Once again, Apple has posted a Web page for iPhone buyers to check the availability of the newest model at their favorite Apple store. Previously, the availability numbers were updated at the end of each shopping day. But this newest iPhone 3GS page is linked directly to Apple’s internal point-of-sale system, allowing hourly updates for [...]

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Sources have confirmed rumors that the Roosevelt Field (NY) retail store will move from its second-level, end-of-hallway location to the space now occupied by Restoration Hardware on the ground level, near the center of the mall. The move will more than double the size of the store, give it much more visibility, and increase the [...]

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The future Halsted Street (Chicago) Apple store would have a tall, sweeping wall of stainless steel, backed by a slice of glass allowing a view to the inside, and bordered by water fountains, a parking lot and landscaping–but only if design contest winner Chen Shi Jun of Shaoxin (China) was in charge of the final [...]

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As any high school student can tell you, it’s a great Spring day when your teacher suggests that the class all go outside for the day’s instruction. The same principle applies to those who come to the Apple store–at least at the Stanford (N. Calif.) mini-store. A combination of the incredible small space inside the [...]

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After the Palo Alto (N. Calif.) retail store closes at 9 p.m., it goes to sleep just like a Macbook laptop, and now we have the video to prove it. It’s long been known that the twin, back-lit Apple logos on either side of the door are programmed to slowly pulsate, just like the “sleep” [...]

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Waiting lines for the new iPhone 3G-S model have formed around the world, including three persons under Apple-supplied umbreallas in a continuous rain at the Fifth Avenue (NYC) store. When I’ve arrived at the Palo Alto (N. Calif.) store at 6 p.m., there were just two persons in line–Taylor arrived first a 3 p.m. on [...]

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Every Apple store in the United States will open at 7 a.m. this Friday morning to begin selling the long-anticipated new version of the iPhone. Six stores will be closed for renovations on the day that the iPhone 3G-S debuts. However, the remainder of the 205 U.S. stores, including those within malls, have made arrangements [...]

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One of the most classic stores in Apple’s retail chain will receive a major overhaul during a nearly four-week renovation starting the end of June. The Walt Whitman (NY) store was the #54 when it opened in 2003, and still sports its original wood floor, Corian display tables and glass partitions. The front of the [...]

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The recent changes to the training (One To One) is not the only thing that has changed. When the stores opened they were intended to be a place were you could shop for a Mac but we didn’t care if you bought it from the Apple Store or a reseller.  The staff was always rated [...]

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One of the most unique and spectacular Apple stores in the United States cost millions of dollars to build and outfit, but was almost never constructed–it was a last minute change to the architectural plans of the Scottsdale Quarter (Ariz.) shopping complex being constructed in several phases in the suburbs of Phoenix. The store held [...]

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Locating an Apple store in one of the most affluent areas of the country demands a substantial investment, and that’s what the company is doing at the Americana Manhasset mall on Long Island (NY). Apple is spending several million dollars to demolish a former bank branch, and build a new all-steel structure for a 4,000 [...]

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A photographic peak into the future Apple store space along Wisconsin Avenue in Washington (DC) reveals that no interior work has been performed. Apple purchased the former French Connection store in 2007 for $13.7 million, but had to endure almost a year of wrangling by District boards and commissions to obtain approval for architectural plans. [...]

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The introduction of Apple’s third version of the iPhone on June 19th will once again test the retail stores’ ability to efficiently handle crowds of customers and the complex process of cellular phone registration. Apple has posted instructions for buying an iPhone on-line, saying customers can simply walk in to the nearest Apple store, but [...]

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In the wake of the economic downturn, Apple’s retail real estate team is scouting Dublin (Ireland) to find the perfect space for a retail store. The Tribune newspaper reports that Apple has retained real estate advisors Jones Lang LaSalle to help locate about 6,000 square-feet, possibly on two levels. According to the newspaper, the scouting [...]

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The newest store in the Phoenix area will open at the Scottsdale Quarter shopping mall this Friday at 6 p.m. The store will fifth city in the metro area. The store is located in a conspicuous spot along Scottsdale Road, in Building C. The mall opened March 26th with just two retailers in the first [...]

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