“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.