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New Apple Store Opening in Ohio This Weekend

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Apple is opening a revamped store this weekend at Crocker Park, an outdoor shopping center in the Cleveland suburb Westlake, Ohio.

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The typical design of a newer Apple Store​

The new store opens on Saturday, March 22 at 10 a.m. local time, according to Apple's website.

Apple's new store at Crocker Park will be larger and more modern than its original store at the shopping center, which first opened in 2008. At many of Apple's newer stores, there is an Apple Pickup station where customers can collect online orders, along with a Genius Bar with counters set at varied heights for improved accessibility.

"Get ready," says Apple. "Great things are in store."

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Wow, that’s an awesome store!

My Dad is originally from Cleveland and all of my relatives on my Dad’s side of the family still live in Cleveland so I will have to let them know about this new store opening this weekend

I’m planning on going to Cleveland in May for Memorial Day weekend so if I get a chance, I’ll check out this new store!
 
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ghanwani said:
Gone are the days when I was excited about visiting a store and ogling at Apple gear.
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Design has pretty much "plateaued". I was in an Apple store this weekend, and everything looked the same as it has the last 4 to 5 years. The only thing that would have interested me is if they made a version of the new M4 MacBook Air with a killer photographer's dream display option for it.

A foldable iPhone or iPad would be nice to oogle at, but the benefits are probably not worth the price.
 
Exponent said:
Design has pretty much "plateaued". I was in an Apple store this weekend, and everything looked the same as it has the last 4 to 5 years. The only thing that would have interested me is if they made a version of the new M4 MacBook Air with a killer photographer's dream display option for it.

A foldable iPhone or iPad would be nice to oogle at, but the benefits are probably not worth the price.
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I don’t know, I just got back from Miami and went to the new WorldCenter Apple Store that they just opened in the downtown area and Apple’s new Miami store is one of their first stores to have the Vision Pro demo room setup so my Dad and I got to try out Vision Pro for the first time and it was pretty cool
 

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ghanwani said:
Gone are the days when I was excited about visiting a store and ogling at Apple gear.
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Sadly, same here. I work only a few blocks from our city's arguably best/biggest Apple store, and I haven't set foot in there in years.

I'm happy that new areas are getting them because I know how handy it is to have a local retail store around when you need something serviced. But the sales channels have changed in recent years, so you're often going to get far better pricing if you DON'T buy from Apple retail stores. (I mean, even 8 years ago or so, I saved $1000 on a brand new iMac Pro when I bought their "base" configuration from Micro Center. Apple retail, to my knowledge, never sold one anywhere near that big of a discounted price.)

But it's also about the lack of compelling new products to experience in person before buying. I guess the Apple VR headset was probably the last such product where it made sense to go to a retail store to see what it was about in person? But even with it, I had no interest in it personally. We're long past the days where you could go in to the Apple Store on any given week and see new software titles on their shelves or interesting new 3rd. party products on display that worked with the Mac or iOS devices. (I even bought a radar detector once at an Apple store, because it was Bluetooth paired to the iPhone and used a native iOS app.)
 
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Being 10 minutes away from this store, I can tell you that it isn't expanding because it serves dozens of MacRumors nerds like me, but rather the tens of thousands of suburbanites who just want to walk in, be easily "wowed", buy something at list price (or fix a problem that could easily have been solved with a Google search), and then get on with their lives. I'll bet fewer than 10% could tell you a single differentiating factor of the M4, M4 Pro, M4 Max....or the "brand new" M3 Ultra.

Part of me envies them.

And part of me pities them because they can't fully appreciate how cool it is to watch iStat tell me that I'm using all of my GPU cores on some background process.

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Exponent said:
Design has pretty much "plateaued". I was in an Apple store this weekend, and everything looked the same as it has the last 4 to 5 years. The only thing that would have interested me is if they made a version of the new M4 MacBook Air with a killer photographer's dream display option for it.

A foldable iPhone or iPad would be nice to oogle at, but the benefits are probably not worth the price.
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Everyone I go in the closest Apple Store to me it’s packed solid full of people. Was so crazy, took me 20 mins to check out and all I wanted was a USB-c mouse.
 
It looks nice, but I do hope that Google opens more stores to compete with apple. They have a few now scattered across a couple states, but maybe they could pick up the pace slightly.
 
kingtj1971 said:
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I'm happy that new areas are getting them because I know how handy it is to have a local retail store around when you need something serviced. But the sales channels have changed in recent years, so you're often going to get far better pricing if you DON'T buy from Apple retail stores. (I mean, even 8 years ago or so, I saved $1000 on a brand new iMac Pro when I bought their "base" configuration from Micro Center. Apple retail, to my knowledge, never sold one anywhere near that big of a discounted price.)
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You can usually get Apple to match Best Buy or even Amazon Prices up to 10%.

While I agree it's good to have a store, the service is severely lacking. Even with a modest number of customers, you have to get in line and wait even for purchasing a device and typically takes 20min to an hour. Genius Bar service is out of question without an appointment. And even when you make an appointment, you could still have to wait around for 20min or longer beyond the appointment time before someone attends to you. And it's not like the sales associates or Geniuses are knowledgeable. For anyone spending time on MR, we will know more about the devices (when buying) and more about potential problems with the device (when servicing). Chances are high that they will provide incorrect information about a device or service plan or service cost, only to be discovered later.

Apple retails stores need a major overhaul in how they operate, but before that their product line needs a major overhaul.
 
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That is awesome! That is the store that is near me. Excited to see if they moved it and what it will look like! Thanks Apple!
 
anakin44011 said:
Being 10 minutes away from this store, I can tell you that it isn't expanding because it serves dozens of MacRumors nerds like me, but rather the tens of thousands of suburbanites who just want to walk in, be easily "wowed", buy something at list price (or fix a problem that could easily have been solved with a Google search), and then get on with their lives. I'll bet fewer than 10% could tell you a single differentiating factor of the M4, M4 Pro, M4 Max....or the "brand new" M3 Ultra.

Part of me envies them.

And part of me pities them because they can't fully appreciate how cool it is to watch iStat tell me that I'm using all of my GPU cores on some background process.

🤓
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I picked up my rMBP from the older iteration of this store when I lived in that area - I worked for the major employer in town for a few years, I know you know who that is. You couldn't be more right about who visits that store, and Crocker Park in general. Boring people in a boring store. Huge Mac fan, went in there ONCE over all the years I lived very nearby.
 
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I picked up my rMBP from the older iteration of this store when I lived in that area - I worked for the major employer in town for a few years, I know you know who that is. You couldn't be more right about who visits that store, and Crocker Park in general. Boring people in a boring store. Huge Mac fan, went in there ONCE over all the years I lived very nearby.
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Totally FALSE statement about who visits that store or any Apple Store. I am a total Apple nerd and have been for years and visit that store and the East side store many times throughout the year. Might be to see new products, get an accessory or Apple warranty work or someone in my family accidentally breaks their phone or other product.

Employees are great at that store too and definitely not boring! 😄
 
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So I'll make it easy for anyone going and not sure where it is. The new store is located literally between Barnes & Noble and The Cheesecake Factory. It's in Key Building (the old salon).
 
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