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Photos of Apple's New Passeig de Gràcia Retail Store in Barcelona
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So John browett's new plan is to turn Apple into a " high end retailer". He is already pulling excess stock form stores and by the looks of the new paris store and from rumors which look to be true. He has requested the stores have Sound docks and headphones on stand-alone demo stands, So i guess apple are revisiting what Ron johnson did in the first 4 years of apple retail.
Good luck Apple at revisiting the past.
Good luck Apple at revisiting the past.
It may be just me, but I have always wondered why some new Apple stores receive so much time on the MacRumors front page. I enjoy knowing a new store is coming, but multiple posts about architectural designs, banners going up at the new store, and so forth seem to be a bit of overkill.
Scotland has a population more or less on par with Ireland, of which 2 of Apple's 3 stores are found in central Glasgow area which is also on equal terms with Dublin so with that in mind i see no reason why Apple wouldn't even consider one retail store placement in this region.
This topic has already been discussed and reasoned around i think it's inevitable but to each their own i guess.
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Too bad Spaniards are too poor to buy anything right now - is this for tourists or what?
I'm not trying to say Ireland doesn't need an Apple Store. Apple themselves must have a reason, and I was speculating whether the catchment wasn't dense enough for them to feel it worth opening one at this time. The Scottish stores can be supplied as part of the UK operation easily enough (at least until 2014
), so maybe they gain from that.The Scottish stores can be supplied as part of the UK operation easily enough (at least until 2014
Yes that goes without saying otherwise Belfast would of likely to also have been left by the wayside.
Yes, it is part of our full service economy recovery plan: you get to shop for wonderful Apple products while enjoying a much less depressing weather, and we give your unsatisfied girlfriend a good once over (or two) while she waits.
It's funny how Apple stores become tourist attractions in their own right because they are so elegantly designed.
Though, I still think New York's stores are the pinnacle of Apple design.
Though, I still think New York's stores are the pinnacle of Apple design.
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I can't wait to check it out on Saturday. Their other shop here in Barcelona is about an hour metro ride from my house and this one is just a 15 minute walk. Plus, the location is right in the middle of the high-end shopping, so I think it will do better for them.
Yes, whenever I go into an Apple Store I have this overwhelming urge to take my shoes off.
I strongly disagree, Barcelona is not what I would call a clean city.
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Yap, all the Spaniards are now struggling for death and starvating
And in the following photo after this quote, you can see 6 men sitting there, watching 1 women filling the shelves.
Hard at work indeed.
They did...Great, now it's time Apple opened a store in Ireland already!!
...in Belfast
As soon as I'm done replying your post I'll go outside to resume my daily begging for food
They're not Spaniards, they're Catalans, and they've been driving the Spanish economy forward for as long as there's been a Spain. There's plenty of money in Barcelona even now.
I'm Catalan but my pun wasn't about Catalonia versus Spain, but about the sensationalist and bombastic coverage of this crisis by the media. By reading the news one would think that people are starving in Southern Europe when really it isn't much different here than in all other Western countries. There's a crisis, there's unemployment and there're cuts to the welfare system. And yes, it's though but it's not the endo of the world. At least not yet
The whole shifting of focus from one country to another (Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Portugal, Spain, Italy...) is just to distract people from the real issues, how we're being robbed of our money and fundamental rights just to fill the pockets of speculators, bankers and professional politicians. Unregulated capitalism at its best.
And sorry about the off-topic, but it wasn't me who started it
Although I'm English I spend a large part of every year in Catalunya and will be permanently relocating there in the next year or so. You're right, it's no worse there than it is in most of Europe.I'm Catalan but my pun wasn't about Catalonia versus Spain, but about the sensationalist and bombastic coverage of this crisis by the media. By reading the news one would think that people are starving in Southern Europe when really it isn't much different here than in all other Western countries. There's a crisis, there's unemployment and there're cuts to the welfare system. And yes, it's though but it's not the endo of the world. At least not yet
Industry is still turning, money is still moving, and a 22% unemployment rate means that 78% of the workforce are still in work. It's certainly a lot better than it was back in the early 80s when I first started visiting the area.
Anyway.....new Apple Store. W00t and all that!!