In January, Apple announced that it was appointing John Browett as the senior vice president of retail, following Ron Johnson’s decision to take a role as the CEO of J.C. Penny. Browett has officially started his role with Apple, 9to5 Mac said Wednesday. He was reportedly issued 100,000 shares of Apple’s stock — or about $60

Walmart has started to outfit at least one of its locations with new product displays centered on the iPhone and iPad. The first location that was spotted with the new counters is located in Arkansas, where the company is headquartered. The displays look like one would expect from an Apple Store location: counters are made

An 83-year-old woman named Evelyn Paswall has decided to file a lawsuit against Apple after she walked into a glass Apple Store door and broke her nose. Paswall, who broke her nose at a Long Island store, is suing for $1 million in damages and her lawyer is arguing that Apple’s clear-glass doors are too

Are you looking to purchase the new iPad on Friday without having to wait in a line? Well, let us let you in on a little secret, you might not have to wait in line at all. While I’ll be covering the huge crowds at Apple’s New York City stores on Friday, I also called

Like a herald of old, you know when the infamous online Apple Store “We’ll be back soon.” post-it goes on the site, thing are about to get exciting. Every time this happens we find ourselves stopping to wonder why in this modern age Apple needs to take its site off-line to update it.  Whatever the

Target is heeding the “Apple a day will keep the doctor away” advice, confirming on Thursday the retail giant will play host to 25 special Apple boutique style stores-within-a-store (refrain from the Inception jokes). The Minneapolis-based retailer unveiled its “The Shops at Target” initiative in New York today, verifying speculation from last week about the

Could Apple set up Apple Stores inside target locations? According to AppleInsider, the company plans to open 25 Apple Store locations inside existing Target stores; a move that would allow the company to expand into smaller metro areas. According to AI’s sources, Apple will first launch 25 store-within-a-store locations across the United States in locations

Is it a rock star mezzanine performance? Brangelina waiting for a train? No, the throngs of people queueing up in New York’s Grand Central Station were all lined up to get a peep at Apple‘s latest store. Sitting atop the balcony of the historic station’s main lobby, the retail outpost had its grand opening today

Judging by the ticker that has graced Grand Central Station, it seems Apple‘s latest New York City retail outpost will be launching there next week. When it opens its doors on December 9, the location — Apple’s fifth in NYC — will reportedly also be the company’s largest brick-and-mortar shopping destination among its stable of

Next time you head to your local Apple Store to pick up a purchase, Apple employees may be able to find you a little quicker. Over Black Friday Apple test drove a new feature of the Apple Store app that allows employees to easily find customers in the store. To use the functionality, you would

An update to Apple’s Apple Store application for iOS has been the focus of reports for several weeks, with suggestions that the Cupertino company would push out version 2.0 of its official app last week. It’s a little later than that rumored release date, but the update has arrived today, introducing new EasyPay, Personal Pickup,

Apple retail locations will be closing their doors from 10am-11:30am PST tomorrow so that retail employees can watch a live broadcast of a memorial for Steve Jobs being held in Cupertino. No sales, one-on-ones, or other types of appointments will be able to be scheduled during that time frame. The Cupertino event is being held

If you want to buy an iPhone 4S from Apple, now you need a reservation. In order to cut down on long lines and disappointed customers, the retailer is now requiring customers to reserve an iPhone 4S on its website to pick up in the store the next day. Reservations open online at 9 PM

While images of lines outside of Apple stores in the United States are nothing new, we don’t always get to see images from other locations from around the world. These images came in today to us of the line outside of the Hong Kong Apple Store of people waiting for their chance to pick up

In is what has become a tradition with Apple announcements, the online version of the Apple Store has put up its infamous “We’ll be back soon.” post-it note. Why in the world in 2011 Apple still needs to pull their site off-line to update it is beyond us, but the simple post-it image has come

To many, Apple’s iPhone keynote on Tuesday, October 4, will be one of the most exciting events this year — finally putting months and months of speculation to rest. But if you weren’t lucky enough to have gotten an invite, you won’t know what’s unveiled until you read it online. Unless you head down to

Apple is preparing its NYC stores to be hit by Hurricane Irene this weekend by shutting them down. The company is closing the doors of the majority of its NYC-based stores on Saturday and Sunday (including the famous 24/7/365 location on 5th Avenue) during Irene’s possible landfall in the city. NYC’s mass transit system will

Yesterday we announced that our own Jon Rettinger would be hanging out at the Apple Store – Covent Garden in London today around 11:45 AMish.  We thought that maybe one or two people would show up … we never thought there would be close to 30 of you!  A big thank you to all of our

Do you live in or around London?  Can you make it down to the Apple Store – Covent Garden around noon on Wednesday, Aug. 24?  If so, our own Jon Rettinger is currently in London on vacation, and he wants to meet up with some of our U.K. readers.  And is there really a better

We’ve already heard that carriers could be testing a 4G LTE iPhone, but now there’s a new tidbit to add: A source over at Engadget spotted and snapped a pic of what looks like LTE equipment installed at an undisclosed Apple Store location. Unfortunately, the site took the image down, at the request of its

Wonder what an Apple Store might look like in Grand Central? The MTA has released a few images of what Grand Central Terminal’s Apple Store is expected to look like when it finally opens its doors. Apple recently leased the space in Grand Central from the MTA, taking over a location previously occupied by Charlie

We’ve all seen those videos of people dancing in various Apple Store locations, and haven’t you ever wondered why no one says anything to them about stopping? Sure, every once in awhile it seems someone gives them a sideways glance, but very little actually happens.  We’ve even heard some people bring their pets in with

An Apple Store is on its way to Grand Central Terminal in NYC. According to the NY Post this week, Apple and the MTA have agreed to a 10-year deal to bring the store to the terminal, replacing Charlie Palmer’s Metrazur restaurant. So how much does rent cost in NYC’s biggest station? Try $800,000 a

It’s always exciting to see the latest and greatest from Apple, but once the newest devices hit their system, the old ones are purged quicker than you can blink.  It can make it difficult at times to decide if the new system you are eyeing is truly better than the last.  Did you make a

When the Apple Stores do an overnight shift, it usually means something in the stores is changing.  Sometimes it is as simple as changing displays, shifting all of their paper signs to iPad units or even just a training session.  But sometimes it also means new products, and with a new overnight appearing to be