I was at the Woodland Hills Mall Apple Store, and as soon as the store opened in the mall, people were flooding in to the store and doing business. I think they had around 15 EMPLOYEES on the floor, maybe 20!
The store had customers from the “get-go”!
NOW ... the hilarious thing, is that right down the mall, there was a Microsoft tablet store. I think that store might have had more square feet in the store than the Apple Store. There were only three employees in that store, and about five customers ... and all the rest of the room in the store was EMPTY SPACE ...no customers! ... LOL ...
The Apple Store had people right in the front, the SECOND the store was open and it remained packed ... with customers from then on!
“NOW ... the hilarious thing, is that right down the mall, there was a Microsoft tablet store. I think that store might have had more square feet in the store than the Apple Store. There were only three employees in that store, and about five customers ... and all the rest of the room in the store was EMPTY SPACE ...no customers! ... LOL ...”
That sounds very familiar to this...
I was flying out of a large airport and arrived at lunchtime. I noticed a Chipotle had opened since the last time I was there. The Chipotle had a line extending way, way back. The other 12 restaurants, including McDonalds, had a handful of people milling around.
I bought my first iMac at that Apple Store! In Topanga Plaza. (I know it’s called something else now.) the guy carried it to my car in the parking lot.
Same thing in the mall here. The Apple store is packed every weekend. The MS store has more employees than customers.