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First MS Retail Stores Will be In Scottsdale, AZ and Mission Viejo, CA

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the probably-good-swag-on-day-1 dept.

UnknowingFool writes "MS has announced the locations of its first two retail stores. The first one will be located at The Shops in Mission Viejo, CA sometime in the fall. There is an existing Apple store at the location. The second one will be located in Scottsdale Fashion Square in Scottsdale, AZ. That location does not have an Apple store. According to Corporate Communications Director Kim Stocks, the locations were picked because they were 'hot markets,' presumably meaning high traffic. Also, the stores will sell laptops, Zunes, Xbox 360s, MS and 3rd party software. No details on which laptops were provided."

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  1. Wrong! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Scottsdale loc does have an Apple store; it's shiny, new and enormous. I just bought a mac-mini there a couple days ago.

    1. Re:Wrong! by sidesh0w · · Score: 3, Informative

      Yeah, the only Apple store in Scottsdale is like 10 miles north of there, near Keirland Commons not Fashion Square. I can, however, confirm its shininess.

    2. Re:Wrong! by LionMage · · Score: 3, Informative

      How this got modded informative is beyond me. Anyone can simply head over to the web site that Apple maintains with the list of stores. The stores in Arizona are:

      • Chandler, Chandler Fashion Center
      • Gilbert, SanTan Village
      • Glendale, Arrowhead
      • Phoenix, Biltmore (where I do most of my Apple Store shopping)
      • Scottsdale, Scottsdale Quarter (note that this is not the Scottsdale Fashion Square!)
      • Tucson, La Encantada

      Furthermore, there's a link to the store at Scottsdale Quarter, which gives a map that shows the store is located on Scottsdale Road south of Kierland Boulevard. A Google search will turn up the site for the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall, which is at the intersection of Camelback and Scottsdale Roads. Plugging that into Google Maps (which Apple conveniently uses for the map and provides a driving directions link for) shows that the two locations are separated by 8.5 miles. So they're not even close.

  2. It Failed in SF, it won't work now. by netik · · Score: 3, Informative

    How is this the first?

    Their first store was in San Francisco at the Metreon in 1997.

    It failed miserably.