Apple Store West Edmonton: Your reports
Apple opened a new retail store in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada this weekend, number six for The Great White North. As usual, we asked any TUAW readers who may have attended to share their reports and/or pictures. So, did you go, and if you did, how was it? Let us know in the comments. Here's hoping you scored a T-shirt!If you haven't gone down to the store yet, grab your camera and add anything especially interesting to our Flickr pool!
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Apple opened a new retail store in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada this weekend, number six for The Great White North. As usual, we asked any...
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July 08 2008 at 3:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHere're some pictures I took 5 days before the store opens.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28149528@N07/sets/72157605916745789/
I dropped by the new Apple store in West Edmonton Mall today. It was pretty impressive actually. Loads of different computers and lots of stock. It was pretty busy although they had about 30 people working! I liked how you can pay for your stuff anywhere in the store and they'll email your receipt to you.
Unfortunately, I went to buy Leopard and they didn't have any single-user versions in stock! For some reason, they never received any. Odd.
Nice banter but where are the pictures! Come on people, I'm in the states right now and can't be in Edmonton for the opening. What's it look like?
July 05 2008 at 12:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI just uploaded a few pictures.
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AppleGazin
www.gadgetguy.ca
the other resellers in edmonton are awlfull..
thank god apple is there and will wipe them all away into dust
Awlfull? So they were full of simple tools for punching holes in leather. I don't know what retailer you were going to.
July 04 2008 at 8:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyypod:
Ha! Most amusing, sir or madam!
Edmonton has been crying out for a good Apple store in Edmonton for many years...
I won't name names but...
- one store has good service, but a very small product selection (pretty much everything I need isn't in stock, and the stuff that is isn't really able to be tested).
- the other store has a good product selection, but I have found their salespersons less than experts at their product lines, which is probably why they have felt they needed to post here to get customers to still visit their store...
Let's hope the other stores use this as an opportunity to improve their customer service and/or product lines... I do feel bad for them, though if this is a reason for them losing sales.
I would hope the Apple Store would just give Apple and the Mac a better name in Edmonton, most of the good Apple stores closed years ago.
Bravo. I live in Calgary and I'll probably drive up to Edmonton to go to an Apple store if I need something reasonably big. I've been to the Apple store SF and the experience is night and day with... certain other stores.
When my MBP battery died they didn't even have a replacement in stock! And they don't stock power adapters at all!
On your way to WEM be sure to stop in at WestWorld and buy an iPod case or something.
July 04 2008 at 9:40 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDa** it -- why did this happen just two months after I moved away! I lived less than 5 minutes from West Ed and would have been there CONSTANTLY.
(BTW -- nobody calls it "the" West Edmonton Mall. It's either West Ed or West Edmonton Mall.)
Kinda like how Apple doesn't call it "an" iPhone or "the" iPhone...just iPhone, as if it were a person. :P
July 04 2008 at 10:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt will be located in the West Edmonton Mall, it looks like.
It's about time. It seems like the most obvious place in Canada they would've put an Apple Store in.
Now we just need on in Saskatchewan...I can dream, right?
Yeah, right here in Saskatoon, please? Stonegate for the win? PLEASE? Neural Net (our 3rd party dealer) isn't quite cutting it. And the Campus "Apple Store" (Retailer...) is a joke.
July 06 2008 at 2:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIs it in the West Edmonton Mall, or is it a stand-alone store?
July 04 2008 at 8:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe store is located in Phase 2, not a stand-alone unit. It's a 6,000 square foot rectangular store. they said it was a new design.
I was there for the grand opening this morning and it was awesome. Probably about 1000 in line. AppleGazin'
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