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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Retail , Found Footage The day is Thursday, October 22nd. You’re in Scottsdale, Arizona, and you walk into a brand new store being opened by a multinational corporation that produces technology products, including popular operating systems for computers and mobile phones, music/media players, and ‘cloud’... 

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — On opening night, Microsoft’s first retail store here drew lots more visitors than the long-established Apple store right down the street. Microsoft’s store might be a plank-for-plank remake of Apple’s groundbreaking shops, but it’s got one thing Apple’s stores lack — walls of Xboxes.... 

Here we go: Microsoft today opened its second ‘me too’ store in the same mall as Apple, this time in Mission Viejo, California . It’s the new physical manifestation of the philosophical battle between Microsoft’s strategy of managing through necessity and Apple’s “whole widget’ M.O. Naturally it all represents... 

Apple’s impressive new retail store in Shanghai, China opened today to large crowds. MICGadget provides a gallery of photos from the launch and the Wall Street Journal reports that 150 fans were waiting overnight to be the first in the Store….  Read More →

The New York Times reports that The Walt Disney Company is planning a ground-up revival of its retail stores using a high-tech “Imagination Park” concept and has turned to Steve Jobs and the retail store team at Apple for assistance with the project….  Read More →

ifoAppleStore reports that Apple has decided to pay out bonuses of $150 to its retail store employees who worked the iPhone 4 launch day, at least in the U.S. But there appears to be a catch: Eligible em…  Read More →

Microsoft opened up its second Microsoft Store retail location in Mission Viejo, CA Thursday. With the help of a free concert ticket giveaway for Canadian pop star Justin Bieber, the company saw a line of some one thousand people waiting for the doors to open, according to The OCRegister.  Read More →

Mac displays at Apple’s Covent Garden retail store in London RetailWeek reports (subscription required, via 9 to 5 Mac) on Apple’s retail store experience in the wake of the opening of its massive Covent Garden store in London. The re…  Read More →

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Filed under: Apple Corporate , Retail Apple typically opens retail stores in high-end shopping areas, and this one is as high-end as it gets. Beneath the great glass pyramid that marks the entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris is Carrousel du Louvre, home to shops, a gourmet food court, exhibition space and, as of this Saturday, an Apple Store... 

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