“Apple has confirmed last month’s tip of a future retail store at the Fifth Avenue Mall in Anchorage (Alaska) by posting job listings for the location,” Gary Allen reports for ifoAppleStore.com.
“It would be the furthest-north store in the chain, at 61° north latitude, just 320 miles south of the Arctic Circle,” Allen reports. “The store will open in September.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s second “Fifth Avenue” store! Just 4,361 miles apart!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Sarah” for the heads up.]
That explains the flurry of activity. Snow Leopard will be hit.
Tacky.
Can you see Russia from this particular Apple store?
Only if you’re Tina Fey.
Can we please stop this disinformation? It’s up there with the “Al Gore invented the Internet,” line. Palin never said she could see Russia, and Gore never said he invented the Internet.
No, but Gore did say he could see Palin on the Internet from his room while in Russia….I heard.
Oh really? Didn’t Sarah Palin say that you could shoot Polar Bears in Alaska?
I don’t know.
Next time I see her, I’ll ask uh.
The greater metropolitan statistical area for Anchorage is less than 400K people. Maybe there’s hope that with our MSA of 500K that we might get an Apple Store some day.
Or 850,000 for Little Rock/Pine Bluff?
Little Rock’s problem is that there is a store in Memphis (Germantown is what it’s listed as). Not that close, but I guess close enough. Anchorage on the other hand, the nearest store was probably Vancouver.
I don’t see it as an either/or, they both need a store.
Also, the Germantown store is 3.5 to 4 hours from Little Rock because of it’s location on the east side of Memphis.
And if you live southwest of Little Rock, it is even further!
I would think Edmonton AB is closer, if you’re driving or using sled dogs.
Also, according to Wikipedia, Anchorage is the most tax-friendly city in the entire country (probably to draw business up there), so it may be relatively cheap to put a store there.
Alaska, land of conservative values. We love that state! Vote the commies out in 2012!
Get well Steve Jobs!
I would think they would want it to be open during our tourist season here (Mid-May to Early-September). Not sure it makes sense to open it so late in the year.
BTW, we have a saying in Alaska that gets localized for whatever city/town/village you are in: “It’s not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.” Sarah is actually allowed to paraphrase that anytime and any way she likes!
I spent eleven months on Adak, that was at the end of the world.
I shouldn’t bother mentioning the 11 days I spent on Shemya that felt like 11 months…..
Anchorage fits Apples desirable locations, it has a highly affluent population of almost 400K young &, highly educated ( a university with 20,000 students in the city), a low tax rate and Anchorage serves as the entire state of Alaska marketplace. Chain business’ that locate to Anchorage often find their Alaskan entries to be amongst the most successful of their locations in the USA. You can bet this store will be a good move into the Last Frontier.