“For months, 16-year-old Matt Chappelle heard the rumours, watched the store being built and waited,” Kelly Pedro reports for The London Free Press.
“But Saturday those months dwindled to hours, then seconds until Chappelle became the first customer to enter the new Apple store at Masonville Place,” Pedro reports. “Chappelle and his mother Denyse, were the first people in line, arriving at 5:20 a.m. to check out the new store that’s an Apple lover’s dream, with all the latest products available.”
Pedro reports, “About 300 people — some travelling from as far as Port Huron, Mich. — were waiting in line, wrapped around the second floor of the mall before the store opened at 10 am… The Masonville store is the tech-giant’s first in London, its tenth in Ontario and 23rd in Canada. ”
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MacDailyNews Take: And not one free Bieber ticket anywhere on the premises.
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