Suburban Square Apple store grand opening this Saturday

Suburban square does suck and that area has a lot of traffic as it is-- try and find parking at trader joe's and you have to fight soccer moms in SUVs. University city would have been ideal.... :-(
Oh well

Hey! I was there, got my t-shirt today. Waiting in the sun was hot, but worth it. The store is HUGE! I didn't get to walk around unfortunately. Too crowded for a stroller!

I already have my sweet dual processor G5 and my 20gig iPod. Got the G5 through Penn Comp. Connection's website at apple.com. Husband works at Penn, so we scored a discount. Can't beat that. Doubt I'll be buying much at the apple store but it was fulfilling to be with my people.

I posted on my own blog about the eBay sales of the t-shirts! One is already up and starting bid is 5.99!

there is the computer connection at the penn bookstore to service university city. They dont have EVERYTHING an apples store might, but they also have lots of other extra stuff that an apples store wouldnt carry as well.

A center city AND a university city location would be smart.
Preferably near city hall or independence mall.
Philadelphia is a big city and can support a lot of stores.

Eric, I'm 32 but I'll kick your ass anyway. ; )

Hey all,
Ima try to make it out there too. The Dad Vail Regatta is this Saturday too though, so I dunno. I just wanted to make the observation in response to an earlier comment about pulling in Penn kids to the SSq. store, most of (read: almost all) of the Penn kids, alumni, faculty, and anyone else remotely associated with Penn tend to shop at Penn Computer Connection. This isnt to say that business wont be swapped back and forth. In fact I wouldnt be surprised if, when someone calls the SSq. peeps from the University City area and asks about buying something they didnt recommend checking to see if PCC has it first. There are some things that PCC cant handle (certain repairs, et al) and Im sure they'll reciprocate. It'll be nice to tell folks that they dont have to go all the way out to the mall of death...(KofP).

I've run into our regions Mac rep at PCC a couple of times, and hes a really nice chap.

Oh, I'll probably have a red and blue RELoad bag on.

Cheers all.

I appreciate the insight Bill. I haven't been to the KoP location and haven't seen the construction of the new store so I wasn't aware of the size differences.

Also, I went to college over in NJ and the campus bookstore had a whole corner of the store devoted to Mac hardware/software available with educational discounts. I was under the impression that most colleges had something like that available right on campus, but I'm only going by what I experienced (and that was several years ago). If Apple relies more heavily now on it's retail stores to serve the local schools then this location makes a lot more sense.

dude haverford sucks marple newtown is amazing...i will be there...ill be wearing the eagles shirt and im 14 so u can fight me there

Rav,

If you've been to KofP and other Apple retail stores, they are constantly asking what your Zip Code is. Apple puts all this info in a demographic survey (and probably a map) database to see where the customers are coming from. Given that the KofP is way too small to handle the customer base, Apple needed to expand. So the question came down to where?

Villanova, St. Joe's, Bryn Mawr, Haverford and the other colleges along with the chance to have the affluent Main Line at your doorstep makes Suburban Square extremely logical. The adjacent R5 Septa (or 105 bus) stop brings in the Drexel, U of P, Temple and LaSalle crowd. And Suburban Square, along with Ardmore, is undergoing a renaissance of sorts. The stores are more upscale which is in keeping with Apple's plan.

So wait to see what the crowds will be once the hoopla dies down. The only limiting factor will be the parking lot. And who says once that section of Suburban Square is done, there won't be a multi-level municipal parking lot? Not me. Since the store is at least 2-3 times the size of KofP, it should be a bit easier to get service.

And don't count out a center city store. Steve has a tendency to be patient about the locale. If his team has their eye on a certain site, they'll wait until the surrounding stores are in their style/demographic levels and then lease what they want.

Bill

For a while I was hoping they'd put one where the old Borders used to be on Walnut, but now hopes have been dashed. Darn it.

ya do you have any idea when you re gonna go, or just showing up there, becuase i wanna try and run into you if u can