Apple planning May event to celebrate its 10-year retail anniversary
Get your glad rags out, because it looks like Apple's preparing to celebrate the 10th birthday of its first retail stores at the end of next month.
Employees have been told they can't request any vacation time in late May, possibly because Apple's planning some sort of event to mark the anniversary. The first Apple Retail Stores launched on May 19, 2001 in McLean, Virginia's Tyson's Corner Mall and at the Galleria in Glendale, California. The Glendale store has even achieved cult status now with the store number designation 001.
It is possible that the holiday blackout is due to a new product launch; new Sandy Bridge iMacs are due, and there's always the iPhone 5. However, the iMac doesn't seem special enough to stop all staff going on holiday, and the iPhone 5 now seems more likely for September. The most recent holiday blackouts were for the Verizon iPhone 4 and the iPad 2.
If Apple is planning a birthday party for its retail stores, will you be going along? How do you think Apple should mark the anniversary? Let us know in the comments.
(Edited to fix store name.)
Share
Categories
Get your glad rags out, because it looks like Apple's preparing to celebrate the 10th birthday of its first retail stores at the end...
Add a Comment
People that work at Apple stores are just glorified store clerks. Everyone acts like they are hipsters and are cool when in fact you are on the bottom rung of the corporate ladder. While you make your ten bucks an hour Steve Jobs and the rest of the company are raking in hundreds of millions of dollars. Go forth and sell Applebots!
May 16 2011 at 8:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMy experiences at the Apple Stores have been extremely disappointing! Their primary objectives are to sell new Products and Accessories. Solving Customer problems is (in my experiences), not at all their primary objective! As a Corporate Customer, I was recently told by two Apple Staff members on the Floor that they could not assist me in resolving technical problems with my iPhone. My response of utter disappointment with their support to Corporte Customers was.. "You certainly have the option to take your Company's Business to a different Phone company; that's Your choose!". It appears that APPLE assumes (aggorantly) that their Products are: 1) Superior too all others in the Marketplace; and 2) Their existing Customers have few if any choices... and APPLE is in the Business of making Money - Period!
Jack L. Dunham
Chairman of the Board
Pacific Precision Products
With all due respect, if you're in a retail establishment looking for assistance, you're no longer a corporate customer, you're a retail customer. The experience you receive will be a retail experience, similar in many ways to the experience you might receive at The Gap or Starbucks. As a corporate customer, if that's really the case, I urge you to contact Apple Business Relations, have them assign a Technical Accounts Manager to your organization, and work through those channels. I can guarantee the typical "Specialist" or sales person at the Apple Store don't give a hoot how much money your company spends on Apple hardware in a given fiscal year - they aren't the techs, and they can't help with technical issues. There are technicians, and for better or for worse, they're the ones to help with technical issues.
May 18 2011 at 1:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyJust an excuse for me to get to London ya ill come!
April 28 2011 at 6:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhoa, I never realized that the Tyson's Apple Store was the original store, considering I /live/ in the area.
April 21 2011 at 5:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI doubt it, but let's hope for an iPhone 5.
April 21 2011 at 5:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI've got a malfunction-happy iPhone 3G, so if Apple wishes to make the iPhone 5 available in, say, May, I'd be one happy little duck.
BJ
I'm a stone's throw from the Tyson's Corner store, so if there's some kind of party, I might as well make an appearance.
April 21 2011 at 10:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI shop at the Tyson's Mall all the time. I didn't know that was one of the first stores. Pretty cool.
April 21 2011 at 10:55 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI think they should celebrate by handing out a bunch of free stuff
April 21 2011 at 9:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAnd now we're waiting for first Apple Store in Poland...
April 21 2011 at 8:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHow are the micro-soft (sic) stores doing?
April 21 2011 at 8:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDeals of the Day
more deals- Apple iMac Core i7 Quad 3.4GHz 27" w/ 24GB RAM, 2TB HDD for $2,677 + $29 s&h
- Used Apple Magic Mouse for $36 + $4 s&h
- Apple TV Media Receiver for $90 + free shipping
- 9-Piece iPhone Bundle, includes 1,900mAh battery for $8 + free shipping
- Skullcandy Riot Earbud Headphones for $10 + free shipping
- Apple Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard for $40 + $8 s&h
Software Updates
more updatesFeatured Stories
more stories
Popular Stories
TUAW (or The Unofficial Apple Weblog) is a website devoted to tips, reviews, news, analysis and opinion on everything Apple.
20 Comments