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A Home Town Apple Store
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DawnTreader
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I was at the new Apple retail store at the Valencia Town Center early this afternoon. I see the store as a boost to a city is a classic example of an American boomburb and a city that has really come into its own in the almost 25 years since it was formally incorporated.
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Very nice for you too DT! Of course, we’ll need a big increase in the value of our Apple stock to offset the increased spending on Apple devices for with those of us with new Apple stores.
If I sent you some maple syrup to celebrate my new Apple store, what would come back to represent Santa Clarita?
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I just moved from Marin County to San Francisco. I am within a few blocks of an Apple store on Chestnut Street. That store is always busy, just like my previous store in Corte Madera (Marin County, CA). I’ve been spoiled living most my life in a major metro area with Apple stores all over the place but I’m looking for Apple to open another major store in SF somewhere. If they can do a store in Grand Central Station they can do something incredible in SF too.
Pity poor Seattle. We have a small store in an upscale mall ten miles north of downtown, a small store in a mall 15 miles north of downtown and a small one in Bellevue, across Lake Washington. Nothing in downtown Seattle at all. And no decent sized stores, period. Microsoft has built a store much bigger than it’s Apple counterparts at two of the malls.
Seattle deserves a flagship store, complete with Douglas fir columns and salmon colored iPods.
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DawnTreader
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Very nice for you too DT! Of course, we’ll need a big increase in the value of our Apple stock to offset the increased spending on Apple devices for with those of us with new Apple stores.
If I sent you some maple syrup to celebrate my new Apple store, what would come back to represent Santa Clarita?
I’d like to send you today’s 40 degree C day, but I’d prefer to keep you as a friend. Darn it. I miss the northeast in late summer and fall.
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DawnTreader
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I just moved from Marin County to San Francisco. I am within a few blocks of an Apple store on Chestnut Street. That store is always busy, just like my previous store in Corte Madera (Marin County, CA). I’ve been spoiled living most my life in a major metro area with Apple stores all over the place but I’m looking for Apple to open another major store in SF somewhere. If they can do a store in Grand Central Station they can do something incredible in SF too.
Pity poor Seattle. We have a small store in an upscale mall ten miles north of downtown, a small store in a mall 15 miles north of downtown and a small one in Bellevue, across Lake Washington. Nothing in downtown Seattle at all. And no decent sized stores, period. Microsoft has built a store much bigger than it’s Apple counterparts at two of the malls.
Seattle deserves a flagship store, complete with Douglas fir columns and salmon colored iPods.
I’m with you until you get to salmon-colored iPods.
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Aug.20 we have our first Apple Store opening in Berkeley. 10 minutes away in Emeryville, we have another. 20 minutes away in Walnut Creek there is another Apple Store. Right over the bridge in SF. there is a two floor Apple Store.
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DawnTreader
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Aug.20 we have our first Apple Store opening in Berkeley. 10 minutes away in Emeryville, we have another. 20 minutes away in Walnut Creek there is another Apple Store. Right over the bridge in SF. there is a two floor Apple Store.
The new store opening is obviously timed for the opening of the fall semester. An Apple retail store in Berkeley is a sound investment.
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Aug.20 we have our first Apple Store opening in Berkeley. 10 minutes away in Emeryville, we have another. 20 minutes away in Walnut Creek there is another Apple Store. Right over the bridge in SF. there is a two floor Apple Store.
Let’s not forget the mothership an hour away. I’m showing up at 9:45 this Saturday to get a free t-shirt (1st thousand people). If there are more than a thousand people at that time, I will be amazed, very happily surprised and a little disappointed to not get a t-shirt.
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My son and I got t-shirts when the Emeryville store opened. Hoping to get one at the new Berkeley store.
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DawnTreader
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Aug.20 we have our first Apple Store opening in Berkeley. 10 minutes away in Emeryville, we have another. 20 minutes away in Walnut Creek there is another Apple Store. Right over the bridge in SF. there is a two floor Apple Store.
