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December 2, 2006

stores

London’s Regent St. now biggest Apple Store

Posted Dec. 2, ’06, 8:04 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Apple » Stores

Regent St. ElevatorShould be perusing our site from the other side of the pond, you may be interested to know that the world’s largest Apple Store is now only a stone’s throw away. The Regent Street store in London has re-opened sections that had been closed off for renovations, revealing a number of fancy new features, including a glass elevator like the one found in the 5th Street NY store (one hopes they’ve worked out the kinks).

The store also now features both a Genius Bar and an iPod bar (still absent is any sign of a Bar Bar), which seems to be a direction in which Apple Stores have been moving—I’m in favor of that, since it seems to me that it’ll drop wait times for serious computer repair. And the overall retail space has been increased from 18,500 square feet to over 28,000.

The renovations were finished just in time for a one day shopping event in the UK—their equivalent of our Black Friday. Sales ought to be helped along by the fact that Regent St. employees are equipped with the handheld sales terminals that their US counterparts have been using for sometime now.


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