Minneapolis can be brutal in the winter, with temperatures well below zero. In the summer, mosquitoes cruise like Huey Cobras on patrol. But I’m compelled to visit this land of contrasts to find out what makes it so attractive to Apple–they already have two retail stores on the southwest side of Minneapolis. I head for [...]
March 31st, 2004
Thousands of miles away on Regent Street in London, that huge, block-sized mixed retail, office and residential development is coming into sharper focus. An Apple retail store will occupy two floors in the middle of the block, leaving space on either side for smaller, as-yet unknown tenants. It’s possible that Apple will have to forego [...]
March 30th, 2004
Apple has posted job openings for the future (but unannounced) Danbury (Conn.) retail store on the "Jobs" Web page.
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March 30th, 2004
Listed on the "Jobs" page drop-down menu are the new locations of Pittsburgh (Shadyside) and Kansas City (Country Club Plaza, Mo.), the future retail stores I announced here first. However, no open positions are yet posted for these two new stores. Perhaps it’s a trend — both stores will be part of historic urban shopping [...]
March 29th, 2004
Where do old Apple retail store graphics go when they’re taken down? Well, they’re shipped back to Apple, who previously turned them into small pieces, but will now allow independent resellers purchase them at cost for use in their stores. The large window graphics reportedly cost $45 and the smaller wall sections fetch $20. The [...]
March 24th, 2004
You’ll recall that last Nov. 6th I reported on a financial analysts’ meeting, where Sr. v-p Retail Ron Johnson talked about several future in-store service programs. Now the Apple Insider Web site says those programs will begin April 1st, and provides complete details on the realigned, free Standard level of service, and the new $99 [...]
Secret Meeting Tape Revealed
March 24th, 2004
It’s funny how television affects the nation’s behavior–Donald Trump gets a TV show and suddenly everyone is waving their hand and saying, “You’re fired.” Now I’ve come across a piece of audio tape that claims to be from some type of Apple retail store meeting, and it sounds exactly like….Howard Dean.
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March 24th, 2004
No…I have no idea what happened to the Nike shoe promotion at the retail stores. I do know that some employees are wearing the shoes, and that the blurb about the promotion on Apple’s retail Web page has disappeared. It sounded like a strange pair-up in the first place.
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March 22nd, 2004
More details are emerging about Apple’s plan to open the mini-stores that I revealed back in early February. The stores will be installed on university campuses over the next 18 months, most likely as special areas of existing student union or bookstore retail operations. The stores will sport some of Apple’s typical graphics and design [...]
March 22nd, 2004
How do you know when it’s closing time at an Apple store? Well, first the staff dims the lights to signal "outta here," and then finally the screens of the demo computers flash white letters on a black screen– "Thanks for shopping the xxxxxx Apple store. We’ll be reopening again at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Thanks [...]
March 22nd, 2004
Those two 10%-off cards on eBay sold for $65.97 and $56, and the buyers will shortly help to pump more money into Apple’s revenues!
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March 22nd, 2004
A long article in today’s The Wall Street Journal is titled, "Show, Don’t Tell," and explains how H-P and Microsoft believe that lots of consumers don’t understand what computers are capable of doing, and so the companies are now installing 15′x15′ "lesson centers" in certain retail stores to promote certain product combinations: computers and digital [...]
March 19th, 2004
The ThinkSecret Web site has a long special report on a lawsuit filed by some of Apple’s resellers, in which the resellers question Apple’s wholesale pricing of products for its own stores vs. their authorized resellers. The plaintiffs claim Apple’s own retail stores receive bigger discounts on merchandise, and that Apple’s accounting practices don’t accurately [...]
March 18th, 2004
I love barbeque and I love baseball, which took me 1,791 miles east to Kansas City (Kan.), where both are king. I started by visiting Gates & Sons Bar-B-Q (1026 State Ave.), where the noise level is high and the ribs are meaty. After sitting down with my rib slab, beans and potato salad, I [...]
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