New UK Retail Store opens this Saturday
Hear ye, hear ye Britons! If you were wondering when the much-delayed Midsummer Place, Milton Keynes retail store was opening, you can wonder no more, for this Saturday the store is throwing open its doors for the first time. ifoAppleStore (the site in the know about all things Apple Retail) points to 'mis-sized glass' causing the store's opening to slip well past the intended pre-Christmas opening. As with all Apple Store openings, there's a "Digital Lifestyle Collection" of a black MacBook and silver iPod nano to be won, with the first thousand people through the door nabbing a free T-shirt.
The store opens at 9.30am this Saturday, 1st March. If you're attending, do send us your reports (and maybe watch for a TUAW operative amongst the
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Blaktornado said 4:20PM on 2-26-2008
Awesome :D I don't think I can go myself but hey, good news on Apple's and the people of Milton Keyne's behalf :D
Come on Apple, one in Lincolnshire next, please xD
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zx said 4:49PM on 2-26-2008
one more!
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Matt said 4:54PM on 2-26-2008
We're getting one in Cambridge sometime later this year. But what's with Apple putting five in London? We don't all live there!
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Ed said 5:29PM on 2-26-2008
Well, technically only two are in London, according to http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/. I'd not really say Brent Cross was London either, well, it should be anexed...
ron said 5:07PM on 2-26-2008
how many are they in the UK?
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Ed said 5:28PM on 2-26-2008
14
http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/
Alex Blewitt said 5:12PM on 2-26-2008
Last time I went there, there were black wooden barriers over the front of the store. Peeking through a hole showed that the stairs were in place (it'll be a two-floor show) although not with the customary glass staircase; owing to space limitations, the stairs are at the back of the store and made out of wood.
At least the concrete cows are in attendance :-)
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Eideard said 5:47PM on 2-26-2008
Will Paul Ince be there?
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Danny said 5:43PM on 2-26-2008
FAO fellow scousers: the Liverpool branch opens some time in May, when the Liverpool One centre launches.
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John Robinson said 6:29PM on 2-26-2008
I peeped the other day when the double the whole entrance was left open (9.00am) and the workmen had gone for their tea!
I believe the stairs, though narrow, are in fact glass. They might have looked like wood as they still had the protective wrapping on. Am hoping to go on Saturday as I live in MK - would be rude not to!
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Nic said 6:30PM on 2-26-2008
I was so pleased for a microsecond there, I thought the Reading one had finally materialised. Alas, I have been disappointed once again.
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Alexis said 6:18AM on 2-27-2008
I live in MK and i know ill be there for sure... just let me know where i should send the pics! :P
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