Apple Stores

The latest Apple store opens on Saturday, and the company has shown off a few photos ahead of time. It has the same curved frontage we’ve seen in a couple of earlier mall stores.

Apple has previously aimed for a relatively seamless transition between the exterior and interior of these stores, and the latest example in Hefei, China, continues this trend …

New Apple Store openings aren’t as frequent as they used to be, but Apple continues to launch its retail locations both in the US and around the globe. Here are the locations planned for opening this year in the US, and a peek into Apple’s plans abroad too.

A new Apple Store is opening at Miami Worldcenter this month, and Apple has shared wallpaper downloads to celebrate the occasion. Here are the details.

Apple always offers an extended return window for products purchased during the holiday season. But that period is just about to end, making now your last chance to get in any last-minute returns.

As holiday shopping continues, Apple is running a fun promotion at Apple Stores this weekend.

At select stores in San Francisco, Miami, Los Angeles, and New York City, live artists will be available to personalize gift bags for Apple shoppers…

There’s a new Apple Store opening later this month in Madrid, and Apple has shared a fun new wallpaper for iPhone, iPad, and Mac that you can download to mark the occasion.

The latest Apple Store opened today in Belfast, Northern Ireland – with local schoolchildren getting access to it ahead of the opening.

The location of the store is carefully described as being “on the island of Ireland” rather than “in Ireland” …

Apple last month reached agreement with employees at the first Apple Store to unionize, and has now done the same, with a store in Oklahoma City.

The three-year contract covers much of the same ground as the contract in Maryland, though with higher pay rises agreed …

Apple customers in Sweden are about to have one less option for buying and servicing Apple products. Apple Väla Centrum, one of only three Apple Stores in the country, will be closing permanently on July 13.

We got a partial look at the outside of the Apple Store TRX in Kuala Lumpur a few weeks ago, and the tiered pyramid design looked pretty spectacular.

Apple has now shared photos of the inside of the store, ahead of Saturday’s opening, and it doesn’t disappoint …

The Apple Store TRX, the company’s first ever retail store in Malaysia, has been one of the worst-kept secrets in Kuala Lumpur – but is now finally official.

Apple has revealed that the store opens at 10am on June 22, and is offering wallpaper to celebrate the funky design …

It seems like there’s a LEGO set for everything these days, as the popularity of LEGO continues to cross generational divides. There are LEGO sets for all kinds of popular movies, video games, and iconic locations, but if you’re looking for an Apple-themed LEGO set, you’re out of luck.

LEGO user @legotruman hopes to change that, as they have collaborated with @2A2A to create a LEGO Apple Store. And it’s a thing of beauty.

Apple has recently started in-store testing of a Presto system, which can provide software updates to iPhone stock in Apple Stores without even opening the boxes.

We now have more details about how Presto works, and it’s even more sophisticated than it first appeared …

Tim Cook is in China, attending the opening of the beautiful new Jing’an Apple Store in Shanghai, and meeting with Apple suppliers, developers, and more.

Cook shared photos of his visit on Chinese social media site Weibo, thanking the new store staff and customers for a memorable visit …

Apple has shared photos of the latest Apple Store, ahead of this week’s opening in Shanghai, China.

The photos reveal a curved glass facade, with stairs leading down into a beautiful circular design in the main display area in the basement of the store …

Apple has teased the opening of a new retail store in China, Apple Jing’an. No date has been specified, but the company says it is “opening soon.”

The announcement is accompanied by an absolutely beautiful graphic, with a delicate flower unfolding in the shape of the Apple logo …

Apple shared its Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals today. While the savings aren’t as good as you’ll find elsewhere, it is offering some useful tools like a holiday “Order By” guide to help customers know about the deadlines to receive gifts by December 25.

A third UK Apple Store has unionized, following earlier examples in Glasgow and London. The Southampton Apple Store is the latest to make the move, and is now seeking recognition by Apple.

Apple’s retail staff has been increasingly seeing unionization as the most likely way to achieve better pay and conditions, with staff in Southampton arguing that some of the changes introduced by Apple harm customers as well as staff …

Via Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter, Apple is gearing up to offer a new option for Apple retail store employees to offer customers when buying a product. Employees will now be able to make sales with home delivery instead of requiring that the customer carry the product home.

Gurman says the new EasyPay Online Ordering program will be available to stores in August. The move to offering home delivery shipments in store may signal a larger strategy shift.

Yet another Apple union-busting tactic has been found to be illegal. Yesterday’s ruling by a judge was the third time that the company was found to have broken employment law in its efforts to stem the growing tide of Apple Store staff forming and joining unions.

A US labor board judge found that the company was guilty of “coercively interrogating workers” about their unionization activities …