In a brief press release, Dell announced that it will close all 140 of its kiosk retail locations in the United States, and instead adopt, “a retail strategy that enables Dell to connect with customers it has not necessarily reached in the past.” The company said it would focus on “where customers can purchase laptop and [...]

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If you need to know anything about the future Apple store at the West Edmonton Mall (Canada) mall, just ask mall president Don Ghermezian. He has told the Edmonton Journal newspaper that the store will open on July 1st, and that it will cover 6,000 square-feet. Even more revealing, Ghermezian told the reporter that the [...]

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Building an Apple store isn’t that difficult…just assemble the pieces that are listed at the Oobject.com Web site, which has painstakingly documented all of the design elements and their suppliers. Most of the supplier information has been documented previously, but this Web site lists it nicely with photos and links. Oh, it’s not easy to make an [...]

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Despite political instability, economic turmoil and low per capita income, El Salvador has a chain of Apple resellers, including one that looks just like a U.S. mini-store. The Mac Store store at the Galerias shopping mall in the capital city of San Salvador features a glass and stainless steel storefront, blond wood furniture, back-lit wall [...]

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Two women who sued Apple last year for violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) will head to mediation after the two sides were unable to reach any agreement on what changes were necessary at the San Francisco store to accommodate disabled persons. Jana Overbo and Nicole Brown-Booker filed the lawsuit last September, alleging [...]

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Work has begun to construct an Apple store at the Bridge Street Town Centre in Huntsville (Ala.). The city has issued a building permit to Shawmut Construction with alterations valued at $1.9 million, and some preliminary cement work has been performed at space #S23 in the southern section of the development along Interstate 565. Thanks [...]

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Apple’s retail stores set new sales and visitor records during the last three months of 2007, helping to contribute to the company’s record $9.6 billion in sales and $1.58 billion in profit. The company also announced that it would expend its relationship with Best Buy to sell computers at their electronics stores. The stores generated [...]

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Circuit City offered the easiest product return, according to a survey of five electronics retailers performed by the Wall Street Journal. Apple scored in the middle of the group, although the reporter who visited two Apple stores had some gripes about the lines and employees. The newspaper also tested Best Buy, Target and Wal-Mart, returning HDMI [...]

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Information about the future Paris (France) retail store is still very difficult to come by, but the MacGeneration.com Web site has pried loose a confirmation that it will be located underground at the Carousel de Louvre, adjacent to the world-famous museum. Phone calls to several of the existing retailers revealed that none was closing or moving, but [...]

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The 2008 retail store machine has cranked up into high gear, insuring Apple will open another 40 stores this year, most by the Thanksgiving start of the holiday shopping season. The stores are scattered around the country, filling in existing U.S. regions and adding one new store in Canada. The “Big 3″ states will receive [...]

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The construction barricade in front of the future Ste-Catherine W. (Montreal) retail store is finished, although it’s a dark gray color rather than the usual dramatic black that broadcasts “Apple store arriving soon.” Through a street-level opening you can see one of the infamous parking meters that Apple wanted to remove so it wouldn’t interfere [...]

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A long-standing lease dispute between Benetton and the owner of Bahnhofsstrasse 77 in Zurich (Switzerland) has been resolved, clearing the way for Apple to turn the space into the next store in continental Europe. Benetton was set to move out in 2005, but has avoided leaving through several legal challenges that resulted in an undisclosed [...]

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The Orlando (Fla.) region attracts over 50 million visitors each year, who combine with almost 2 million residents to create a retailer’s dream: $30 billion a year in spending. Now Apple intends to increase the odds of capturing some of that revenue with a third retail store 10 miles north at the Altamonte Mall. The [...]

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Texas already has 12 stores to supply Apple fans, but the company is planning to add another one to the north Dallas suburbs, this time at the Stonebriar Shopping Centre in the town of Frisco (pop. 6,000). The huge, 1.5 million square-foot center hosts 165 retailers and draws upscale shoppers from a huge region. The [...]

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Apple’s long-time plans to locate in Santa Barbara (Calif.) are apparently closer to becoming a reality. A story in the News-Press reports the company is negotiating for space at 928 State Street, which is being vacated by Pier 1. Apple has been looking at various properties in the picturesque, up-scale beach town since early 2005. [...]

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The last visible clue that 815 Bolyston Street (Boston) will be an Apple store has been deleted with a paint brush bucket of red paint. A small white Apple logo on a red sign in front of the store was painted over sometime during the past week, shortly after a photo of the sign [...]

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This year’s Macworld Conference and Exposition in San Francisco represents a return to the glory days of seven years ago, when attendance topped 64,000 and exhibitors crammed every inch of the Moscone Center exhibit hall. This week’s conference has all that, along with an increased buzz generated from optimistic long-time users and curious potential customers. [...]

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The greening of Apple Inc. continues, with the appearance of a recycling symbol on the iconic white drawstring shopping bags the company hands out to buyers at its retail stores. Early versions of the popular backtype-style bag carried absolutely no markings to indicate their origin, materials or recyclability. Now the bags bear a 1/4-inch symbol [...]

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The future Munich (Germany) Apple store is at least six months from a grand opening, according to construction experts who viewed site photos posted on the Germany-based MacGazette Web site. The store at 1 Rosenstrasse in city center is now only a partially-finished basement, carved into a row of three-story buildings. Photos show a tall construction [...]

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The interior design of Apple’s retail stores seems to be increasingly bleeding over into the reseller segment, as demonstrated by an Boutique iStore in the Montreal (Canada) suburb of Westmount, southwest of city center. The narrow store has wooden display tables, white walls, frosted-glass section partitions and other features taken from Apple’s architectural designs. Check these photos of the [...]

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