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New Apple Store: An Example of Evolving Retail?

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday May 24 2016, @03:47PM   
from the it's-not-just-a-phone-anymore dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

A new kind of Apple Store is opening on Saturday.

Across the street from the iconic San Francisco store, Apple is opening a new flagship aimed at being more than just a store. The trademark 42-foot glass doors will open to a kind of Apple-designed public forum, with a conference room, advice for small businesses, concerts, and a layout that blurs the line between inside and outside.

"This is not just a store," Angela Ahrendts, Apple's senior vice president of retail and online stores, said in a Thursday press release. "We want people to say, 'Hey, meet me at Apple.... Did you see what's going on at Apple?"

Apple is not the first business to engaged in an aesthetic revamp for physical store locations. More and more large companies have taken a designer's eye to rebuilding or in some cases building stores to for greater aesthetics, layout, and convenience.

What would you do if you had $100 billion in cash sitting in the bank?

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• Re:financial calculations pls? Re:financial calculations pls? (Score: 2) by Alfred on Tuesday May 24 2016, @05:26PM

  by Alfred (4006) on Tuesday May 24 2016, @05:26PM (#350408) Journal

  At some point money is just a number in a bit stream. Money is just a metricin a limited system. A system that can be completely controlled an manipulated. I am sure that various entities have manipulated the amount and distribution of money to some plan or advantage. If you play ball (or sub) with the right interests then you can see your cell in the spreadsheet prosper. Apple and Microsoft didn't become huge because the products sell themselves, they had "help."
  
  Gadgets are generally a stupid tax on the income of wage earners. There are darn few who can really justify their gadgets, that they would make so much less money without them. That kid with their $2000 facebook machine will never see the payback. In this way gadgets, like the lottery, are a tax on the stupid. (I am not critical of people spending their disposable income as they wish which may include time wasters and gadgets.)
  
  So to answer your inquiry: very fishy or b0rked crazy? yes and yes.

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• Re:financial calculations pls? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2016, @02:03PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2016, @02:03PM (#350793)

  thank you for reply and being serious :)

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