Apple Store Park City, Lancaster PA: Photos from opening day

People were there from all across the country. The geniuses are behind the counter in the back, wearing the black shirts, and all hired there came back from training in California a couple of weeks before the store opened. The shirts are the same colors in all Apple Stores.

Here are some more photos of the Apple Store opening in Lancaster. It was great!
http://gallery.me.com/spmartin#100265

Too bad there still isn't a Philadelphia store...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7627025.stm

Footage of the Belfast store opening (Might only work in the UK, I'm not sure)

i went to the new park city store today around noon and let me just say, i love having such a nice, big store within 25 minutes of my home! i got a mac mini today and the guy who helped me was great. i like the new store more than the kop and towson stores... seems bigger. i was surprised to see how many of the demo imacs had spore creature creator up ;) that reminds me... let's see if spore will run on the new beastie...

I can't wait to see the store. I wanted to go today for the grand opening but ended up staying in bed a little too long. Hopefully I'll get out there tomorrow. It's closer than King of Prussia and Townson (I'm smack dab in the middle in Harrisburg).

To all who have enjoyed the Lancaster store opening thanks for taking time to check out my pics. I was so glad to share them with you. And to those who think there is a great number of employees no that some of them were hired on to help out today. Those KOP folks, for the most part moved up here or live closer to the Lancaster store...I know this to be true because I know three that moved from there. I know that some of the 'genius' also were knew to Apple or still in training therefore going to the back isn't all that bad. Besides Apple can't train everyone on every feature that is a part of the OS or products...it's sad, but we do live in the real world where most of those employees still make minimum wage or barely above. I love my Apple store, dont get me wrong...I will surly be broke before years end!

Colorado Springs also just got its first official retail store today! There's over half a million people in the metro area, so it's great to have an official store to go along with our resellers.

i went there today...didn't get the free t-shirt for the first 1,000 people but oh well...

the store is pretty big. lotta macs and ipods (obviously) there are TONS of apple geniuses there...just about 1:1 -1.5 ratio of genius to customer so the customer service there is great! though they are titled "geniuses" they still have to say "let me go back there and let me check it out for you" instead of knowing it right off the top of there heads. I even had to inform one of them that apple was releasing the new headphones with and integrated mic for the ipods...he kept thinking i was referring to the iphone but guess he didnt no.

all in all the store is great! its a lot closer to my house than king of prussia, the customer service is great and the staff is always willing to offer advice and help. you're never more than 5-7ft from an apple genius.

I was at the opening this morning and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was about 30th in line, maybe less. I thought it was fantastic to see all of the employees running around, especially the whole way down the line.

I did see some employees from the King of Prussia store, so either they're being moved to Lancaster or were just there for training the new people. I got my shirt and walked around for a bit to check out the new iPods, which are fantastic. Overall the experience was one I won't forget and I can't wait until I'm old enough to work at the store.