Well, the Grand Opening of the Meadowhall Applestore was fun, though
perhaps not that grand. I arrived at about 8:30 and found maybe 150
people or so people in a queue just outside the shop. There were some
Apple employees acting as cheerleaders, and we had Mexican Waves and
sundry other party games for a while. At about 8:50 all the store
employees (several dozen of them) came out and ran down the length of
the queue, high-fiving everyone. And pretty much immediately after that
they started letting people in, a few minutes before 9 o'clock. By that
time I think there were probably another 100 to 150 people behind me in
the queue.
Once inside the store it was extremely busy & crowded for the first 45
minutes or so, but after that it did begin to thin out a bit. It was a
typical small Applestore - tables & shelves round the walls, a couple
of big tables in the middle, all with kit laid out and working. Lots of
hands on, lots of interaction with the staff. It was good.
What was funniest about the opening & pre-openeing, of course, was all
the other shoppers walking past and clearly wondering what on earth all
the noise & excitement was about...
Oh, and they gave me a t-shirt, which on the front has an Apple sign
and reads 'Meadowhall', and 'designed by Apple in California' on the
back.
Tom
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