One of the few stores to open in the United States this year will be in California’s central valley, somewhere in the city of Bakersfield. The store will fill in coverage for a 180-mile corridor of agricultural towns that are now without any Apple stores. A job listing posted earlier this week has sparked speculation among Apple fans in the city, but as is now traditional, the listing doesn’t specify an exact location for the future store. One possibility is the Valley Plaza mall south of city center that has most of Apple’s usual neighboring retailers. Apple executives have said that about 40 new stores will open during fiscal 2012, with only about 10 of those within the United States. Based on hiring schedules, the store could open this October.
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Nice to see my hometown growing up a little bit more (I now live very close to Cupertino). I think the nearest Apple Stores to Bakersfield (pop. near 350,000) are generally 1 1/2 – 2 hours away (San Luis Obispo, Fresno, & Santa Clarita).
Definitely going to be a relief to all of the people from the area who travel down into Pasadena and Rancho Cucamonga. There was one particular O2O customer who left at 4 each saturday morning to get to our store by 6:30 to set up their iMac for their lesson at 7.
Talk about dedication! Probably our best promoter before we picked up all this steam in the last 4 or 5 years.
Today’s Bakersfield Californian online newspaper confirmed the store will actually open later this month.
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