Not one but three new Apple stores

I made a pact with god that I would never work in that blight on the landscape that is soon to be known as The Natick Collection. However, as I was unaware there would be an Apple store there, I now find myself applying for a job in that very place...

Natick is very far from "Western Mass."

The Natick store isn't in western Mass, per se, though it's about as far west (20 miles) as many Bostonians like to travel.
The Holyoke Mall store that opened this summer is the long-anticipated western Mass store.

#4, That's the way most Apple Stores are, even in many major cities. Take Los Angeles for example. Their flagship store is The Grove, but after going in there, it's really not that impressive. The only difference is that they have a staircase in the middle of the store. It's just not really large at all..nor does it have a real presence at its location anymore than the other stores there.

As for me, I live in Houston, and all of our Apple Stores (even though I'm grateful for the five in the area), are pretty small and generic for Apple Store standards.

The one in San Antonio is better than any of ours over here actually...

Yay for more California Apple Stores!

ONLINE APPLE STORE IS DOWN...

I am getting goosebumps!!!!

Still waiting for a Vancouver, BC Apple Store. *sigh*
Ontario has about four or five... why no love for the west coast?

When is that flagship store in Boston coming? I live & work in the Boston area 3 months a year and was highly disappointed to find the current Boston store is a generic mall store no better than the ones in the suburbs.

I could use some AppleStores in Europe... Jobs has ten stores in UK, and one in Italy, and that's all!
The nearest one is in UK... about 1 000 miles from Lisbon, Portugal... in straigth line...

" I'd bet visiting every Apple Store would be a much more fun (albeit more expensive) trip. How come no one's done that yet?"

Because, except for the flagship stores, every Apple store is pretty much the exact same and in pretty much the same kind of malls. At least Starbucks stores have some kind of individual (as individual as the corporation lets them) "identity" or "feel".