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Greensboro store opening draws cheering crowds

by Michael Rose Feb 22nd 2009 at 1:15PM

apple store greensboro openingAfter extended delays and much anticipation, the Greensboro, NC Apple Store at Friendly Center finally opened its doors yesterday to paying customers.

The photo here is courtesy of the Iconfactory's Talos Tsui, who appears momentarily in this local news coverage from prior to the store open; unfortunately, his colleague Gedeon Maheux is misidentified as "Corey Marion" in the clip. Whoops! Perhaps that lingering closeup on the Twitterrific icon in the store window will help soothe the pain.

You can check out all the Greensboro excitement from those who were there:
The store's official page, with event schedule and directions, is at Apple's retail site. See Talos' video from inside the store in the second half of the post.

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Jared Childress

Not to mention that GSO is the site of one of the most important Revolutionary War battles and also the start of the civil rights movement. And is also the home of the ACC. Naaa, nobody cares.

February 23 2009 at 2:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
CarolinaNMyMind

It's now up to about 1.6 million, home to several fortune 500 companies, and the headquarters for many high technology companies, like RFMD and HondaJet. Backwater town indeed.

February 23 2009 at 10:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nick F

Where TF is Greensboro, and does 99.999% of the rest of the world really give a hoot? Sorry but does a store opening in some backwater town most of us have never heard of really merit a story in a blog that's meant to be about Apple matters of interest to most people? You've got to be a seriously sad fanboy to care about this, if you live anywhere but Greensboro... wherever that is!

February 23 2009 at 8:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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conturax

Flame Bait. Did you not read in the 1st sentence that Greensboro is in North Carolina? Go troll somewhere else...

FYI- in 2000, the Greensboro MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) was ranked 37th largest in the nation. Hardly a "backwater town".

Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC MSA 2000 pop. 1,251,509

www.census.gov

February 23 2009 at 9:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan S.

Once again, Ian Meyer was first in line at an Apple Store opening.

WTG Ian!

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I had considered writing something about the relationship between the Durham store and the Raleigh store, in terms of relative sales, but I don't really want a call from Cupertino for violating my NDA. Let's just say that just because Raleigh is the bigger city, it doesn't mean that they have the higher volume sales.

February 23 2009 at 8:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jared Childress

Example: I live in Clemmons (southwest of Winston-Salem, in Forsyth County), and I'll be going to Greensboro when I need to make an Apple Store run now, instead of the 85-mile trek I used to make to Charlotte.

February 23 2009 at 7:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
CarolinaNMyMind

Regardless of Greensboro's size, Apple must see promise in the Triad market to have built a store that is more than 2,000 sq. feet larger than those at Crabtree or Southpark.

February 23 2009 at 12:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
iphonerulez

I'm guessing this one of the worst turnouts of any Apple store openings. The skinny (media and analyst findings) is that nobody is buying Macs during the economic slump. Of course, the people could just show up to get free T-shirts and then leave.

February 22 2009 at 10:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Mark

I was about 30th in line to get into the store yesterday. Met some really nice folks and had a great time!

My brother in law even drove down from Lynchburg, Va for the event!

February 22 2009 at 6:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Mail Man

Mohawk dude! I was there too, right behind Mark.

I love me shirt :P

February 23 2009 at 7:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Coke Boi

where's my Little Rock, AR store doggit :'-(

February 22 2009 at 5:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jared Childress

I was in line right behind the IconFactory guys. Awesome day. :D

February 22 2009 at 1:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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