The Covent Garden (London) store will hold its grand opening on Saturday, August 7th at 10 a.m., revealing the largest and most expensive store in Apple’s chain, and arguably the chain’s most amazing interior. The store occupies an 1870s...

Tips about an Apple store along Walnut Street in downtown Philadelphia (Penn.) first surfaced in 2004. But perhaps like the company’s real estate team, the tipsters could never pinpoint an exact location until mid-2009. Now one of the longest-r...

A passerby’s photograph of the future Covent Garden (London) store shows that Apple has retained the original brick of the interior, but added stone to the floor beneath the usual wood display tables. The peek looks straight through the constru...

Apple’s retail stores across the United States have ramped up staffing for today and the weekend, anticipating a flood of people asking for iPhone 4 case refunds. Many employees will reportedly work 12-hours shifts to provide coverage, overtime...

Apple’s retail stores posted record revenues and profits during the third quarter of 2010, following the company’s overall record revenues of $15.7 billion and profit of $3.25 billion. The stores also hosted a record 60.9 million visitors...

With Apple opening one-half of its new retail stores in locations outside the United States this year, it’s rare for two stores to open in the U.S. in one weekend. Yet that’s what will happen Saturday when the Fayette Mall (Lexington, Ken...

Workers are completing the final steps of preparation for the future Covent Garden (London) store, including the delivery of the wood product display tables. By all accounts, the store is scheduled for a July 31st grand opening and will be among the...

In perhaps a preview of the company’s financials to be announced next week, Steve Jobs revealed during today’s press conference on the iPhone 4 antenna issue that the retail stores hosted over 60 million visitors during the most recent q...

Faced with an every-increasing number of customers at its retail store Genius Bars, and in the face of on-going employee dissatisfaction about heavy workloads, tipsters say Apple will revise its operations to improve product repair service. Some of...

After nine years, Apple’s retail operation has changed considerably, including the original four job positions, which have changed, morphed, split and merged since 2001. Several job positions have also come and gone since 2001. Now, a new graph...

Scores of Apple enthusiasts have assembled in Shanghai (China) for Saturday morning’s grand opening of the Pudong retail store, and they’ve been allowed to use nearby empty space in the complex for protection against 80-degree heat and th...

The iPhone 4 debut was Apple’s most successful retail store product launch ever, and now the company is rewarding the employees who worked on the launch day for their efforts. The company wasn’t able to give store employees a free iPhone...

The first rumors of an Apple store in Greenville (SC) surfaced in 2007, but the company reportedly switched plans in 2008 with the economic slowdown in 2008. Now, finally, a retail store will open this Saturday at the Haywood Mall to serve the northw...

In a dramatic unveiling, on Wednesday workers removed the red plastic curtain covering the unique cylindrical glass tower sitting over the future Pudong (Shanghai) retail store, revealing a spiral glass staircase to an underground retail space that i...

For a brief time, the black construction barricade hiding the future Walnut Street (Philadelphia) store was partially removed, and it became clear the store will both retain historic features and incorporate Apple’s modern storefront design. Se...