Category: Stores
In 2011, Apple opened a temporary Apple Store at the South By Southwest Interacive Festival, a gathering of social media, music and other media types. The iPad 2 was released on March 2nd just as the festival was beginning and Apple made out handily. However, Apple is confirming that there will be no such temporary store at this years SXSW event. This year’s South By Southwest Interactive Festival is due to start on March 9th and go until March 18th. …
CouponBuzz has announced the immediate availability of Apple Inc. specific coupons on their website. The Coupons which are available on the CouponBuzz website are specifically attuned to the special sales which the Apple Store offers. According to CouponBuzz’s Senior Director, Justin Bowen, “The Apple Store is a wonderland of information and user-friendly interfaces that will walk the customer through every aspect of their new purchase. Shopping online at the Apple Store is a truly enjoyably experience, one that is even…
Apple has hired John Browett, former CEO of Dixons Retail to be the new Senior VP in charge of Apple Stores world wide. Press Release From Apple: CUPERTINO, California—January 30, 2012—Apple® today announced that John Browett will join the company as senior vice president of Retail, reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Browett comes to Apple from European technology retailer Dixons Retail, where he has been CEO since 2007. Beginning in April, he will be responsible for Apple’s retail strategy…
A report in CNN Money is claiming that the Apple stores are worth nearly as much as the White House is. According to the report, a square foot of an Apple store moves an average of $4,709 per square foot while the the White House is worth $4,752 per square foot. Just my opinion but since Apple is doing it every year, wouldn’t that make the Apple store more valuable?
Soon, people may have to begin thinking of Apple and Harrods in the same sentence. A report in 9 to 5 Mac is reporting that there will soon be an in store Apple store at Haarrods. Harrods was sold in 2010 to the Qatar Investment Authority by then owner Mohamed Al-Fayed. in foot traffic, the Harrods store could have more traffic than any other store other than the grand central station store which was recently opened by Apple, Inc….
According to MacPrime.ch, there are now plans to open an Apple Store in Basel, Switzerland sometime around the middle of 2013. As of yet, the plans are unconfirmed by Apple, Inc, however, a blueprint of the store shows that they will be opening a bi-level store with approximately 7500 square feet. Source: ifoAppleStore.com
A report in CIO states that Enterprise level corporations will likely put about $19 billion USD into purchases from Apple, Inc. this year according to the research firm Forrester Research. This is nearly 20% of the corporate market and will likely increase to a total of $28 Billion USD in 2013. Most of the purchases will be for iPads and Macs according to the report. The iPad has made major inroads into many enterprise level corporations including the airlines and…
Apple in their infinite wisdom, ave offered those folks who have not purchased their Christmas gifts yet, the possibility of purchasing them and still getting them to the person’s door by the 24th. Unfortunately this offer is for non-customized, non-engraved items and the offer ends tomorrow, 21 December 2011. For more information about the offer check out Apple’s holiday shipping web page at: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/holiday/shippingo
In just under a year, Apple has reached 100 million downloads of Apps for the Mac, this according to a press release put out by Apple today. The Mac store which was started to support Mac OS X, has been growing in leaps and bounds and currently has thousands of apps and has reached this milestone in a very short time. They also announced that the iPhone App Store, which is the example upon which the Mac App Store is…
At 10:00 am EST, Apple made a move that will send shock waves through the world of computing forever. They opened their biggest and brightest store yet, right smack dab in the middle of Grand Central Station. Long, the center piece of the New York existence, Grand Central serves more than a million people every day. Even though MacWorld Expo 2002 in Tokyo boasted some of the highest numbers ever for an Apple based event, coming in at 198,000 attendees…













