Two photographs taken by Apple enthusiasts in different countries provide a unique view of Apple’s retail stores. The first photo was taken recently at the future Liverpool One (UK) retail store space, showing a half-finished interior and workers using heavy equipment. The photo provides some intelligence on when the store might open–possibly mid-July. The second [...]

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Four teenage visitors to the Palo Alto (N. Calif.) retail store were detained by employees, interrogated by the police, photographed, and then told by the manager that their mug shots would be sent to other Apple stores. The actions came after one of the four admittedly downloaded a third-party game onto a store display iPhone. [...]

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The Liverpool One (UK) shopping complex held its grand opening today, but without the Apple retail store that’s located in the midst of the complex on Paradise Street. According to sources, the store will open in early July, possibly the 5th. Check this mall plan for the exact location, and view photos after the break.

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A huge piece of the Green Monster covering from the Boylston Street (Boston) store has appeared for auction on eBay, with the proceeds going to a local charity. The anonymous seller notes the exclusive nature of the 3-foot by 8-foot section of the green material that covered the glass façade before the store opened on [...]

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I’ve tweaked the comments section of the Web site to accommodate globally recognized avatars, or gravatars. You can quickly and easily create an account here using just your e-mail address, post a photo or graphic, and now have that image appear alongside your comments on this site (use the same e-mail address in your comment that you [...]

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When the huge, 200-acre Park Place (Barrie, Ont.) development opens its first phase of retail space in 2010, it may include an Apple retail store. The lifestyle-style project about 60 miles north of Toronto will include every type of attraction: retail, office, industrial, residential, hotel and entertainment. The city is along Kempenfeldt Bay, and is generally an [...]

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The 24-hour Fifth Avenue (NYC) retail store will close its door on Thursday afternoon, and then re-open early Friday morning, without explanation of why. The store’s on-line calendar shows none of the typical events after 1 p.m. on Thursday, or any events on Friday morning. Previously, the store has been closed only for product introductions [...]

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The expensive, custom-made “Green Monster” covering over the Boylston Street (Boston) retail store glass façade is long gone, but now souvenir pieces of the material are beginning to surface. One person has supplied a photo of an irregularly-shaped piece of the green stuff, about nine inches square. The material is described as being the thickness [...]

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In a record-setting transaction, real estate tycoon Harry Macklowe has signed a deal to sell the General Motors Building, home of the Fifth Avenue (NYC) Apple store. The transaction isn’t expected to affect any aspect of the Apple store’s operation, as the company’s tenancy is governed by a detailed contract. The sale price of the [...]

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The Italy-based setteB.IT Web site has thoroughly investigated the future Apple stores in Geneva and Zurich (Switzerland), and has posted an extensive photo gallery of its tour of both cities. The two-level Geneva store is dead-center in an old-looking building served by the city’s tram system. The store is flanked by Auer Chocolats Cafeteria and a [...]

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The management of the Bridge Street shopping mall in Huntsville (Ala.) are telling local media that the Apple store will open there this Saturday at 10 a.m. The store will be the second in the state, and helps fill in a persistent black-out zone that has covered the southern United States since the first Apples [...]

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The complexity of an Apple store is visible to visitors, but beneath the structure of stainless steel, glass and stone is another level of complexity that is just as important. According to city permit records, the electrical, plumbing and other systems inside the store are extensive–and expensive.

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A giant, Bondi-blue banner has been placed over the three-story glass façade of the future George Street (Sydney, Australia) retail store, signaling that the store could open within weeks. The banner is of the same custom-made, 3M plastic material that covered the Boylston Street (Boston) glass storefront, and depicts a “wave” design made of iPods. [...]

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The grand opening of the Pacific Centre (Vancouver) retail store today revealed that it does not meet the expectations of those hoping for Canada’s first street-level, multi-story retail outlet with a glass staircase. Instead, the public retail floor is just 25 feet wide and 30 feet deep, or just 750 square-feet, tucked inside a downtown [...]

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Apple will open a retail store at a relatively small shopping mall adjacent to the United State Air Force Academy, at The Promenade Shops at Briargate in Colorado Spring (Colo.). The mall is just 285,000 square-feet, about one-fifth the size of the mall where Apple usually locates. But the mall attracts customers from a very [...]

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The grand opening of the new Boylston Street (Boston) retail store brought Apple products to the heart of the city, and it also generated major press coverage, fanned by company statements about the origin of the store, its size and the customer service features. But a closer look at some of the statements about the [...]

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An Apple store employee claims in a blog posting that he was fired from the Glendale (S. Calif.) retail store for extracting photos that customers took with display iPhones, and then posting them on the photo site flickr. The 128 photos show various parts of the Glendale store, hands of customers, group and single shots of [...]

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Photos of the Brandon (Fla.) retail that opens Saturday at 10 a.m. reveal that it resembles an interior design that originated back in October, 2004, with the opening of six mini-stores. The space is about 22-feet wide and the entire interior is stainless steel, with wood counters and center-located wood display tables. The store façade [...]

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Motion picture studio watchers in southern California report that teams from Apple’s contractor are now arriving to quickly build a partial retail store set inside a sound stage for filming an unknown movie. Apple’s stores have become an icon representing technology, cutting-edge architecture and the social scene, and could be used in a film in [...]

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Apple’s retail stores hold a 66 percent market share for computers purchased in stores and priced over $1,000, according to an industry analyst, sparking discussion among stock traders and financial experts about what the figure really means. According to the NPD Group Inc., during the first quarter of 2008 Apple held a 13.8 percent share [...]

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