“When Apple opens its seventh Houston-area store in the Highland Village shopping center on Friday, it will boast the largest sales area of the company’s Texas retail outlets,” Dwight Silverman reports for The Houston Chronicle.
“The store’s doors will open at 8 a.m. Friday, the same day that Apple’s third-generation iPad will go on sale,” Silverman reports. “An Apple spokeswoman would not say whether all its stores will open at that time on Friday, but an early opening is typical when the company starts selling a new iPad or iPhone model.”
Silverman reports, “The first 1,000 customers in the store on Friday will get a commemorative T-shirt, the spokesperson said. Chances are that most of those will be buyers in the line that is expected to form for the new iPad, which Apple announced last Wednesday. The other Houston-area Apple stores are in the Galleria, Memorial City Mall, Baybrook Mall, The Woodlands Mall, Willowbrook Mall and First Colony Mall.”
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What no concert tickets?
it’s gonna be a bit crowded at the Apple Stores Friday
The new Highland Village store in Houston will be a nightmare to visit due to the lack of parking. I don’t know what they were thinking putting it there.
Seriously.
Are all Apple stores giving out T-shirts or just the one in the story?
Just the newly-opened store. This is how Apple always opens stores; I have about 5 “store opening” t-shirts myself.