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New Apple Store Opens in UK, Another Coming Soon in Ohio

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Apple recently shared photos of its revamped store at Trafford Centre, a shopping mall located outside of Manchester in the United Kingdom.

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The store features Apple's latest retail design, with lots of wood paneling.

There is a combined Genius Bar and Apple Pickup station with counters set at varied heights for improved accessibility, a seating area for customers to demo the Apple Vision Pro, a large screen on the rear wall, and more.

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Apple's original store at Trafford Centre opened in 2005. Its replacement opened March 1.

As spotted by designer Filip Chudzinski, Apple recently announced that it will be opening another all-new store at Crocker Park, an outdoor shopping center in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Apple has yet to share an exact grand opening date.

"Get ready," the Crocker Park store page says. "Great things are in store. A brand-new Apple Store is coming soon."

You can expect Apple's new Crocker Park store to be larger and more modern than its original store at the shopping center, which first opened in 2008.

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Rumours are UK stores will soon have state-of-the-art security at the front to prevent theft, with round-the-clock cameras overseeing the front and sides of the store, with highly trained teams complete with dogs and nets, all covering 3 directions.

But at the back, a broken old wooden door that is barely on its hinges, just for the government, just in case they decide they need to gain entry to leave their stuff before going on a fishing trip, so that’s nice. It’ll have a sign on it saying ‘government only, so keep out’, so it’s not any kind of risk.
 
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trparky said:
As a person who lives in Cleveland, I have to agree. There's really nothing going for Cleveland right now.

At least we're not Detroit. We're not Detroit!
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Also, live in Cleveland area and you sound like you are not hanging out in the correct areas of Cleveland. There is literally something for everyone somewhere in the Cleveland/northeastern Ohio area. On a different note is the Crocker Park store closed or are they moving to a different part of Crocker Park?
 
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Somehow Cincinnati only has 1 Apple Store. Bunch of horses behind. We got Kentucky hicks driving multiple hours to see an iPhone.
 
My closest store! I walked through the Trafford centre wondering what they were talking about as its been there for ever. Then realised it was just a refit, need to go have a look. It still had all the aluminium paneling from the original Genius bar style.
 
I will admit, there must be something very different about how my brain works compared to many other people.

I want a product to be great that I buy, I also want to get good value for my money.
I see a store, like a fancy Apple store in a Fancy location and the only thought in my mind is a negative one.
I look at it, and think of how much extra the products cost to be able to pay for all of this.

If my Apple product, came in a plain brown box, and sold from a steel warehouse with pallets full of the products I'd be way more happier.

Then again i feel the same way about "Designer cloths and Jewellery stores" trying to fool the public who know no better.
Cut 18" of a machine made 100ft spool of gold chain, lay it in a window on some blue cloth, with some glass crystals and pretty lighting to make customers feel special with some cheap window dressing.

I really do struggle to understand how the minds of people work who fall for all of this.
Millions do I know.....
 
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Danindub said:
And Ireland, Apple's EU headquarters, is still waiting for one.
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I'm imagining that to be a small unoccupied office space above a chip shop, with a huge pile of mail on the door mat, none of which will be tax demands. On the glass panel in the door will be one of those free Apple product stickers, and someone will have written EU HQ. In the far corner there's a desk with an old PC, an empty in tray and a broken mug.
 
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Piggie said:
I see a store, like a fancy Apple store in a Fancy location and the only thought in my mind is a negative one.
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I get it.

But... I encourage you to look at archicture, and interior design, differently.

The built environment is humanity's major physical invention.

How we live our lives tells us about ourselves.

Apple Stores are full service. They are one of the few retail places left, for the common person, that don't feel like a thrift store. (Nothing against thrift stores - I've shopped at them before, but there is no doubt that shopping at the local Salvation Army store is done out of desperation.)
 
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picpicmac said:
I encourage you to look at archicture, and interior design, differently.

The built environment is humanity's major physical invention.

How we live our lives tells us about ourselves.
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That sounds just like an Apple Event script. The last line, in particular... I can hear Timmy's voice reading it!
 
picpicmac said:
(Nothing against thrift stores - I've shopped at them before, but there is no doubt that shopping at the local Salvation Army store is done out of desperation.)
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I dunno. You can find a lot of unique, antique, quality things at charity shops if you have the time to shop around and know what you're looking for. I'd argue that most people shop there out of desire to support the charity, to reuse and recycle, and to find more interesting and higher quality items than you typically get in generic homeware/clothing shops. Not because they can't afford to shop elsewhere. It's not as if you can't find new things for much the same prices on Amazon or Temu or TK Maxx, it's just that they'll be generic and Chinese and often a bit crap in quality.
 
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Reason077 said:
Well now there’s an Apple store, so it can’t be that bad!
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The Crocker Park store in Cleveland has been there for years, so I don't know what this article is talking about. Is the store moving to another part of Crocker Park? Why? More space? If so, yeah... I can see it. That store is kind of small. I've been to it a couple of times.

The last time I was there I had to have a battery replaced under Apple Care in my mother's iPhone. I hit up The Yard House and had some nice beers while I was waiting.
 
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spazzcat said:
Also, live in Cleveland area and you sound like you are not hanging out in the correct areas of Cleveland. There is literally something for everyone somewhere in the Cleveland/northeastern Ohio area. On a different note is the Crocker Park store closed or are they moving to a different part of Crocker Park?
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Oh, alright... There's a few good things going on in the area. We have a great food scene. Sports? Not so much, unless you're into the Cavs. The less we speak about The Browns, the better; they aren't called The Factory of Sadness for nothing.
 
CausticSoda said:
That sounds just like an Apple Event script. The last line, in particular... I can hear Timmy's voice reading it!
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It is not.

My statement is how people who think about society and architecture view the world.

If you've never encountered that before, then I encourage you to look around your lived area, your neighborhood, your region.

Also, take a gander at the UK show Grand Designs and then look at the typical US suburban sprawl with endless rows of identical housing, poorly built and with faux everything.

That Americans (and possibly elsewhere) have forgotten what a quality retail outlet looks like, and why it exists, is a sad comment on the 21st century.

All across the US there are empty and decaying strip malls, big box stores, etc. that have now become just real estate baggage.

I'm glad there are a few companies out there who can still do retail, and do it properly.
 
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