Apple has created a new job position for its retail stores that will fill a double role of service and training. The new Family Room Specialist will eventually be an entry-level position, although initially it’s being filled by applications from existing employees. These Specialists will provide One to One training sessions, and also provide Genius [...]

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An Apple store is never more than 30 minutes away within a 2,100 square-mile area surrounding Boston (Mass.), and now they’ll have an even shorter drive with the addition of a store at the Legacy Place mall in the small town of Dedham. The mall is currently under construction along Interstate 95 southwest of Boston, and [...]

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Apple is famous for constantly advancing into the future, requiring customers to make the leap from an ancient OS 9 to a Unix-based OS X operating system, accepting the loss of floppy disks, and making the leap from Motorola to Intel processors. Now the retail stores may be on the cusp of forcing another change, as [...]

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Apple has confirmed this year’s opening of two stores in France, a long-known store in Paris, and a surprise location in the southern provincial capital of Montpelier, along the Mediterranean coast. Both stores could be open by late summer and will be the first in the country. The Paris location was identified in mid-2007 as being [...]

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To kick off the first Apple store opening of 2009, Ian has started the waiting line for the Friendly Center (Greensboro, NC) grand opening, scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday. There was scaffolding still in place when he arrived just after 6 p.m. (EST), and the temperatures are in the mid-30s, and expected to drop to [...]

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The Apple retail store at the Friendly Center (Greensboro, NC) will hold its grand opening this Saturday at 10 a.m., the first new store of 2009. The company announced the event on the store’s Web page, almost one year after its scheduled opening. It’s the fourth retail store for the state.
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The attorneys for two disabled Oakland (Calif.) women have reached a settlement with Apple Inc. over their lawsuit alleging the San Francisco store is not accessible to persons in wheelchairs. Apple denied any liability for the women’s claims, but did agree to a three-page list of changes to the store. Both sides agreed to a [...]

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Microsoft Corp. has appointed a 27-year Wal-Mart veteran to lead the company’s second entré into retail stores. David Porter will become corporate vice president of Retail Stores, the company said in a press release, and will begin work on February 16th. Microsoft did not provide specific details of its retail initiative, but said it’s intended [...]

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Almost one year after its was scheduled to open, Apple’s retail store at Friendly Center (Greensboro, NC) will open on Saturday, February 21st, “pending no last minute construction or permit delays,” according to a mall marketing assistant. In an e-mail to an Apple enthusiast, the assistant said the store is located between Williams-Sonoma and Anthropologie [...]

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On the heels of an iPhone/iPod display table make-over, Apple plans to entirely reorganize and refocus space within the stores to emphasize customer education, and software over hardware. The change would be the third major interior design for the stores, which has included the debut wood floors and the September, 2006 conversion to a stainless interior. According [...]

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According to the owners of a development along the East River in Brooklyn (NY), Apple is still interested in occupying a ground-floor space for a retail store. In October 2007 tipsters said Apple’s real estate team was scouting The Edge, a condo-retail development along Kent Avenue between 5th and 7th Streets. On Monday during a [...]

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For the first time since the Apple retail stores opened in 2001, the company has debuted redesigned the acrylic product information stands adjacent to each product on display, and has also rearranged iPhone and iPod products to focus on applications available for them. The new info-blocks are wedge-shaped and smaller, but come with larger blocks [...]

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If the Georgetown district of Washington (DC) doesn’t want an Apple store with bad design, there are other areas of the city who will gladly accept the new business, according to local news accounts. The Old Georgetown Board rejected the company’s latest architectural proposal last week, 15 months after Apple purchased the building at 1229 [...]

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Apple now have a complete purchasing solution hidden beneath the display tables of their retail stores. When the company migrated from dedicated purchase counters to Specialists toting portable computers, it raised the issue of how to print receipts and bag the customer’s purchase. The first solution was to mount small thermal printers beneath the display [...]

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Building permits issued by Fairfax County (Virg.) confirm that Apple will open a retail store at the Reston Town Center, in the very upscale suburb northwest of Washington (DC), and about five miles from Dulles Airport. The permit to demolish the existing storefront and put up temporary barricades value the work at $10,000, and was issued [...]

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