A group of alert Apple enthusiasts in Perth (Australia) have tracked down the probable location for a future retail store in that city: 790-794 Hay Street in city center. As first posted on the MacTalk forum, on November 19th an application was filed with the city planning agency for partial demolition at the rear of [...]

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Apple has announced that the Chermside (Brisbane) retail store will hold its grand opening this Saturday at 10 a.m. It will be the first store for the Brisbane region and the sixth store in the country. The store is set inside the Westfield Chermside shopping mall, north of city center.
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After a long and heated battle by art deco preservationists in Melbourne (Australia), Victoria state officials have given the owner of the Lonsdale House permission to demolish the five-story building and widen an adjacent street by 13 feet to accommodate delivery trucks that might be servicing a future Apple store. The “Save Lonsdale House” group [...]

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Apple will open a store in the city of Perth (Australia) early next year, the first location in the western region of the continent. The exact location of the future store isn’t know, but it will definitely be in center of this coastal city of 1.6 million residents. It would be the sixth store in [...]

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Just two weeks after the first Apple store opened in the Brisbane (Australia) region, local Web sites have discovered a second store is planned for the Westfield Chermside mall in the northern suburbs of the metro region. The mall is Queensland’s largest and, with 400 shops, is also among the country’s largest malls. Like the existing [...]

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The fifth Apple store on the continent of Australia will open this Saturday at Westfield Doncaster, in the suburbs of Melbourne. The store is set inside one of the country’s largest malls, and is about 30 minutes from the existing Chadstone retail store. The doors will open at 9 .m. and will include the traditional [...]

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Residents of the Robina (Australia) region may be 7,100 miles from Apple’s headquarters, but their hearts are close to the Robina Town Centre, where the newest Apple retail store opened Saturday morning. A large crowd started forming at 9 p.m. Friday night, according to a report from Paul. He says the friendly mall security team allowed [...]

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The fourth in a series of Australia retail stores will open this Saturday at the Robina Town Centre on the very-liveable Gold Coast just south of Brisbane. The store will extend Apple’s east coast coverage considerably north from the existing Sydney and Melbourne locations. The shopping development includes a water-side component, several major retail anchors, [...]

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Apple will open a high-profile store on the ground floor of the future Philippine Stock Exchange high-rise office buildiing in Manila suburb, according to the Web site of an engineering company hired to perform sustainability studies for the high-rise project. According to the CB Engineers Web site, the Apple store will be the anchor tenant [...]

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If you’re a mall developer trying to sell a new project, there is nothing more attractive than an Apple logo on your architectural renderings. Many times the appearance of the logo is entirely speculative, but other times the logo or other details indicate that an Apple store will eventually appear at the new mall. The [...]

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A small number of Apple store will be forced to cut about six hours of weekly shopping from their schedule, after mall developer Westfield Group announced their 55 U.S. malls will now open later and close earlier six days a week. The change will affect only 15 Apple stores, or fewer than six percent of [...]

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Macworld keynote speaker Phil Schiller left no doubt about why Apple will no longer attend the annual January conference and expo in San Francisco–the company’s stores already attracts the equivalent of 100 Macworld crowds each week, making the conference unnecessary. Schiller walked on stage and thanked the audience, after generous applause that seemed to acknowledge the [...]

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Despite the economic crisis, information from tipsters and other sources indicate no slowdown in Apple store grand openings for the first half of 2009. According to an IFO analysis, at least 11 stores could open between January and June, indicating that 36 stores might open for the entire year, a figure in line with 2005-2007 activity. Historically, [...]

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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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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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