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Many Apple Stores Set to Receive Overnight Makeover on May 16

In this store every display iPad has the homepage set for kilts.com

If you order the product red kilt Apple will donate the proceeds to the "real men wear kilts" fund.
 
fitshaced said:
Apple stores are already unbearable places. I agree that this is a staged photo and a very unlikely scene due to the kilt.

I think Apple Store employees are the most annoying sales staff. I'd rather they were rude than this over familiar type who want to be super helpful and are 'amazed' by how good the product is and know all about it as their boyfriend or mom bought one last week and was blown away by it.

If I want to buy something there and I pick it up and approach you so I can pay for it, you don't need to sell it to me. You have my card in your hand!

Yes, I'm a total grinch in shops.
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Actually, you seem more like a prick than a grinch. The internet was made for your kind.
 
MacRumors said:
Apple plans to replace its existing accessory shelves in each store with what it calls the Avenue, as pictured above, a person familiar with the matter said. Apple will also be adding more "feature bays" to each store for displaying products and accessories, and new stools for the Genius Bar and other seating areas.
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Too bad none of these facelifts will increase the desire to enter in an AppleStore, and my latest transaction reinforced that idea. I ordered a MBP travel adapter, paid online, and said I was going to pick up in store. I got the email stating that my order was ready for pickup, so I made the drive and walked in to the AppleStore to find that they were anything but ready. I had to flag someone down to actually do something since apparently everyone is a floater, when I did get an employee to pull up my order, he said that it's in the back of the store. No, not easily accessible, not ready for pickup, somewhere in the back of the store, and it took him five minutes to actually find my product.

I used to enjoy just walking around the AppleStore, but now they've become exactly what Apple was rebelling against - sterile stores with people who are as aggressive as perfume salespeople.
 
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I hope the new Birmingham UK store gets a makeover.

It's a lovely building but the inside feels like a warehouse. It was supposed to fit the new brief but there's no interactive "windows" and no plants/foliage. There's just row after row of light wood tables.

It feels like GAP just cleared out their stock and "computer club" set up.
 
Wow, Angela at her best !
Rearranging disfunctional luxury, like with Burberry's, with its stationary product gamma for some 100 years.
However: if there is a person capable to get those trees accustomed to heavy bearded lady-foresters, it's her (...)
Worth every penny.
 
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Foxer said:
You know, once there was a time when I enjoyed going to the Apple Store. It actually made me want to go to the mall. When I went to new cities for work, I would seek out the Apple Stores. They sold their own products (which were refreshed a couple times a year), but also sold lots of third party software and peripherals. They had books and magazines. The bigger stores had theaters with seats and you could sit in on a class. Remember those iPod jackets? Remember when they sold Palm PDAs? It was fun to go, and there would probably be new stuff to see.

I don't recall when that ended era ended, exactly, but now I don't even go in the store when I'm at the mall. I just walk past. There is no point. All the stores have exactly the same things, and I know exactly what they are. And they're all filled with shoppers that seem happy with that. And staff that don't seem interested in engaging me. I go there when I want to see a new product, which isn't very often, or when I need to get something fixed. What used to be a great, destination store in which I could spend hours is now pointless and depressing.
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Agreed. I loved going to the Apple Store but now it's lost it's flare. Good for new customers I'm sure.
 
True story, I was at the Marketstreet Apple store in Massachusetts and they actually had someone working there wearing a kilt. :eek:

Maybe its a thing
 
maflynn said:
True story, I was at the Marketstreet Apple store in Massachusetts and they actually had someone working there wearing a kilt. :eek:Maybe its a thing
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Sure it is.
Terrific ventilation and a myriad of options for the less fruitful moments (...)
 
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I had heard a rumor that the two story stores were going to have clear glass floors on the second floor like you were walking on air. This kilt thing has me wondering if they have really thought this out properly.
 
MacRumors said:
A customer interested in purchasing an accessory that isn't readily shelved can simply ask an employee, who will grab it from the back.
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Awesome! My favorite part of going into an Apple Store is waiting for an available employee to do something I could otherwise do myself in seconds. Will I need an appointment to buy that USB-C to lightning dongle?
 
VeryVito said:
Awesome! My favorite part of going into an Apple Store is waiting for an available employee to do something I could otherwise do myself in seconds. Will I need an appointment to buy that USB-C to lightning dongle?
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That's where the certified Dongelists come in. They're geniuses in dongles.
They think dongle's. They know dongle's. They eat dongle's. They dream dongle's.
You get free advice, free coffee, check mail, but you'll leave with a dongle => it's DongleFest !!
Oooah so excited - Today at Apple
 
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Apple needs to make their macs like kilts- greater airflow down their and exposed to the elements
 
Bacillus said:
That's where the certified Dongelists come in. They're geniuses in dongles.
They think dongle's. They know dongle's. They eat dongle's. They dream dongle's.
You get free advice, free coffee, check mail, but you'll leave with a dongle => it's DongleFest !!
Oooah so excited - Today at Apple
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Apparently it's also UnnecessaryApostropheFest!
 
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So what happened? Black curtains went up at Apple Stores last night. Nobody is talking about it today. Did these stores get those overnight renovations as rumoured? What do they look like?

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