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Five New Apple Retail Stores Opening Around the World

Friday August 12, 2011 11:02 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
As we reported, Apple is opening 5 new retail stores on Saturday. The new stores include two U.S. locations and three international ones. We received some early photos from some of the locations:

Murray, Utah (Thanks Eric)


Southland in Australia (Thanks Andrew)

Due to the time zone differences, the Australian store has already launched to a packed crowd.

Italy's I GIGLI shopping center is actually tweeting live Apple Store opening photos already, as its early Saturday morning in that location at the time of publication:




The remaining locations are in Canada and the U.S. and will start their openings over the next 12 hours.
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flottenheimer
1 day ago at 11:38 pm
I'll repeat this endlessly:

Dear Apple,

Please open your first Apple Store in Denmark (Copenhagen).
Why you're not here already simply baffles me. We're a high-income
Apple lovin' place.
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hamshi
1 day ago at 11:17 pm
Cheltenham is not the store guys, its Southland in Melbourne

EDIT: The suburb is Cheltenham but the store is named Southland
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Stang
1 day ago at 11:18 pm

Thank God there's another store in Utah.


I think you mean "Thank Joseph Smith there's another store in Utah."

Get it? #mormonjoke
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revnja
1 day ago at 11:06 pm
Twelve hours until our Anchorage store opens! It's about time we got an Apple Store...
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AnthonyHarris
9 hours ago at 05:33 pm

I don't think Microsoft would be allowed.

Apple probably have copywrited their stores like their tablets.

A rectangular shaped building with an entrance on the front where people can walk in to purchase items inside.

No one else it allowed to do this ;)


Voting this down? lol... Come on now, seriously... Its hilarious.:apple::apple:
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AppleInLVX
20 hours ago at 07:23 am
I've been an Apple fanboy for a few years now, but I didn't know until today just what that was. The Conestoga Apple store in Waterloo opened and it felt like a sporting event, or concert or something. People cheering, a countdown to the doors opening, a lineup, more than a thousand people with their iDevices out. I was speechless. :apple:
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DrJohnnyN
20 hours ago at 07:08 am


You have intimidate your competitors every now and again.


Maybe Apple should build a store right across the street from ExxonMobil's HQ in Irving, Texas.
:p
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mklnz
22 hours ago at 04:57 am
We need an Apple Store in New Zealand :(

and no.. Australia is not New Zealand :)
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moveteam
22 hours ago at 04:50 am

..or (hopefully and) Oslo. ;)

:D Yep an Apple Store in each Scandinavian capital.
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moveteam
23 hours ago at 03:49 am

The sleek aluminum styling of the current Apple line totally fits with classic Scandinavian minimalist styling.

An Apple Store on one of the walking streets in central Copenhagen would be great. The reason why such an obvious placement isn't happening is a long term, exclusive distribution agreement made in the 80s with the early Apple.

I think it is Tech Data but I'm not sure here. I was told the distribution agreement is schedule to expire in 2015. Then you will see an Apple store.

Source?

There is not a single Apple Store in Scandinavia - a region with 25 million inhabitants.

Copenhagen or (hopefully and) Stockholm would be obvious place for a beautiful store.
Magasin du Nord in CPH, right in a front of a metro station. Would be fantastic:

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