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Retail Roundup: Apple to Release 'Concierge' iPhone Application? Nashua, NH Store Opening?

MacRumors said:
On a separate note, MacRumors has also heard that Apple will be opening a new retail store this weekend in the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, New Hampshire, the company's second location in the state.
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Pheasant Lane Mall certainly is a misfit with any "exclusive" association for Apple stores.

The mall is anchored by Sears, JCPenney, Macys and Target. .... Nice mall, but "upscale" - not. It lives by being a sales tax-free 40min out of Boston. (I was working on Spit Brook Road when it opened in 1986.)

Without tax cheaters from Mass PLM would be a minor mini-mall.

At least, though, the mall has a Verizon store so that you can get a phone with 3G that works.
 
when i told a genius one time that they should implement an app like this, he winked and said "it's coming soon" - that was last year :hmm:

also, he stated that they already have an internal app for employees.. anyone care to verify that?
 
(@*K - I do NOT need an Apple store right down the road.

Just when I started saving back up. :mad:
 
Chupa Chupa said:
Seems like Apple is contributing to iPhone app clutter.
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It seems that Apple needs a way to better organize apps. Perhaps a home page which has categories which can be preset or user set to organize and tag apps. I have probably eight pages already on my iPod Touch- it takes entirely too long to organize my apps already.
 
AidenShaw said:
Pheasant Lane Mall [...] lives by being a sales tax-free 40min out of Boston.
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40 min?! :eek: Maybe at 2 am, when all the cops are asleep by the side of the highway. During normal store hours, you'll be lucky do get there in under 52 minutes, even if you live in the North End. OK, I'm splitting traffic cones, but the record must be kept straight :)
 
akadmon said:
40 min?! :eek: Maybe at 2 am, when all the cops are asleep by the side of the highway. During normal store hours, you'll by lucky do get there in under 52 minutes, even if you live in the North End. OK, I'm splitting traffic cones, but the record must be kept straight :)
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OK, then how about "under an hour". ;)

Way back when, I'd go from Nashua to my husband's place in Cambridgeport - 93 to 128 to 2 to Fresh Pond to Mem Drive to River to Putnam....

45 minutes was best case - but 60 minutes was easy unless there was a big problem on 93 or 138 or 2.

But "around an hour" is pretty good for around downtown Boston - as long as you allow for however long it takes to get to one of the highways (128/95/90/93/2)....
 
Big-TDI-Guy said:
Nashua to Logan 25 minutes.

Happened once, won't ever do that again. ;)
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It seems that Apple needs a way to better organize apps. Perhaps a home page which has categories which can be preset or user set to organize and tag apps. I have probably eight pages already on my iPod Touch- it takes entirely too long to organize my apps already.
 
pcjr said:
Cross state purchase would have to be enormous to save on taxes to offset the cost of gas. The Apple Store in Boston is walking distance from where I live. :)
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Living in the Worcester area the time to get to an apple store turns into a 3 to 4 hour journey.

If I ever needed an apple store the Natick one is closest but the traffic is absolutely horrible.
But then again Route 3 isn't any better certain times of the day.
Driving into Boston with its tolls adds about $10 to the trip, parking and the fun of driving in Boston.
 
Cool about the nashua store, though I live on Newbury so it takes 289 steps for me to get to the Boston store. Though, some really shady people work at the Boston store, the kind that browse craigslist casual encounters m4m incessently. Anyway, this seems to make around 5 apple stores within an hour or so, haha.

Fun fact about the Phez Lane mall. If you go outside of the Sears, part of the sidewalk is cut off at a diagonal, about 3 feet total. That's the exact location of the NH/MA border!
 
neccoloup said:
If you go outside of the Sears, part of the sidewalk is cut off at a diagonal, about 3 feet total. That's the exact location of the NH/MA border!
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Actually, I don't think that it's the sidewalk at Sears, but the southern corner of JC Penney that was "truncated" to avoid any possibility of encroaching on Taxachusetts.

Sears is the medium grey building on the right - JC Penney is the dark gray building on the lower left. Note the bottom corner is cut off to line up with the Sears building.

The story that we heard at the time (my house was a few blocks off East Dunstable) was that after construction was underway a second survey team came to the conclusion that the Mass/NH border was a bit north of what the original survey said. Since there was a fear that Taxachusetts could require sales tax from the entire store if any part of it was in Mass, the southern corner was cut off.

The fact that the parking lots and sidewalks are in Taxachusetts isn't important - it's whether the store crosses the border.

mall map (click "view center map" in right nav pane - note North is left, not up)
 

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bruinsrme said:
WTF.....i call BS route 3 > 93 no way.....:eek:
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Call all the BS you want, 4am - younger (much dumber) me, in a GTI. Average speed for the entire trip was 3 digits deep.

I say no moar. :cool:

Edit: I reiterate, I was EXTREMELY stupid back then.

Edit again: About the border bit - I used to work at the (not allowed to say - but it's the really tall one) building near the mall - and one of the rooms in the building is chained off and sealed shut. That room resides in MA as well. Rumor was that XXXXXX (previous owner of the building) intentionally located a lab in MA, should they have to circumvent any laws pertaining to their products. I'm not BSing about that, either.
 
Big-TDI-Guy said:
Call all the BS you want, 4am - younger (much dumber) me, in a GTI. Average speed for the entire trip was 3 digits deep.

I say no moar. :cool:

Edit: I reiterate, I was EXTREMELY stupid back then.
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Yes, you'd need an average over 100 MPH... (It's 37 miles from the southernmost NH exit to the tunnel exit.)
 
Big-TDI-Guy said:
Call all the BS you want, 4am - younger (much dumber) me, in a GTI. Average speed for the entire trip was 3 digits deep.

I say no moar. :cool:

Edit: I reiterate, I was EXTREMELY stupid back then.

Edit again: About the border bit - I used to work at the (not allowed to say - but it's the really tall one) building near the mall - and one of the rooms in the building is chained off and sealed shut. That room resides in MA as well. Rumor was that XXXXXX (previous owner of the building) intentionally located a lab in MA, should they have to circumvent any laws pertaining to their products. I'm not BSing about that, either.
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No way! I've been an intern there the past few years. Wonderful lobby that place has. Free turkey at Christmas anyone?
 
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