“Apple is flexing its retail muscles again with four new store locations, confirming that the Retail segment is king around Cupertino. First, Apple is filling out the southern California scene with a future store at the Brea Mall, in Orange County north of Anaheim, and a store at The Oaks mall in Thousand Oaks, about 45 minutes northwest of LA. Apple is also adding to the New York City region, with a store inside the Staten Island Mall (NY), the only regional mall on the island. And lastly, another store in the Boston region, at the Burlington Mall northwest of B-Town along I-95,” ifoAppleStore.com reports.
Full article here.
AppleInsider has additional details on the four new stores locations, including their location within the malls and that at least two of the leases have not yet been signed. Also of note is information about the in-progress Westchester (NY) store remodel and enlargement that will also serve as a test store for a new arrangement or design. The Cupertino, Calif-based company now operates over 100 stores worldwide and plans to roll-out at least another 20 by the end of the calendar year. In effect, Apple is launching one new retail store almost every 10 days. More info here.
We need another one here in Manhattan in the midtown area real soon!
two new stores opening up here in Portland, Oregon in the next few months too!
all we need now is a big azz one here in milwaukee
What’s a milwaukiee?
the speed limit on the interstate in new mexico is 75 mph. i’m not asking for much, just a store within a day’s driving distance!
OK, now this I don’t understand. They are going to open another store in the Burlington mall in Massachusetts, but there is already one in Peabody at the Northshore Mall. They have had a store staked out at the Braintree South Shore Plaza since around October but have not opened it yet, but still paying rent on the space. How long does it take to actually open the store once the spot is picked and the lease signed?
20 stores in seven months? That doesn’t seem possible, but the best of luck Apple.
Burlington! Great! From 30 to just 5 minutes from home now…
shipwithsails missed that Apple has one planned for Hingham as well. Anyway, Chestnut Hill and Cambridgeside are usually packed on weekends. I’ve never been to the Peabody store but have heard good things about the Apple staff there. The Braintree store seemed to have been delayed while Apple waited for a neighboring store to vacate.
And don’t forget the first canadian Apple store on the 21st of May!!!!
hey! a straight news story wih no sign of an inflammatory comment on an opinion piece written by a pc-biased moron…
you’ll be losing readers mdn…
Let’s go, Appleton, WI!
The strategy is good. More stores so that when Apple starts to advertise people will have a place close by to go and browse befor they buy. Beleive it or not, some people still don’t wan to shop online. I like to feel before I buy..
Same here Mac4life.
//PowerMac
Three locations in Orange County and all three are equally far away from my Orange County house. How about one in west Orange County. Or better yet, Long Beach. There are three malls that would be perfect for Apple.
Yes I know I have nothing to complain about compared to the rest of the country (or the world) but we have a lot of computer buyers concentrated here.
Realtors of the future — We have a lovely 3 bedroom house close to a park, 3 schools, 2 freeways, and an Apple store!
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yeah lets get a flagships in Milwaukee!!!!
SUH-WEEET!!!
I live in thousand oaks and hate having to drive all the way to northridge to go to an apple store. Now i can go every weekend!
Yeah, I’m with “moo” and “g6” let’s get a flagship apple store here in MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN!!!!
MDN Magic Word: “tell” as in tell steve jobs Milwaukee needs a flagship apple store.. stat
They need more stores in the upper Illinois region.Like Gurnee or somethin!
where the heck is new mexico?
What happened to all tose gateway stores?
YAY! More stores…though one on Long Island, NY would be good, Green Hills Mall would be great!
I would have rather seen Apple put a store in Nashua NH than at the Burlington mall. Nashua is only a short drive from Burlington and there is NO SALES TAX in NH. Rather than go to Cambridgeside or Chestnut Hill, I drive up to the Salem NH store to avoid the MA sales tax. The Salem NH store is packed just about any night I drive up there, weeknight, weekend, whenever. I purchased a 12″ Powerbook, MS Office and a software package to help me learn Italian last week. By buying all of this stuff at the Salem NH store rather than in Cambridge or Chestnut Hill, I saved well over $100 in sales tax alone. Although I live closer to Burlington than I do to Salem NH, I’d much rather drive to NH than pay anymore taxes than I have to, to the Commonwealth.
Rumor has it that an Apple Store will open in the new expansion planned for the Dayton Mall in Dayton, Ohio. Supposedly it will be this year, but the expansion project hasn’t begun yet.
I would have thought that Fairfield Commons would have been a better, more”upscale” area to be in but that would put it close to an existing independent Mac store.
Apple can keep their NYC stores on Staten Island. Tekserve treats me better than the Apple Store ever did.
Gee whiz, it’s so nice to see Apple servicing the U.S. market. In A’stralia we’re still waiting for iTunes Music Store.
I thought I’d throw that one in the ring, just to keep up the pressure on Apple.
We are not happy Apple…we are not happy at all.