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Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store

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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.

  • September 11, 2014
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: Why You Deserve a Pay Raise
    by J.K. Appleseed
  • August 26, 2014
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: Quiz: Are You an Apple Fan?
    by J.K. Appleseed
  • 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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