Apple's Opening Up to 35 New Stores in the Next Year
Apple's retail strategy has been extremely successful, so is it any wonder the company is continuing to expand its chain of retail stores every year? The company now has stores in 13 countries and its retail division employs over 40,000 full-time employees working on 4.1 million square feet of retail space. However, Cupertino today revealed that those numbers are going to grow come 2013. In an SEC filling filed October 31, Apple said 2013 will bring up to 35 more stores.
Apple's annual 10-K filing details that the company plans to open 30 to 35 new retail stores, with approximately three-quarters of them outside of the United States. The company opened 33 stores this year, 28 of which were outside the USA, and ended the year with 390 shops compared to 2011's 357 stores. As of the end of September, Apple has a total of 250 U.S. retail stores and 140 international retail stores.
Apple didn't reveal any more details about the locations of the new stores beyond the fact that the majority would be outside of the U.S. Does your city have an Apple store? Let us know in the comments below!
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Last time I was in one of those I was treated like a child...
PC FTW!
But how do you know they are at the "top" yet?
What do you expect when their flagship ipads are targeted towards people aged 0 - 5 ?
people in Detroit have disposable money, enough for an apple over priced thing?
PCs are less dependent on retail since there is more than one manufacturer. Even with the availability of mail-order systems from the likes of Dell and HP, there is the Computer Direct chain in the Detroit area (http://www.computerdirectcorp.com) that sells PCs (including Linux systems). But many other retailers including Computer City, CompUSA, and Circuit City have failed. Best Buy may be next.
Computer City only failed because CompUSA bought them out, and then there were TWO CompUSAs on the SAME STREET (John R) within a mile of each other...
Oh, and the economy hit the greatest recession of my lifetime...
MicroCenter was better than CompUSA was, but I think had the economy not tanked, we would have kept some of the other retailers...