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I hear double-posting is a good way to get the ball rolling.  Way to go! 

Buy stuff at any other Apple store. Give them your Zip code when they say "What's your Zip code?"

Do that often enough, and get enough people to do it, and they'll consider your area to be profitable enough for a store. I've seen the maps - they're interesting.

Sonic Dude wrote:

Buy stuff at any other Apple store. Give them your Zip code when they say "What's your Zip code?"

If you then say "I live in a country where we call it something else." then they'll spit in your face and laugh about Birmingham.

Booksley wrote:

You gotta have a mall first. Not just any mall, a trendy mall with equally trendy stores. Look for high end clothing and way too many teenagers. Apple will then put a store in there.

Worked here!  Oh how we locals wish the Apple Store weren't on the Strip...

Sonic Dude wrote:

Buy stuff at any other Apple store. Give them your Zip code when they say "What's your Zip code?"

Do that often enough, and get enough people to do it, and they'll consider your area to be profitable enough for a store. I've seen the maps - they're interesting.

That works but I think the part that sucks for him is that the nearest Apple Store is in Houston.

I wonder why they haven't put on in at West Ed.

SonicSamurai wrote:

Booksley wrote:

You gotta have a mall first. Not just any mall, a trendy mall with equally trendy stores. Look for high end clothing and way too many teenagers. Apple will then put a store in there.

er..... If I replace 'high end clothing' with 'overpriced crap' and 'teenagers' with 'Mall Hoochies', what would that get me?

Best Buy.

Both of those would actually improve upon the mall in question.

Now that a million people in southern Louisiana have moved north, usually closer to Shreveport (home of the thread's first poster "cbaines"), and won't be buying new homes, just oatmeal, they will have plenty of extra cash.

Sorry for the thread drift. 

Last edited by Tetrachloride (2005-08-31 5:18 pm)

cbaines wrote:

I WANNA APPLE STORE!

I mean, really, its time, so does anyone know how to get Apple to look at the metrics and see if it pays to put in a store in a market area?

Asses the location and finacial net gain profitability to them in a report. Then e mail them it.

Moses wrote:

JediKnightChewie wrote:

but since apple wont ship to my address, I have to have it shipped to socal, and socal really needs more apple stores

I need one by my house, not 5 minutes, 20 minutes and 30 minutes away.

Better than 5 hours (Atlanta), 6 hours (Nashville), and 16 hours (Dallas/Ft. Worth).

I am not sure why, but the Pacific Northwest went from 'closest Apple Store in California' to seven in just a couple years.  Three have opened in Portland in less than a year.   I know that the average Apple computer user has more education and a higher income than most consumers.   I suspect that tracking that (by zip code and questionnaires).  I also think the cool factor has something to do with it.   Apple Stores may only be built in places where Steve would feel comfortable hanging out.    There aren't any in Alabama, Mississippi, Utah or North Dakota.  And, now with New Orleans gone, any claim Louisiana had to coolness is history.

The list:

http://www.apple.com/retail/