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Apple Stores are the most profitable retail outlets in the world.
The average store generates $5,600 per square foot a year and attracts 20,000 visitors per week.
Carmine Gallo spent the last year researching Apple Stores around the world for a new book. He found that Apple uses subtle psychology to induce an “ownership experience” in customers.
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Apple is not only the most profitable company in the technology industry, but also a model for high profits in the retail industry. In the statistical analysis of the retail industry analysis company RetailSails, the Apple’s Retail Store has become the most profitable per square foot retail store. Apple store sales over $ 6,000 per square foot, 17 times...阅读全文
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NBC Miami is reporting that plans to expand the too-small Apple store in Miami Beach are being blocked, thanks to preservationists who argue that the demolition needed to build a new glass-enclosed cube design store would hurt its historic roots.
Apple submitted its demolition proposal in June because it is simply running out of space at its current store. Ho...阅读全文
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Yesterday, Apple revealed that the Mac App Store had reached 100 million downloads in less than a year. Those numbers were good, but still lag behind the iOS App Store, which hit the 100 million mark in 3 months.
Shortly after Apple released the numbers, it confirmed to The Loop’s Jim Dalrymplethat the numbers were unique downloads, meaning that they did not ...阅读全文
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New York City just got a stunning new tourist attraction. Apple’s largest-ever retail venue opened on Friday at the historic Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, as swarms of fans camped out for hours to be among the first to enter.
Hundreds of fans – some of which joined the line at the crack of dawn – were finally greeted by a sea of Apple employees clad in...阅读全文
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While information about Apple’s new iOS app and retail plans have leaked out in various forms over the past few weeks, we now have the whole story thanks to a trusted source. On Thursday, Apple’s new retail store app for iOS will launch, and it will bring two major features with it. First, it will enable online ordering with retail store pick up. This has alr...阅读全文
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Apple is planning several enhancements to its online and retail stores to make shopping easier for the millions of customers they are going to serve over the holidays. The most important among the changes will be the ability for customers buying accessories at the company’s retail stores to pay for them using their own iOS devices, according to a report by Ma...阅读全文
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Thanks to Nate Bolt, we know what happens when you walk into an Apple store with its “Apple Store” app running.
That is cool, and it looks like the app knows exactly what store you’ve walked into, what workshops are coming up, lets you ask for help, tells you how many people are in line ahead of you, and gives you the opportunity to set up a Genius appointm...阅读全文
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Construction to install the new Apple Store in Grand Terminal Station has begun, we can report. The east balcony of New York City’s most heavily trafficked transport hub has been festooned in scaffolding and work is beginning. Not many details are available as it is obviously in the early stages but it’s nice to see it getting underway.
Apple paid the current...阅读全文
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In an ongoing battle against trademark infringement, Applehas filed a lawsuit against two sellers of knockoff Apple accessories based in the New York City neighborhood of Flushing, Queens, according to documents unsealed Thursday in Brooklyn federal court.
The defendants — Apple Story and Fun Zone, both owned by New York resident Janie Po Chiang — are accused ...阅读全文