Apple’s international retail initiative continues this Saturday with the grand opening of the West Edmonton Mall (Alb.) store, the sixth store in the country. Mall management bills the location as “the world’s largest shopping and entertainment centre,” drawing visitors from a wide area to its 800 tenants, including a water park and IMAX theater. The [...]

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An epic video of the Sydney (Australia) store grand opening has now been posted, detailing the overnight waiting line, the growing daytime line, the passersby, the mounting excitement as 5 p.m. approached, singing store employees and, finally, the manager’s welcome. At over 13 minutes, it’s all there.

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The eBay auction site is listing at least nine commemorative T-shirts for sale from the Sydney (Australia) retail store grand opening, along with three completed auctions that fetched a high bid of $60. The Bondi blue-colored shirts feature an iPod “wave” design and were handed out to the first 2,500 persons to attended the grand [...]

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Apple retail executives have distributed a memo to all stores with anticipated customer questions on the upcoming debut of the company’s iPhone 3G, and suggested responses that store employees may provide. According to a post on AppleInsider, the information mirrors similar answers provided before the June, 2007 launch of the first iPhone model, but doesn’t [...]

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More details are emerging on the major upgrade planned for the Third Street Promenade store in Santa Monica (S. Calif.). The store is already classified as “large,” along a pedestrian-only street in the coastal city west of Los Angeles, drawing celebrities and ordinary folk alike. In April tipsters said the renovated store will have two [...]

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For several years California’s agriculturally-oriented Central Valley was served by just a single store in Sacramento, but that ended with the grand opening of the Fashion Fair (Fresno) store in June, 2007. Now Apple plans to open another store to serve the valley at the Vintage Faire Mall in Modesto (N. Calif.), about halfway between [...]

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Construction on the Liverpool One (UK) retail store is nearly finished, according to a collection of photos provided by Apple store enthusiasts in the city. The lower part of the store is covered with black wood barricade panels, but the upper part of the store reveals more–the storefront glass covered with black plastic, including the trademark [...]

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Police in Woodcliff Lake (NJ) responded to a 3 a.m. burglary alarm at the Tice’s Corner Apple store on June 17th, and arrested three men they found after a search. Officers arrived to find that the suspects had entered an empty furniture store next to Apple’s space, and had used pry bars, sledgehammers, saws and [...]

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Interior construction work on the future King Street retail store in Charleston (SC) is progressing, according to photos of the narrow store provided by Nick. The storefront is covered by the usual black construction barricade, but interior photos show that most of the sidewall display furniture has been installed, and plywood on the floor suggests [...]

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The second store for San Antonio (Tex.) will hold its grand opening this Saturday at 10 a.m. at the North Star Mall on the city’s north side. Texas, one of Apple’s favorites, will now have 14 stores. The store is just 34 feet wide, but is over 118 feet deep, allowing it to accommodate a [...]

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The front glass display windows arrived at the future Montreal (Canada) retail store on Ste. Catherine Street this week, and the process was recorded in rare photos by Rémy. The glass arrived in a large orange container, and were hoisted from wooden crates high over the street, and then behind the two-story black wooden barricade [...]

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(Sydney, Australia, Friday, 9:00 a.m.) — The grand opening of the Sydney (Australia) is over, but a large crowd, accommodating weather and an amazing store helped make it among Apple’s best events. Cloudy weather turned to sun at mid-day Thursday, then back to overcast before the opening–and then to rain just after the first 200 [...]

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Photos of the soon-to-open Sydney (Australia) store show a very shallow ground floor, perhaps just 15 feet deep, with room for just one row of display tables. However, the store is very wide, perhaps 75 feet. Presumably the upper two levels are full-size.

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Workers began removing the Bondi blue plastic covering over the glass façade of the Sydney (Australia) retail store late Sunday night, four days before the store’s grand opening. Using a combination of scissor lifts and boswain chairs, the workers slowly pulled the material off the glass to reveal a tall, three store concrete building structure, [...]

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Apple stores across the country installed new window displays Friday night that promote the annual Back-to-School promotion that, this year, pairs the purchase of a new Mac computer with a rebate for an iPod. The offer applies to faculty and staff, accepted or attending students of higher education institutions, employees of a public or private K–12 [...]

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