If only Apple would upgrade the look of their Stores like the new Sony Store

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Do you know Apple Stores contain understated
Real granite floor.
Real wood tables.

Not the fake laminated floors or tables in the Sony Store.

Also, PR video: "every time you get in here it can be a completely different experience."

LOL. So they are doing the super market way of moving things around to confuse people, in the hope that people will spend more time in the store.

Who cares I'm not buying the store

No, but you're buying into the experience, from "cradle to grave." It all starts in the store. The store is the first point of entrance, and it's an important one.

 

[SevenInchScrew]

No, but you're buying into the experience, from "cradle to grave." It all starts in the store. The store is the first point of entrance, and it's an important one.

1 - Enter store
2 - You: "Hello, I'd like to purchase X item"
3 - Associate: "Sure, it is $X and has A, B, and C features"
4 - You: "Does it have a warranty?"
5 - Associate: Yes, X years that can be extended with our XX plan."
6 - You: "Thanks, I'll take it"
7 - Associate: "Great, they'll ring you up right over there."
8 - Pay and leave store.

That process could have been someone purchasing a new MacBook at an Apple Store, a new refrigerator at Best Buy, or a PlayStation at a Sony Store. Every product I've bought at an Apple Store was no different. Walk in, purchase item, walk out. I'm not sure how the Apple Store "experience" is any different, other than the stores always being over crowded with "customers" making the wait slightly annoying.

 

[fredfnord]

Thread's over

You're like Mao, or Goebbels.

Okay, thread's over. You lost.

 

[fredfnord]

Admittedly, Apple did the MS stunt too - the SF Apple store is located in a line directly across from the Metreon. XD

Er... as long as you define 'a block and a half away, and across the busiest street in the entire city' as 'directly across from'.

That, and the Metreon was infinitely cooler than any Apple store. Sad thing was nobody knew what it was or cared so it all went bust and now it's just a Target and a movie theater *gag*

...uh...

Wow. I appreciate that this is your opinion, but I visited the Metreon a couple months after it opened, and have lived within a couple of miles of it for most of the time that it existed. I thought it was breathtakingly ugly, inexcusably gaudy. I am not sure whether it was designed to appeal to 8-year-olds, or whether it is something that would appeal to Japanese people ('ugly' and 'gaudy' are cultural judgements, in large part) but it certainly didn't appeal to me, nor to the vast majority of San Franciscans.

It's not like they didn't know about it: they went (and still go) to movies there in large numbers, since it's a very convenient place to meet, and has an IMAX theatre.

They just hated it.

 

[stainlessliquid]

All the apple stores Ive been too have been very sterile and hospital like. Theyre creepy, especially with all the same computers laid out exactly the same way. Why do they need so many computers? I want to look at each computer because I expect each one to be different but they are all the same. I also hate how they dont have regular registers, ordering a macbook pro there was a huge pain in the ass, I had to stand in 3 different places and fill out crap online at another computer and have my credit card exchange hands with multiple people, basically I drove down there to order a computer online in a cluster**** fashion, at Best Buy I would have had to stand in one place to order... the register.

I cant stand apple stores, they look cool from the outside but once inside I feel like Ive stepped into another dimension where everything has been cloned.

 

[lsvtecjohn3]

Every time I walk into an Apple Store I get the feeling I'm walking into an IKEA store. Its got that real cheap feel to it. I love their minimalist decor but Apple needs to refresh it with a more upgraded look. Something more in line with the new Sony Store. The new Sony Store has a minimalist and extremely modern look without looking cheap like the Apple Stores. It just looks high end especially with all the high end electronics like their wall of XBR TVs. Then you got all their other high end stuff like cameras, camcorders, bluray players, etc.... The store just looks so cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBTAdrYcwiY

How is it that you feel that way towards the Apple store yet the Sony store is identical to the Apple store? The Sony store doesn't look no more or less high in than an Apple store. In fact it looks as if Sony copied Apple style with there new store.

 

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All the apple stores Ive been too have been very sterile and hospital like. Theyre creepy, especially with all the same computers laid out exactly the same way. Why do they need so many computers? I want to look at each computer because I expect each one to be different but they are all the same. I also hate how they dont have regular registers, ordering a macbook pro there was a huge pain in the ass, I had to stand in 3 different places and fill out crap online at another computer and have my credit card exchange hands with multiple people, basically I drove down there to order a computer online in a cluster**** fashion, at Best Buy I would have had to stand in one place to order... the register.

I cant stand apple stores, they look cool from the outside but once inside I feel like Ive stepped into another dimension where everything has been cloned.

Except their stores are one of retail's biggest success stories.

But at least we know how *you* feel personally. Duly noted.

 

[Dr McKay]

Sony has a store 3 doors down from the Apple store near me. Apple store is always mobbed. I've never seen more than a dozen people in the Sony store.

I bet if you removed all the people that were only in the Apple store to

Record Videos/Dance/Check Facebook/Kill Time/Pose for Photos/Because it's cool

And only showed the people in there who wanted to buy something, the numbers would be only a few more people in the Apple Store.