Shoppers seemed to be flocking to Apple’s retail stores on Black Friday, drawn specifically by discounts on laptops and iPods, and perhaps by price-matching. Visits to stores in the San Francisco area confirmed that all employees were on-deck to help provide service to the crowds of people, including about 20 who showed up at 3 [...]

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Apple has posted special Black Friday discount prices on its Australia and UK Web store site, offering price reductions ranging from just 4.1 percent to 7.7 percent on selected models of iPods, Apple TVs, Macbooks and iMacs. The discounts may be similar to those offered in Apple’s retail stores around the world as they open [...]

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Santa Claus and one of his helpful elves will appear in the windows of Apple stores this holiday season to promote the iPod product line. The three-dimensional, five-foot figures are intricately designed and feature neon-lit, glowing headphone cords that were fabricated by the Brooklyn-based company Lite Brite Neon. Store employees receive the figures in pieces, [...]

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The grand opening of the Rosenstrasse (Munich) retail store is imminent, now that the construction scaffolding has been removed and a colorful blue-and-white covering has been installed over the glass storefront that says, “Coming Soon.” The storefront has many of the elements of the Sydney (Australia) store: two levels, all glass front, suspended white Apple [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving! This has certainly been an amazing year for the United States, Apple Inc. and even for me. The country has endured an on-going war, elected a new president, and then encountered a dramatic economic downturn whose effects are still ahead of us. Apple has opened 46 stores so far this year, including some [...]

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The very first Apple store located in an airport is…a Boutique iStore. The store will debut soon at Pierre Elliot Trudeau Airport in Montreal (Canada), in the domestic departure area, followed later by a similar store in the international departure area. Photos snapped by Mike show the white shelving and counters are squeezed into about 225 [...]

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Apple has posted the extended holiday hours for its retail stores, with a few stores opening as early as 3 a.m. on Black Friday to accommodate shoppers. The hours are listed on the Web page of individual stores in a pop-up window, and cover from November 15th to January 14, 2009. All the stores will [...]

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The continent of Australia is nearly 2,500 miles wide, but Melbourne area residents will have to travel just eight miles to visit the second Apple store for the region. The company will open a store at Westfield Doncaster, about 11 miles east of Melbourne’s central business district, and just north of the existing Chadstone retail [...]

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Apple has thrown its retail dart at the huge continent of Australia, and it’s landed on…Robina? Participants on the MacTalk forum have confirmed that an Apple store will open at the Robina Town Centre on the eastern Gold Coast of the continent, about 50 miles south of Brisbane. The region was formerly swampland, but in [...]

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Apple has apparently fired the first shot in the holiday shopping battle, by announcing internally that retail store employees have the authority to match the prices of other authorized retailers. The stores have also cancelled all regular presentations on Black Friday, posted holiday buying tips have on Apple’s retail Web page, and created a special [...]

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The future Munich (Germany) retail store became more official as workers hoisted a large, three-dimensional Apple logo into the building on Saturday, in preparation for its installation  behind the all-glass façade that will overlook Rosenstrasse. The store is rumored to be opening by December 10th, although material over the front of the building blocks a [...]

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An Apple spokesperson has confirmed that the company will open a retail store on Wisconsin Avenue in the Georgetown district of Washington (DC). However, Apple public relations manager Amy Barney told the Washington Business Journal that she had no announcement to make regarding when the store will open. Apple purchased the property at 1229 N.W. Wisconsin [...]

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Several Web sites in Germany are reporting that music star Laith Al-Deen has scheduled a live performance at the future Munich Apple store on December 10th, perhaps signaling that as the grand opening date of the country’s first store. The date appeared on Al-Deen’s official Web site briefly, but has since been removed. The 36 year-old singer [...]

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Just one week before America’s biggest shopping day, the financial performance of Apple’s retail stores for Black Friday and the entire quarter is unclear–some analysts say sales will be down only slightly, yet will exceed last year’s level. Other analysts are more pessimistic, saying a huge spending downturn across America could leave the stores empty. [...]

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Apple will re-open the full-sized Eaton Centre (Toronto) retail store this Saturday at 9:30 a.m., offering even more room for visitors to the huge, four-level mall in the downtown district. The store closed briefly in August to prepare for what Apple called a “redesign,” although it’s not clear exactly how the store will be changed.
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