“Apple’s stores are leading the retail industry in revenue per square foot, and none of its competitors seem to be able to crack the code,” Geoff Duncan writes for DigitalTrends.
“According to RetailSails, Apple Stores generate more revenue per square foot than stores operated by high-end jewelry retailer Tiffany & Company. That would be impressive in its own right – Tiffany & Co. is the leading retail diamond merchant and came in number two in RetailSails’ metrics,” Duncan writes. “But Apple didn’t just beat Tiffany, it trounced the poor jeweler: RetailSails estimates Apple stores pulled in $6,050 per square foot, compared to $3,017 per square foot for Tiffany & Co. Other retailers didn’t even come close.”
Duncan writes, “Given that Apple stores have been around since 2001, why haven’t other retailers been able to copy the experience and try to beat Apple at its own game?”
Read more in the full article here.
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Cuz they have shit to sell that no one cares that much about.
Yes, YOU have “cracked the code.” All the stuff mentioned in the article is VERY important. But it’s NOT more important (for generating sales) than actually having products customers want to buy.
In one.
It’s easy for Apple to maintain sky-high revenue per square foot when the stores are always jammed with people. Could this be a reason why Apple is slow to expand the sizes of existing stores—that topping Tiffany’s is high-luster free P.R.? On the other hand, doubling the store footprint with the same customer volume would halve the revenue ratio, and the headlines would trumpet imminent doom. At least until additional folks showed up. “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded” – Yogi Berra
Another reason to leave the old stores alone is that opening new stores has higher marginal value. Not only does it expand Apple’s geographical reach, but also every opening is a spectacle, generating more free press coverage and arousing consumer interest.
Still, those old, crowded stores need attention because ultimately Apple is a brand, one that needs sparkle to work its magic. Apple’s focus seems to be on conquering new lands, but it needs to keep the home fires burning too.
You couldn’t have hit it more on the head, even though as obvious as it could be except to analysts and tech writers. You just don’t have to over-think this stuff.
code to crack?…excellence is no mystery.
The virtue of excellence is no mystery and we all can learn to strive for excellence in everything we do. The comment from macaholic above does not quite meet that target however.
To clarify, the stuff that no one wants that I was referring to is the other store’s crap, not Apple’s fine products.
He meant that you should consider cleaning up your language
Oh please!
I think they’re selling crack.
Well, they made good products. The mystery is quite the opposite: how the others are still in business when they manufacture so much turd.
Advertising can be a powerful force for evil. Apparently you can fool most of the people all of the time.
hence, the last two presidential elections.
correction: the last four presidential elections.
Correction: all elections ever in every country
Naaa… we did very well (or were very lucky) the first time around. Unlike our esteemed “leaders” of the past century or so, Ol’ George knew when enough was enough.
It’s just been downhill ever since then.
Oh, for fuck sake… why couldn’t you just keep the discussion to Apple and marketing? Every fucking opportunity. Blah, blah, blah. Fuck off.
you’re cranky.
And you are highly irritating, botvinnik. You seem to be unable to absorb the message – go somewhere else for political talk.
lol, what a fine hypocrite you are!
http://samuel-warde.com/2012/11/did-anonymous-block-carl-roves-attempt-to-steal-election/
Botvinnik, please keep reminding us that we live in a new world where Emporer Obmambo from Kenya is the new brown messiah surrouded by his criminal gang and we must all lean forward daily to receive his filthy communist blessings shoved up our ass.
All hail Emporer Oscumbo the Kenyan!
Ubermac — So much small-minded poison; so little ability to articulate anything meaningful.
“This is a Mac news site. On that count alone, fuck off.”
I don’t know who’s worse–botvinnik or
Ubermac …are you guys off your meds or something??? Or perhaps listening to too much Rush Limburger? LOL
@Uberdickhead: You suck! (said in loud stadium cheer type voice)
The Messiah is with us!
Wall Street insists Apple’s days are nearly over because most consumers will be buying $50 Android smartphones and $100 Android tablets because they’ll be getting more features for less money. This is supposedly the last Christmas for Apple’s high sales. It’s being claimed that there’s nothing left in Apple’s product pipeline because Steve Jobs is no longer alive.
When a company such as Apple only warrants a P/E of 12.94 yet Microsoft has a P/E of 14.97, you know Wall Street has already declared Apple as having nearly no future.
That’s because Wall Street is full of even bigger wankers than you, laughing clot.
Do you even have a clue as to what your talking about when it comes to Price to Earning ratio?
