Apple retail job postings for Jackson, MS

A reason to live in Mississippi appears.

Dear Apple (if you read this and I bet you do!):

Store needed somewhere between Short Pump and MacArthur Center, probably Newport News or Williamsburg.

MAN!!!! I just got home tonight from a mission trip to Pascagula, and on the way home we stayed the night in Jackson and went to the mall and stuff. I had called my dad to check and see if there was an Apple Store there, and now I find out there's gonna be one opening! Man. If only it would've opened a month earlier........ I wanted to go to an Apple Store so bad. Good luck Mississippi on your first Apple Store!

Nice, "Eagle-eyed Gary" is over a week late. I submitted this story to TUAW over a week ago, then when I got no response from them I submitted to digg and got a whole 2 DIGGS! WooHoo! Here's the digg article with a link to the story in Clarion Ledger that mentioned the job postings, http://digg.com/apple/Apple_opening_first_store_in_Jackson_Mississippi

Just so you guys know, we *do* have an Apple retailer in the Jackson area already: http://www.userfriendlyjackson.com/

It's not an Apple Store, but it's certainly an Apple store. I'm thrilled that we may get the real deal, I just hope that it doesn't kill off business for User Friendly. They're nice folks.

Oh, and according to the employees at both Best Buy locations, they'll be getting Apple stuff aaaaaaany time now. They've been saying that for a couple of months, but as yet, all you can find there are Apple keyboards and mice.

Finally, an Apple store in MS! Too bad it's not down on the coast: Apple needs to make a store on the Mississippi or Alabama coastline. The new Baton Rouge, LA store is a little too far away.

From what I've heard from a local (I live closer to Memphis than Jackson), the Apple store is supposed to be coming to the new Renaissance community/shopping villa.

http://www.renaissanceatcolonypark.com/

I think california needs more stores.

I have family in Ridgeland, MS, and this has been rumored for months. A huge high-end shopping complex and outdoor mall has been in development for a few years out in Ridgeland, and the Apple store is likely to be located there. Hooray! MS may finally be getting its first Apple Store! Next, we need one in Tupelo, MS! A store in Tupelo would do very well as it's less than an hour away from the two largest universities in the state: Ole Miss & Missisippi State and it's also a very populated business area of Northeast Mississippi.

@ neodymium Hey, the Baton Rouge, LA store was listed here among many others so what's the big deal? I have friends in Jackson, MS that are not Mac users yet but are interested and that's a huge help! I can tell them to hang in there so they can check 'em out w/o driving to another one far from home or a reseller. ;-)
@ cylonite I would assume that there are 38 Apple Stores in the state of California alone.
Personally, I think there should be at the very least one good sized Apple Store in every major city in the US and worldwide. To make that deal sweeter there should be one flagship store in every State of the US possibly in it's capital city or the largest metro area there. What about Mini Stores? They could easily fill out the rest of the nation since they're located in shopping malls where the general population nearby would be more than adequate to support it.
If Apple plans on using some of that cash on hand I'd recommend that they use it to expand their retail presence .

Man, I sent you guys this story almost three weeks ago..