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02/10/2004, 1:00pm, EST

Tuesday, February 10th

New Apple store sighted in Bethesda, MD

A MacNN reader discovered today that a new Apple Store is under construction in the Westfield Shoppingtown Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. Apple has posted job openings on its website for the Bethesda store. The store is expected to open in the next 2-3 months, according to the mall's front office.


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02/10, 1:21pm, EST
Apple is just RIPE to gain 10-15 new customers
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02/10, 2:07pm, EST
this store is just RIPE to be tranquilized by 10-15 hunter's darts.
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dont you have jobs?
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02/10, 2:45pm, EST
theres something about the phrase 'shoppingtown' that makes me want to smack a marketing person.

Its a MALL.
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02/10, 2:48pm, EST
hahahahaha! i live near this ummm... MALL and have always questioned that!! I refuse to be a shoppingtownrat! ;)
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02/10, 6:45pm, EST
It's actually a company that owns a bunch of malls. There's a Westfield Shoppingtown in downtown Chicago, and the famous mall Old Orchard is now Westfield Shoppingtown Old Orchard. Stupid, really. Like people really care.
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02/11, 10:08am, EST
Around here it is known simply as Montgomery Mall and is actually one of the more high-end malls (as far as retailers) in the Washington D.C. area with lots of foot traffic. Montgomery County, MD is one of the more affluent counties in the U.S. so there should be lots of people willing to spend money. I was always of the belief that this was a prime location for an Apple store and my bet is that it will do just as well if not better than the two previously opened stores in the D.C. area.
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02/11, 12:27pm, EST
Montgomery Mall is ghetto.

I wish Apple could get some space in Georgetown, on M St if possible. That Benetton spot would be great. Who shops at Benetton anyway? :)

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02/13, 10:10am, EST
Not sure what you classify as "ghetto" but an Apple store in Georgetown is wrong for many reasons:

Three that immediately come to mind :

1. Parking is horrendous. Who would want to lug their 20-inch iMac box down M street to put in their car.

2. All of the foot traffic is pedestrian. So when it rains, watch your sales go down the drain.

3. Think Gateway. They proved that the standalone strip mall concept does not work. Even though Georgetown is not a strip mall, people are not going to make a special trip down there to buy a computer

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