Apple apparently intends to surround the immense Château de Versailles (France) tourist attraction with retail stores, with the addition of a store inside the Parly 2 shopping mall west of Paris. According to the MacGeneration Web site, the future store will join the existing Velizy 2 store that is just 10 miles away, and on the other side of Versailles. Both malls attract locals from a wide area, and also from many of Versailles’ 3.5 million annual visitors. Just last week a future store was discovered at the Carré Sénart shopping mall south of Paris. The exact location of the Parly 2 store within the mall is unknown. The store could open by late 2011.
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This one was previously rumoured back in Dec 2009(?). Seemed like it had been superseded by Velizy 2, but maybe not. Apple seem to be a bit obsessed with the Paris area: 3 of their 5 french stores are already in or near Paris; the Lyon, Strasbourg and Bordeaux stores are all now overdue and there are a bunch of big cities with apparently nothing going on: eg. Marseille (maybe something in 2013-14), Lille, Toulouse, Nantes, etc. So much for the rapid roll-out…
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