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Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store

2013 Column Contest Winner

This isn’t brick and mortar, it’s glass and steel. J. K. Appleseed takes you backstage at Apple Retail, the supercollider of human expectations and consumer technology.

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    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: Why You Deserve a Pay Raise
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  • August 26, 2014
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: Quiz: Are You an Apple Fan?
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  • July 29, 2014
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: The Mothership
    by J.K. Appleseed
  • July 11, 2014
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: Decision Chart
    by J.K. Appleseed
  • June 11, 2014
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: Seasonal Colors
    by J.K. Appleseed
  • May 15, 2014
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: A Sit Down Chat with Apple Head of Retail, Angela Ahrendts
    by J.K. Appleseed
  • April 24, 2014
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: APPLE ENGINEER REVEALS iWATCH SPECS
    by J.K. Appleseed
  • April 3, 2014
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: I’ll Partition the Crap Out of You
    by J.K. Appleseed
  • March 13, 2014
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: Choose Your Own Genius
    by J.K. Appleseed
  • February 20, 2014
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: Customer Service is the New Cold War
    by J.K. Appleseed
  • January 27, 2014
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: Believers
    by J.K. Appleseed
  • December 18, 2013
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: Store Meetings
    by J.K. Appleseed
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