentley said:
I pray for a Leeds store.

I've had the 3 hour round trip to Sheffield Meadowhall 5 times this past year to get various things fixed.
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Agreed. Leeds has a population of over 700,000 and and over a million live in the metropolitan area. Why does Manchester get TWO stores?
 
bobrik said:
It makes an impression on me that Apple are rasists. Stores in Canada, USA, Australia, UK - you see how these are exactly just countries with English as first language? I know it's because it has many buyers there, but still makes an uncomfortable impression on me that Apple looks down on me as a second class citizen just because my native language is not English.

Come on Apple, more stores in Central Europe! Prague is waiting for you!
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"Rasists" [sic]? If you mean discrimination on the grounds of language spoken, surely it would be "Linguists"??? :D
As far as I know, the Polish are the same Caucasian "race" as most of Europe and America, where the stores are (along with those darn French and Japanese speakers). It has more to do with where the premium market is, and not growing too quickly.
I use "race" in quotes, as it's a spurious concept, genetically speaking, as there are no subgroups to the Human Race. It's a relatively modern concept. The eugenics movement is long since discredited.
 
the-fat-man@hot said:
Been through the same process for the Glasgow store recruitment - very poor interview. I was up for a 'Creative' job so the tiny room was full of creative types trying to showcase their music, movies etc but we had to be very quiet as the room was borrowed and the office staff next door were complaining about the noise. They provided a crappy projector attached to an ancient laptop - and with no blinds the image (1 foot x 2 foot) was hardly visible.
(I am not exagerating).
The two Apple people interviewing were both finance/personnel so didn't know anything about the programmes being discussed.

Not quite what I expected.
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I went for the specialist job which is basically a shop floor monkey with a little product knowledge. The room i was in however, was packed with creative types that hadn't got as far as yourself and 10 mobile phone sales people. The apple recruiters seemed like they knew the business to me, one was a store manager in england, another was the uk recruitment representative, but they could have prepared better.

The bit that scared me the most though was the training process which looked to me like it involved reciting mantras and motivational things like the haka. Basically it's exactly like Gap but with decent products
 
queshy said:
w00t! I live in Montreal!

There is actually an apple store in Laval which is very close by. I'm surprised they're opening another one since only ontario has apple stores -none of the other provinces have them!

Ste-Catherine Ouest is a nice area, but some parts of the street are sketch...the apple store is definitely in a higher-profile section.

Can't wait!
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The store at Laval ain't a "flagship" one... This means a high profile store, maybe with an architectural overhaul!
 
msandersen said:
They've been advertising for staff here in Sydney for a couple of months, so hardly news. didn't know where the store was going or when, though.
I did post to MacRumors, so they would've known too.
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Store going in on George St

Just phoned Apple Australia and they can't advise when store will open.
 
FINALLY!

I'm going to beg for a job.

I just wonder where Mens is going too move to, guess I'll have to go ask.

Hmm it would be interesting, the day it opens. The iPhone would be for sale in Canada. That's just me.
 
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