![]() Fixtures inside the store are destroyed and discarded or sent away, never to be seen again. Occasionally, a small sign will inform customers that the store has moved, offering directions to the new location. Windows and logos are covered, often times by the next day when the new store opens. ![]() Products are cleared from the tables, and all identifying branding is removed that would associate Apple with a vacant storefront. On the last day of sales at an old location, employees often celebrate the move by gathering to watch the store’s large, lighted Apple logo turn off one last time.Īpple Third Street Promenade after being vacated. This means that replacement stores require entirely new fixtures and display inventory, since nothing on the sales floor can be moved out while the store is still operational. Out of the 86 stores, only 2 have permanently closed without a direct successor.Īpple typically builds out replacement stores quietly, allowing existing locations to remain open until the day the new store is revealed. This count does not include stores that have simply expanded into an adjacent mall unit. What happens to these old storefronts after Apple moves out? We’ve tracked down every former Apple store to see what they look like today.Īs of April 2018, a total of 86 Apple stores have either moved spaces in their respective malls, relocated to different buildings, or closed permanently. Many stores have relocated altogether, moving to larger and more desirable mall corridors, or across town to livelier shopping districts with greater foot traffic. While the shop’s bright magenta signage doesn’t betray the building’s past, Apple fans may remember the site at the corner of Stockton and Ellis streets as the former home of Apple’s flagship San Francisco store.Īfter nearly 17 years operating their own retail stores, many of Apple’s older locations have been remodeled and expanded as the company outgrows smaller spaces and changing technology commands an ever-evolving store layout. Last month, Apple more than doubled the size of its Rockingham Park Apple Store in Salem, New Hampshire, one of the busiest mall locations in the chain.Over this past holiday weekend, T-Mobile opened a new Signature Store in the heart of downtown San Francisco. ![]() The square footage will increase from 3,160 to about 7,690, double the original space.Īpple has moved a number of its stores within the same general areas in recent years, focusing on increased square footage of existing locations as they get busier, rather than building new locations. The width of the storefront will increase from 25 feet to nearly 75 feet. Apple will occupy spaces 170, 171 and about the right-most 10 feet of #172 (the remaining part to the left will be occupied by a bakery restaurant). ![]() The mall plan shows how the T-shaped Apple store will move into three spaces that form a curved storefront. The new store location will open on Saturday, December 14 at 8AM for extended holiday hours ( via 9to5Mac), just two Saturdays before Christmas. Apple is vastly increasing the size of its Stonestown Galleria Apple Retail Store in San Francisco, going from one of the narrowest locations in the chain at 25 feet wide - a total of 3,160 square feet including back of house space - to a much larger location a reported 7,600 square feet of total space.
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