Apple announces Chicago, Tokyo, SF stores
updated 08:55 am EDT, Tue May 20, 2003
Apple today announced that this week marks the second anniversary of opening its first in May 2001, noting that it has since opened 57 retail stores in 26 states, hosted over 15 million visitors and sold over $650 million of products through its retail stores. More than 1,100 Apple employees work in Apple's retail stores and there is an Apple store location within 15 miles of 90 million people in the U.S. Apple also announced that during the next 12 months it plans to open 20 new Apple retail stores, including its first store in downtown Chicago, on North Michigan Avenue; its first store in San Francisco, in Union Square; and its first retail store outside of the U.S., in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district. These three locations will be high profile store formats, like Apple's popular "SoHo" retail store in New York City.
"In just two years Apple has changed the face of computer retailing for over 15 million people that have visited our 57 stores throughout the U.S.," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "During the next 12 months we will extend our reach even further by opening 20 more stores, including three new high profile stores in Chicago, San Francisco and Tokyo."
The Apple retail store on North Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago will open on Friday, June 27, 2003, the Tokyo store will open in early 2004 and the San Francisco store will open in spring 2004. Apple recently opened its first retail stores in Honolulu, Seattle and Sacramento, California.










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05/20, 09:06am reply
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Honk
05/20, 09:06am reply
Apple will soon have an end cap in my supermarket
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Chicago AppleStore
05/20, 09:19am reply
It's wierd, I was in Chicago in summer 2001 and visited the old Gap store which was rumoured even back then to be converted into an AppleStore. There was an Apple sticker on the front glass doors and all the other windows were blocked out, with obvious work going on inside. I popped in a letter asking whoever was in charge to let me know when they think the store would be finished, but not surprisingly didnt get any response. I went by that location a few weeks later and the Apple stickers were removed.
They've been holding the lease on this prime retail location on Michigan Ave. for over 2 years and still havent opened it yet. Must be costing an absolute fortune!
- will probably be worth the wait though!
:)
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Aiiiiiighh
05/20, 10:01am reply
Apple opens up stores while gateway closes stores.
Music to my ears.
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DEAR CHICAGO STORE PERSON
05/20, 10:18am reply
Please get a life...
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finally
05/20, 10:19am reply
i am surprised that it took this long to get a store into SF... we are a hop skip and a jump to Infinity Loop, and i took 2 yrs.
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90 million/15 miles
05/20, 10:43am reply
The other 160 million eagerly awaits . . .
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does tokyo
05/20, 10:51am reply
signal a new focus on international markets? are some of those 20 stores going to be in Paris, London etc? are they going to expand into Japan like they did here before opening up more stores elsewhere? it seems as if the stores become more profitable the more of them there are... you know, economies of scale, etc...
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Portland, OR Store?
05/20, 10:54am reply
What happened to the rumored Pioneer Place Store in Portland?
There was a listing for job openings then the nothing.
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Re: Chicago
05/20, 10:58am reply
The building you visited two years ago has since been demolished. The reason it has taken two years is they have been building a new building.
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