I’ve known about the future store at Crabtree Valley Mall (NC) for about a year, and now it’s finally on-track. Mall management says the Apple store will open during the first half of 2006.

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A new Apple Centre has opened in Lisbon (Portugal), the very first in the country. The store opened Oct. 27th and looks very much like others in Europe.

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Ouch! A visitor to the Regent Street (London) store found a store crowded with non-buyers checking their e-mail, “cluttered” display tables and an uninformed staff.

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More photos of the future Fukuoka (Japan) store show the classic lines of stainless steel, a covered-up back-lit logo on the window-less second floor, and the floor-to-ceiling windows on the third floor. It also shows the store is right next to Starbucks. Check these photos–you can just barely make out the Apple logo before the [...]

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The grand opening of the Burlington (Mass.) retail store will be on November 5th.

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Boing, boing! Apple has revealed the location of two more retail store locations, at The Pier at Ceasars in Atlantic City (NJ) and Freehold Raceway Mall (NJ). The former is a completed reconstructed pier adjacent to the existing Caesars Atlantic City hotel and casino, offering upscale shopping, restaurants and attractions to the city’s 34 million [...]

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Michael reports about 28 persons in line a 8 a.m. for the Thousand Oaks (S. Calif.) store grand opening, with photos to follow.

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OK, here’s the absolutely last item about “Missed Connections” on Craigslist, and only because it seems to be have been cleverly successful. Guy sees guy in North Michigan Avenue store, uses computer to create an “MC” entry on Craigslist, then goes up to guy and says, “Someone just posted a message about you on Craigslist [...]

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The AppleInsider Web site has a report and photos of the on-going construction of the future Mid-Town (NYC) store, including the glass-cube, plaza-level entrance to the subterranean store.

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Apple has dipped down the list of metro areas, and has selected Reno (Nev.) for a future retail store, at the under-construction Sierra Summit lifestyle center being developed by Bayer Properties Inc. The town is in the high-Sierra Mountains with a population of 180,000, but the developer claims 570,000 residents within the shopping region, and [...]

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Thanks to Mitch for the photo of the newly remodeled St. Louis Galleria (Mo.) mini-store, showing the new stone flooring and center display island.

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You may recall the protest Web site smashmyipod.com, which has now posted video of its Yorkdale (Canada) store event. It includes Ben Simpson’s purchase of the iPod (cash!), and a pretty hilarious conversation with a Mac Specialist at the register about the warranty. Simpson nervously counts out his cash, takes his change and the iPod. [...]

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An Apple Centre will open in Lisbon (Portugal), according to a forum posting.

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I’ve added three more flickr photos to my postcard collection.

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On the other side of the world, the Shibuya (Japan) store has been host to musical guests, including an unidentified one in this flickr photo. You can also see the smaller-scale spiral glass staircase at the back of the store.

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Mathieu lives in Toulousee (France), but was walking the Champs Elyseés in Paris and noticed an empty building. “that immediately reminded me of the Apple store in Long, do you think? In French on his blog, Mathieu wonders if Steve Jobs has signed the lease the “superb” space and will begin work the first [...]

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Thanks to Nathan for photos of the Penn Square (Okla.) retail store grand opening today. The mall posted a notice on its exterior doors for the Apple crowd–where to line up, and that doors would open at 6 a.m. just for them, and the store staff autographed the grand opening poster (right). The store appears [...]

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Vending machine company Zoom Systems tells PC Magazine they’ll have over 100 of its product-dispensing devices in operation by the end of this year, stocked with iPods, among other products. By next year, they’ll have 600 machines in operation. You’ll recall the sales robots have been previously spotted at Atlanta’s airport selling iPods and iPod [...]

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Well, it may be getting strange in the “Missed Opportunities” section of Craigslist up in Portland, where this entry was posted: “Has anybody else noticed how HOT some of the guys working at the new Apple Store downtown are!?! Seriously, if any of you working there are reading this, I freakin’ love you SO MUCH! [...]

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I visited Berlin (Germany) at the end of the summer to scout out possible retail spaces along the upscale Kurfurstendam Strasse, and have now posted my report and photos on the trip.

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