Let’s not forget the mothership an hour away. I’m showing up at 9:45 this Saturday to get a free t-shirt (1st thousand people). If there are more than a thousand people at that time, I will be amazed, very happily surprised and a little disappointed to not get a t-shirt.
Do you think there’s only 1,000 T-shirts? What’s said may not be the supply. Either way you will come out a winner.
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I just moved from Marin County to San Francisco. I am within a few blocks of an Apple store on Chestnut Street. That store is always busy, just like my previous store in Corte Madera (Marin County, CA). I’ve been spoiled living most my life in a major metro area with Apple stores all over the place but I’m looking for Apple to open another major store in SF somewhere. If they can do a store in Grand Central Station they can do something incredible in SF too.
Pity poor Seattle. We have a small store in an upscale mall ten miles north of downtown, a small store in a mall 15 miles north of downtown and a small one in Bellevue, across Lake Washington. Nothing in downtown Seattle at all. And no decent sized stores, period. Microsoft has built a store much bigger than it’s Apple counterparts at two of the malls.
Seattle deserves a flagship store, complete with Douglas fir columns and salmon colored iPods.
The U-District store is only around 3-4 miles from DT Seattle last time I checked, but it is far nicer than the cubbyhole space in Bellevue. The latter location is in the process of being upgraded to a MUCH larger footprint inside the Mall. However, there’s NO sign of construction, and absent any progress in the near term, it’s likely to miss the holiday season.
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DawnTreader
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The U-District store is only around 3-4 miles from DT Seattle last time I checked, but it is far nicer than the cubbyhole space in Bellevue. The latter location is in the process of being upgraded to a MUCH larger footprint inside the Mall. However, there’s NO sign of construction, and absent any progress in the near term, it’s likely to miss the holiday season.
Older stores are going through a remodel. Between new stores being opened and older stores remodeled, the company is quite busy with retail store plans.
The new Apple retail store at the Americana is apparently quite a sight.
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The U-District store is only around 3-4 miles from DT Seattle last time I checked, but it is far nicer than the cubbyhole space in Bellevue. The latter location is in the process of being upgraded to a MUCH larger footprint inside the Mall. However, there’s NO sign of construction, and absent any progress in the near term, it’s likely to miss the holiday season.
Older stores are going through a remodel. Between new stores being opened and older stores remodeled, the company is quite busy with retail store plans.
The new Apple retail store at the Americana is apparently quite a sight.
DT, I don’t know how close you are to Santa Monica but this looks like an interesting new concept for Apple retail store in a mall.
Edit: BTW, this is how Apple takes advantage of Borders going bankrupt, not by buying it’s assets.
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DawnTreader
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DT, I don’t know how close you are to Santa Monica but this looks like an interesting new concept for Apple retail store in a mall.
Edit: BTW, this is how Apple takes advantage of Borders going bankrupt, not by buying it’s assets.
I’m in Santa Monica as frequently as visits to the city interest me. This interests me.
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Aug.20 we have our first Apple Store opening in Berkeley.
I’m showing up at 9:45 this Saturday to get a free t-shirt (1st thousand people). If there are more than a thousand people at that time, I will be amazed, very happily surprised and a little disappointed to not get a t-shirt.
Do you think there’s only 1,000 T-shirts? What’s said may not be the supply. Either way you will come out a winner.
I was late and didn’t get to the store until 10:15 am. I waited 30 min. to get in and there were plenty of t-shirts left. No doubt DT was right and they had more than 1k available.
Great atmosphere. Lots of Apple blue-shirts walking around inside & outside chatting with people. Anyone who needed help inside the store had no problems finding someone to ask. Various vendors walked the line handing out freebies: bottled water, apples, cookies, etc. They did not represent Apple, just their own product or store.
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DawnTreader
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Great atmosphere. Lots of Apple blue-shirts walking around inside & outside chatting with people. Anyone who needed help inside the store had no problems finding someone to ask. Various vendors walked the line handing out freebies: bottled water, apples, cookies, etc. They did not represent Apple, just their own product or store.
I’m sure it was hectic, but did you see any Macs leave the store?
