Airport iStore Cleared for Takeoff
9:15 am, November 28th, 2008, Nicole Martinelli
The first Apple reseller is as good a reason as any to fly through Montreal’s Pierre Elliot Trudeau airport.
The recently-launched Boutique iStore, a petite 225 square feet, offers free Wi-Fi, an iPod bar as well as a few useful accessories, like the power cord you left in the office in a hurry to dash.
It’s the sister store to an Apple retailer in central Montreal, which gives some assurance that the operation isn’t fly-by-night — and that if you need to service on something you bought at the airport, you don’t have to trek back out there.
ifoAppleStore, a site dedicated to keeping an eye on Apple stores, said that Apple retail execs once mentioned the mini-store prototype might move into airports, but the concept was never expanded beyond the original nine stores.
With long layovers the norm, this is an idea whose time has come.
Via Softpedia
Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Retail Stores | Comment on this article
Brilliant!!!
Joe K, on November 28th, 2008 at 11:09 am
I was like… Buy a Macbook?? WTH?!? But yeah, great way to peddle off cables, headphones, cases. What they should do is sell a iPod loaded with music.
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InternetBlogAddict, on November 28th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
They should have put it in Toronto. Every trip I’ve ever taken to Canada through Toronto has resulted in me getting stuck in the airport for at least 4 hours. Computers Down, plane not ready, ground staff not available, ‘weather’ (1/2″ of snow), etc. I now avoid Toronto’s airport at all costs, by far the worst airport I’ve ever travelled through.
I would have loved an iStore in O’Hare last week, I felt like a bum asking a fellow traveler if I could borrow his charger for a few minutes to get some working time.
InternetBlogAddict is right, they should sell iPods and iPod Touches preloaded with movies, music, and TV shows – Or have a kiosk that allows you to add that media to your device but have it show up as ‘iPod purchased’ when you plug it into your main sync computer.
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