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Apple preparing another large London store?
As many of our readers know, London is already host to the world's largest Apple store (pictured above) on renowned shopping-mile Regent Street. However, Apple's ambitions for the UK capital have yet to be fully realised according to a Macworld UK report today - for Apple is preparing to open another store just over a mile away in Covent Garden. The new store is touted as being a 3-storey affair taking up around 25,000 square foot. The existing Regent Street store is approximately 28,000 square foot, and according to ifoAppleStore remains one of the best performing stores - clearly Apple thinks there's plenty more custom to be snapped up and certainly TUAW visits to the flagship store have never been quiet affairs.The Covent Garden store is apparently going to be located at 4 The Piazza, in a location currently taken by a restaurant and nightclub -- it is of course too early to guess when the new store will indeed open.
New UK Retail Store opens this Saturday
Hear ye, hear ye Britons! If you were wondering when the much-delayed Midsummer Place, Milton Keynes retail store was opening, you can wonder no more, for this Saturday the store is throwing open its doors for the first time. ifoAppleStore (the site in the know about all things Apple Retail) points to 'mis-sized glass' causing the store's opening to slip well past the intended pre-Christmas opening. As with all Apple Store openings, there's a "Digital Lifestyle Collection" of a black MacBook and silver iPod nano to be won, with the first thousand people through the door nabbing a free T-shirt.The store opens at 9.30am this Saturday, 1st March. If you're attending, do send us your reports (and maybe watch for a TUAW operative amongst the sheep queue-rs) -- here's to hoping you manage to bag a T-shirt!Thanks to all those who sent this in!
Princesshay (UK) Retail Store to open this weekend
Apple's push to open more retail stores outside the US continues, with our Cupertino friends announcing the opening of the thirteenth UK retail store in Exeter's Princesshay Centre for this coming Saturday (24th November).As with every store opening, there's commemorative t-shirts available to the first 1,000 folks through the door, and a 'Digital Lifestyle Collection' up for grabs in the raffle, which includes a Black MacBook and Silver iPod nano. If there's any TUAW operatives visiting Princesshay this weekend, do send us stories and photos - and let's hope you score a t-shirt!
