Retail store openings, PA preview
updated 10:10 am EDT, Fri October 5, 2001
Apple's Palo Alto retail store is set to open tomorrow, as noted previously by MacNN. It is Apple's first street-front store, while most others are located in high-traffic malls, according to an Interactive Week article that also notes the Apple store is built around "solution bays and also has an area for kids with iMacs set on a tabletop at kids' height and flanked by shelves of educational and games software. The articles also notes that an average of 7,100 people visit its stores around the country. Update: The Albany store is expected to open on October 13th. [updated]



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Managing that store is (possibly) going to be one of the hardest jobs in retail. It's whithin Cycleing distance of Jobs' house. You just know he's going to be 'checking up on the way past' at leat once a week.