Apple’s retail stores in Japan are in the midst of the celebration of traditional Golden Week holiday, during which the country’s six stores hold special workshops that highlight the company’s products. The free one-hour sessions focus on using iChat to keep in touch with family and friends, kids media and family photos and albums. The [...]

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The job of scouting out future Apple retail store sites usually falls to fellow enthusiasts in distant cities and towns, since I can’t travel everywhere. I receive lots of e-mail each day providing tips, photos, maps and other information about up-coming sites. But there’s more work to be done! After the break, check my list [...]

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Apple enthusiasts in Pennsylvania had better be prepared to drive unless they happen to live in the eastern or western portion of the state. Residents in the middle of the state are at least a two-hour drive away from an official Apple store. But now Apple is moving slightly closer to the middle of the [...]

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The southern coast of Florida is peppered with Apple stores, apparently taking advantage of both the tourists and well-heeled residents who demand the best. Now Apple will fill out its coverage of Miami with another store inside the Dadeland Mall south of the city’s center. The huge 1.4 million square-foot mall is home to the usual [...]

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After several months of anonymous construction, the familiar white Apple logo has appeared on a black construction barricade at the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center in Honolulu. On-going coverage of the future store by Mark shows that workers performed some heavy-duty structural work on the two-story location, and now have begun to work on the exterior, [...]

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Sources within the real estate industry have confirmed that Apple has indeed signed a lease agreement for an unknown building on Princess Street in Edinburgh (Scotland) for a future retail store. The street has historically been the pinnacle of shopping in the city, but in recent years has turned into a hodge-podge of smaller retailers. [...]

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Apple tracks the revenue performance of its retail stores in real time at the Cupertino (Calif.) headquarters, and can immediately spot purchase trends, new product success, returns and other activities. Now, that technology is reportedly being extended to managers at the stores themselves with special software installed on an iPhone, allow them to track sales, [...]

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Apple’s retail stores continue to tally big revenues and profits, and to draw an increasing number of new-to-Mac buyers from both the consumer and business sectors. So now it’s time for a change that reflects the new mix of visitors and buyers. Starting Monday, Apple will rename three job titles to provide more clarity and better [...]

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After months of speculation, and hopes that an Apple store was landing in Monterrey (Mexico), photos show that it’s actually an authorized “Campus Store” at the university Tecnológico de Monterrey. The store has white-colored furniture to display a selection of computers and iPods. Check these photos of the new store. So far, Apple has not [...]

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Each March the city of Miami Beach (Fla.) holds a Winter Music Conference, with scores of groups playing a variety of sounds at venues across the city. Now a video has surfaced of last year’s performance of DJ Claude VonStroke inside the Lincoln Road retail store. Everything seems to be going well until two city [...]

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Just weeks from the grand opening, the future Boylston Street (Boston) retail store has turned green after construction scaffolding was removed this week. The plywood front of the site is apparently receiving an unmistakenable paint job to make it resemble the Green Monster at Fenway Park, the left-field wall at the home of the Boston Red [...]

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Apple’s retail stores continued to report strong revenues during the second quarter of fiscal 2008, and executives increased their forecast on the number of stores that will open this fiscal year. The company announced that store sales totaled $1.45 billion during the quarter, and profit was $334 million. Neither figure broke the records set in the previous quarter, [...]

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Located in the middle of one of the most affluent suburbs in America, the Bethesda Row (Md.) store was among the nine mini-stores opened in late 2005 as a way of bringing Apple retail to more locations. But the small store concept never caught on–no others were ever built. Now, as Apple’s market share, revenues [...]

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Investigators on the MacRumors Web forums have uncovered additional renderings of a possible future store in Toronto (Canada), but at a new location. One rendering shows the results of an extensive renovation of the existing building at 130 Bloor Street West, just up the street from the first reported location of a possible Apple store at 1 [...]

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The Regent Street (London) store instantly became the chain’s busiest when it opened in November, 2004, requiring an expansion to 28,000 square-feet in Spring, 2006 to accommodate the crowds of visitors. Now insiders say the store is once again being modified to handle the crush, but in more subtle ways. First, the downstairs display tables [...]

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The grand opening of the Fair Oaks (Virg.) retail store is scheduled for this Saturday, April 26th at 10 a.m. As is now customary, there will be 1,000 commemorative T-shirts given away, but no prize giveaways. It will be the sixth store in Virginia, and the 11th store in the metro District of Columbia area.

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The rumored location of a suburban Sydney (Australia) retail store has been pinpointed–the Chatswood Chase mall, a four-level development with 144 stores, about seven miles north of the big city. Flickr poster Adam spotted the black-painted construction barricade and has posted these photos. Previously, it was believed Apple would locate in the nearby and larger [...]

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A rare promotion of Apple’s retail stores arrived in the e-mail in-boxes of registered Mac users, touting the $99 per-year One to One training service as, “The fastest way to learn more about your Mac.” The e-mail also advertises the free group training sessions at the stores. Apple does no specific advertising on television or [...]

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Real estate and other insiders have confirmed previous reports that Apple will open two additional street-level stores in New York City. The company will open its first store in Brooklyn, in the Williamsburg section of the borough. The exact location of the store isn’t known, but the New York Post has speculated on Albee Square, [...]

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While Congress and the President generate news, everything over on Wisconsin Avenue in the Georgetown part of the District of Columbia has been quiet–but not for long. Tipsters pointed out possible Apples store locations in Georgetown last September. Now Apple has closed the $13.7 million deal to purchase the property at 1229 Wisconsin Avenue NW, and [...]

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