“Apple is opening 5 new retail stores [today],” Arnold Kim reports for MacRumors.
• Anchorage 5th Avenue Mall (Anchorage, Alaska): The new store will be Apple’s first location in Alaska.
• Fashion Place (Murray, Utah): Apple’s second store in Utah, the new store covers the southern suburban stretch of Salt Lake City suburbs to complement the company’s existing store at The Gateway in downtown Salt Lake City.
• Southland (Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia): The new store is Apple’s third location in the Melbourne area and its twelfth overall for Australia.
• Conestoga: (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada): Apple’s 20th retail store in Canada, the new location is also notable for its placement in the hometown of smartphone competitor Research in Motion.
• I Gigli: (Florence, Italy): The new store is Apple’s sixth location in Italy and first in the Florence area, filling a gap between the company’s store in Rome and a series of stores in northern Italy across the Turin, Milan, and Bergamo.
“The new stores include two U.S. locations and three international ones,” Kim reports.
MacRumors has posted photos from the store’s grand openings int he full article here.
…and Little frickin’ Rock, AR………FINALLY!
http://www.katv.com/story/15260875/apple-coming-to-little-rock-company-ranked-worlds-most-valuable
Don’t forget those 15 more that are opening up in China! :-/
Apple’s new stores in China have a lot of competition to go up against. There are dozens of fake Apple stores here that have FAR lower prices. Fake iPhones are only $60 in Shanghai. Fake iPads are a bit more. I played around with a counterfeit MacBook Pro the other day and was blown away at how well the Chinese copied it.
From electronics to cars (GM and VW), there is nothing the Chinese cant knock off.
It’s more like, there’s nothing they won’t knock-off or steal.
Stoers.
Now if they could just add a couple stores here in south Texas.
Still waiting for Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
One more in Iowa and one in Rochester MN home of Mayo Clinic
Need one in Lexington, KY.
Fayette Mall ???
http://www.apple.com/retail/fayettemall/
Ok, let’s get Virginia Beach on the list…..
And two more stores in Mount Everest and Mount Fuji. And coming soon, a store on the Moon to cater to space tourists.
What about one in Ireland…. Come on apple….!
Hopefully they are working on a new store at Stratford City shopping centre, next to the 2012 Olympics site. It will be very convenient for me!
and about Berlin the CAPITAL of Germany????????
Hard to believe apple is only 5-6% computer market share….there is a LOT if potential for growth….
I really hope Microsoft tries to one-up Apple by creating the biggest Microsoft store ever. Even grander than Grand Central Manhattan – they’re going to buy Harrods in London and convert it into 20 million square feet of multilevel floorspace for the vista 7 display.
The basement will be for big ass tables, zunes on the third floor and xbox/kenect will be sold in the foyer with MSN CDs.