As far as who’s selling more, anyone who’s relevant will pay up for quality. All others will settle for android. Btw market share of the Zune…,er, um Lumia phones will eat away at android more so then iPhone. Now go and run along 🙂
And yet, somehow Apple continues to have record revenue and earnings each year-over-year quarter. Apple has historically only come out with a new direction in technology every 5 to 7 years. They just comparatively recently introduced the iPad. It’s a bit pre-mature to say they’re out of ideas.
For your consideration.
http://beta.fool.com/danielsparks/2012/11/22/six-facts-helping-apple-investors-sleep-well/17109/
Too bad there is no connection between the real world of the marketplace and the fantasyland of Wall Street.
We all might be far better off if there were… by which, I mean Wall Street being connected to reality.
PEG (ratio of P/E to growth rate) is a better metric than just P/E. A high or low P/E can be justified by circumstances, or it can be driven by unreasonable pessimism or irrational exuberance. When you compare a company’s P/E to growth, you get a better idea of whether the company is over or undervalued relative to its past (trailing) or estimated future (leading) growth rate. Apple has grown very fast over the past five years, and it’s PEG shows that it has been consistently undervalued. The market drivers cannot seem to believe that Apple’s revenues and profits can continue to grow year over year, even when faced with reality. As has been demonstrated, we know a lot more about Apple than does Wall Street.
Apple has really good products that a lot of people can afford.
Its a lot of things. The Genius Bar breeds trust, and that is marketable, because people will buy where they trust, plus real ly top quality service. I went in to buy an iPhone, and put it off for three days, and the gal who waited on me KNEW that I had been there a few days before . There was a hitch in updating with Verizon and she stuck with me. I never have that kind of retail experience anywhere else. And when my five year old iMac locked up, I went in and the guy cleared the problem in 10 minutes. Yea, the products are unmatched, but why would I ever consider buying elsewhere?
No where else are you treated that well. Thank God Browett is gone!
It is because companies have a hard time turning away from dollars and cents and towards customer service. The difference is company culture. No one motivates you like yourself, and when you are in a culture that focuses and customer service and not dollars and cents, you end up with success.
This is hardly news. Apple Stores have been leading retail for years now.
Maybe the real news is that they continue to do so and signs of slowing down are not occurring.
Diamonds might be forever but you can’t network with them very well.
That depends… on what kind of networking you mean. 😉
Even more impressive when you consider how small diamonds and jewelry are, and how much more sq. footage that iMacs and laptops occupy
.. you know like all the other electronic retailers
I bet it will STILL outsell the other dudes, perhaps not to the level of twice Tiffany’s but still outsell them.
that’s because they have products people WANT
man, people line up on start day at run down god awful ugly miserable phone stores to get an iPhone, and others go there every day to see if they have stock. The reason those phone stores don’t make more per square foot is that they also have bins of black berries etc that nobody wants that they have to write off , deal with android returns (many times higher than the iPhone) and waste time on support ( “how do I load my desktop MS Office onto this Windows Phone? Windows is unified right? )
Apple can’t be beat because…
once you go black…(apple is in the black too ; )
or once you taste caviar, you don’t go back
case closed.
Nobody can crack the code because only Apple speaks Apple. It’s obviously a language that Apple fans understand. What can you do?
Another worthless article written for the sake writing something about Apple. The writer should jump off a cliff is this bs is the best he can do……
“why haven’t other retailers been able to copy the experience” ?
Microsoft has already (embarrassingly) tried.
Well sorta, except for the part where u have product in the store that people actually want.
You’d never know Apple continues to do well thanks to underhanded Wall Street pricks.
The code is simple. Go into any Apple store. Clear one table off, then place one of each Apple hardware product on the table. You will have room left, yet in that universe of products on the table there is something that everyone, from a kid with $50 to a middle schooler with $300 or a college student with $1200 or just about anyone with any money, would want and have their lives enriched by having it. There is no other store in the country that can make that claim.
Personally, I’m avoiding Apple Stores right now, because I know the next time I walk through the door it’s going to cost about $3000 to get back out. In the past six months Apple has made every one of my very capable pieces of Apple hardware seem old, heavy and clunky. And they’re accelerating the process!! Damn you, Tim Cook and all your toiling minions!
Apple Stores have excellent customer services, this is the reason why Apple Retail is very successful and profitable. No codes and no mystery. It’s just plain old excellent customer services.
It’s no coincidence then that in our town the Apple Store is right next door to Tiffany & Co. and right across the street from a new Neiman Marcus.
It’s because they’re invoke in illegal activities!
By bringing in the foreign cash and redistributing it among the various stores, circumventing the tax code and the legal system.