Apple has permanently shut down its retail stores in Charlotte, North Carolina, after the mall where it’s located suffered at least three shootings in recent months.
“In preparation for a new store we plan to open in the Charlotte area early next year, we will be permanently closing Wednesday, March 1st at 4pm.” – Apple.com
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
The company informed the store’s employees on Wednesday that the location would be closing immediately, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The store was open for business Wednesday morning and a copy of its website from the previous day showed no plans for it to change business hours or close.
The shootings at the mall contributed to the decision, the people said.
Apple told employees that there will be no layoffs and that staff at the Northlake Mall site would be transfered to the nearby SouthPark location in Charlotte or roles working at the company’s online store.
The iPhone maker is also opening a new location in Charlotte next year to replace the Northlake Mall store. Plans for that store were already in the works before the recent shootings.
MacDailyNews Take: Better safe than sorry.
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Smart decision, especially since rumor has it that the new Northlake Mall “security” manager is Lori Lightfoot, relocating from Chicago.
if Apple’s opening up a store in SouthPark, perhaps it will be featured in the Canadian Prince and his wife’s next Worldwide Privacy Tour
Defund the police. Coming to your city next. How’s that working in Charlotte?
Anyone say gun control? Time for action
No. Nobody said gun control. Why, you ask? Because it won’t impact the criminals with guns.
Americans have guns because democrats are violent
Didn’t comedian Jim Jeffries do a great skit on this subject? Think it was on Netflix. Probably on YouTube as well.
So funny
Sure… because you decide to look at 2 variables in isolation. In other news, roads are now safer since there are few horse accidents today. Cherry picked statistics cannot lie, right genius?
To approach the ideal of World Peace in your dense way of thinking would require everyone of any mental capacity to carry nuclear bombs, regardless of prior known psychological issues.
You keep reminding us never to trust you, idiot.
Gun control, applied sanely, allows responsible users to enjoy their rights while preventing mass murderers the most convenient tool to cause carnage. Common sense that is totally in keeping with the prevailing laws that the founding fathers experienced in their time, and totally appropriate today when technology has dramatically changed the paradigm.
Over 37000 US deaths in 2023 (so far) involving guns. Stay strong comrads. The answer must be more guns for that’s all we know!! Hand em out like soda.
I guess Mike forgot to type the //s at the end of his post. Anyone with a logical brain knows that the ability to defend one’s self deters bad guys because they never know who will pop up and take them out if they try an armed robbery or shoot-em-up. Right Mikey?? “Gun control” means only the criminals will control the guns….
Ok Rambo. Spoken like only an American can. Other countries have implemented gun control successfully. Educate yourself.
Come and get ’em.
Mikey:
Ok numbnuts. The USA isn’t “other countries” and has been exceptional since its inception for the very Contstitutional amendment rights and structure. We have no compulsion or need to adopt the operational bases of “other countries.” If you don’t like it, take a long walk off of a short pier.
The people have spoken and voted you down. Keep shooting yourselves though, might do you some good
How are those rights working though Citizen? Multiple mass shootings every year killing innocent people (including children). Your answer is more guns? That won’t fix a thing and is fundamentally flawed thinking. The answer lies in our disfunctional society.
Wake up, Mike. There are over 220,000 gun control laws on the books in the USA present day.
CRIMINALS DO NOT OBEY LAWS!!!
Duh… 🙄
Citizen-
Having a gun to, as you say, deter bad guys doesn’t appear to be working at all. If it did, there would be no shootings like this one in our mall. Sadly this country of ours is killing our own people
The problems in Charlotte would be easily fixed if they would simply allow men to come I to the Ladies rooms whenever they feel like a woman. And if they kept the white people out of the malls.
Crime is destroying malls, just like it has destroyed downtowns. People will not go where they don’t feel safe.
Apple tie-in: did your favorite Apple retail executive have the ability to save JC Penny, major mall anchor store, from the massive changes in retail of the last 30 years?
Did malls decline first because of crime, or did abandoned malls begin to appear because of of low overhead outfits like Walmart and Amazon aimed precisely to kill the higher cost mall with all its fancy atmospheres and overhead? Could it be that increasing youth unemployment leads to crime?
Why didn’t the law&order party clean up all this supposed crime to save big retailers when the trend began? Why don’t they now?
Maybe as usual the Big Business party is willing to turn its back on Main Street as long as their multinational Big Oil campaign funders are happy