Apple Store Eaton Centre, Canada’s second Apple Retail Store located in Toronto, Ontario (the other is Apple Store Yorkdale) celebrated their grand opening today and MacDailyNews reader “MacMania” has posted photos of the event via Flickr.
More info about Apple Store Eaton Centre can be found: http://www.apple.com/ca/retail/eatoncentre/
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Toronto’s Apple Store Eaton Centre grand opening this Saturday, May 6 – May 02, 2006
The broken glass front is weird looking….
The photos on Flicker don’t dont do it for me. They failed to capture the general ‘sexy’ feel that the apple design has. However, in the photographer’s defense, he was probably in a hurry to get in there and buy a new mac, and then in even more of a hurry to get it home and fire it up.
Regards, Mac Lovers,
Von Switched Rock
It’s cool to have a “real” apple store in toronto, the yorkdale one is tiny.
I hope that “carbon computing” doesn’t have their sales hurt too badly
by this corporate store, they are an awesome independant mac retailer
only a few miles from the Eaton Center.
mdn word: living (as in I’m living in TO)
It’s not broken glass effect. It’s broken “Windows” effect!
Can someone tell me why there are 2 stores in Toronto, but none anywhere else in Canada? WTF!
more photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neryorellana/tags/grandopening/
Tom Strong: Sure, because Toronto has a very high person-per-square-foot compared to most of the rest of Canada. Apple is putting stores where there’s the most people that will be customers.
There is more money per person in Calgary AB then anywhere in Canada.
You would think that would count for something.
I grabbed a few quick shots to give people a “feel” for the new Apple Store in the Toronto Eaton Centre. It’s much more spacious than the first Apple Store in Canada at Yorkdale Mall (just 30 min north of this one).
I don’t have stats to prove it, but I bet Toronto has at least double the average of Macintosh market share (whatever that really is). So it would have been nice to see a real statement rather than the two conservative shops Apple has opened in Canada so far.
But hey, they’re better than nothing, right?
You won’t get a store in Edmonton AB any time soon.
They will have to get the literacy level above 15% first.
I agree, Calgary should get an Apple store as well, as should Vancouver, Winnipeg, and most especially Montréal. (The vibe in Apple store and the vibe in downtown Montréal would go very well together).
Halifax would be another spot, but I don’t know it well enough to say whether it should go there as well. But I’m not in charge of Apple’s Canadian retail strategy, and I don’t have the market-share numbers to really make the strategic choice.
I guess Toronto is a start; hopefully we’ll see more Apple stores before too long.
Apple is planning on opening yet a third stor in Toronto at Sherway Gardens ( http://www.sherwaygardens.ca/home/index.ch2 ). And another Canadian store will FINALLY be opening outside of Toronto in Laval at Carrefour Mall ( http://www.carrefourlaval.ca/home/index.ch2 ).
Apple Canadian jobs page:
http://www.apple.com/ca/retail/jobs/
One is opening just North of Montréal at the massive
Carrefour Laval mall, this summer.
Oops! Macaholic was faster than me.
True, but your post is valuable as I didn’t reference Montreal
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I agree with LJ Gould, Apple and Montréal is a perfect fit, like bagels and cream cheese (or as a Montréaler would say… Smoked meat and Schwartz’s)
What a vibrant city that is.
That mall in Laval is apparently the largest mall in all of Quebec.
I heard somewhere it is the biggest mall in eastern Canada, over three hundred stores spread out on one level, that’s a lot of walking!
What’s with the bogus Macaholic? I am the original, even if I’m only in lower case!!
MW- himself …Wow, would like to know how they do that!
West Edmonton Mall, still the largest entertainment and shopping mall in North America and the third largest in the world, receives over 4 million visitors per year. International travel agencies offer discount deals for tourists to visit and shop ’til you drop. A great place for an Apple Store!
Talking to Big Al about Edmonton is like talking to a Windoze user about a Mac. Ignorance is bliss, and Big Al must be a very “happy” guy?
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MW = when
as in, it’s a matter of when it will happen, not if.
West Edmonton Mall encompasses 5.2-million square feet of total floor space, 800 stores (including 8 department stores), a 360-room hotel, and 110 restaurants and eating places. A full-scale amusement park with 47 different rides, an ocean-wave swimming pool with sand beach, an aquarium, a miniature golf course, and a wedding chapel.
Been “Macaholic” since Jan 7th, 2003 ( http://www.ehmac.ca/member.php?find=lastposter&t=39419 )… but I’ll bet niether of us were first out there in the big, wide web.
Okay big “M” Macaholic, you’re probably right. It’s just the first time that I have seen your “handle” on this board.
Big Al, LJ Gould , etc
Apple closed their corporate office in Calgary several years ago.
Simply not enough reason for it to exist there as the penetration of Apple into anything beyond publishing and education was nil.
There was no justification for it as nearly none of the big businesses in town had anything but Windows.
An Apple store in Calgary might find similar conditions to the corporate market and so simply not be sustainable regardless of how much money there is.
Apple puts stores where there’s a decent population (Calgary is still too small) and a rasonable user base (Toronto surpasses Calgary there)
magic word : market (as in one has to exist before Apple put a store there)
Isn’t this just… er… a reader feedback thing? It’s not a forum.
Anyway, cheers!
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