Apple Stores Demonstrate That Retail Still Lives 416
WheezyJoe writes "Maybe OS X Leopard has its problems, but the New York Times seems to think Apple has designed the ideal techie retail store. A policy that encourages lingering, with dozens of fully functioning computers, iPods and iPhones for visitors to try, even for hours on end (one patron wrote a manuscript entirely at the store) has 'given some stores, especially those in urban neighborhoods, the feel of a community center ... Meanwhile, the Sony flagship store on West 56th Street, a few blocks from Apple's Fifth Avenue store, has the hush of a mausoleum. And being inside the long and narrow blue-toned Nokia store on 57th Street feels a bit like being inside an aquarium. The high-end Samsung Experience showroom, its nuevo tech music on full blast one recent morning, was nearly empty.'"
well, maybe (Score:5, Funny)
These people have never been to a Fry's. If you've never been to one, picture this: they sell porn and energy drinks within 20 feet of each other.
Not a techie store (Score:5, Funny)
My local Big W store, on the other hand, has these self service checkouts. You scan the products yourself and put them on some kind of weight verification thing, then spend five or 10 minutes doing a credit card transaction. While my wife was trying to get that to work I took a look at another terminal where the POS application had apparently crashed, leaving an interesting windows desktop with a working touch screen mouse. The staff didn't appreciate my attempted repair though, in fact there were so many people keeping an eye on that broken terminal they could have run a whole line of manual checkouts.
Anyway if a real apple store opens here in Melbourne I might take a look but I can't see myself buying anything there.
The Rainbow Connection (Score:5, Funny)
It's true. It's a great place to hang out. I know lots of guys that met their boyfriends at the Apple Store.
Re:well, maybe (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nokia store on 57th Street feels like aquarium (Score:5, Funny)
Re:well, maybe (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The Rainbow Connection (Score:4, Funny)
Re:You can smell the pomposity (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Sir,
I wish to complain on the stronglest possible terms about the previous entry about aliens wearing womens' clothes. Some of my best friends are aliens, and only a FEW of them are transvestites.
Yours faithfully,
Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong, Mrs.
P.S. Lingerie is actually VERY comfortable.
loiterers (Score:5, Funny)
Isobella Jade was down on her luck, living on a friend's couch and struggling to make it as a fashion model when she had the idea of writing a book...
Ms. Jade spent hours at a stretch standing in a discreet corner of the store, typing. Within a few months, she had written nearly 300 pages.
Hmmm, I wonder how many guys struggling to make it as say, I dunno... a farmer, they let use their computers everyday for months?
the smell (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The Rainbow Connection (Score:5, Funny)
*plots*
Re:well, maybe (Score:5, Funny)
And the employees still can't tell you where either is.
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Franklin
Re:Apples and pears? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Apples and pears? (Score:4, Funny)
You might consider it a non sequitur... but then you'd also be wrong.
Re:Not a techie store (Score:1, Funny)
Re:well, maybe (Score:4, Funny)
They have no trouble keeping items in stock that no-one buys, but items that are in high demand are often gone? Damn you, laws of physics!
Re:loiterers (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The Rainbow Connection (Score:2, Funny)
Re:well, maybe (Score:3, Funny)
ITYM "ironic."
Re:Apples and pears? (Score:5, Funny)
You must be new here.