New Apple store opens tomorrow
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From: Chris Ridd on 7 Aug 2010 01:30 On 2010-08-06 23:28:29 +0100, Tim Streater said: > In article <8c38qsFk0U1(a)mid.individual.net>, > Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: > >> On 06/08/2010 11:11, Debbie Wilson wrote: >>> Mark<captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> In Covent Garden - the biggest in the world apparently. Wonder what was there >>>> before? >>> >>> It was the Rock Garden cafe, and it's a great spot for an Apple Store! >> >> Sounds like a promising spot for the next ucsm meet? > > Oh yes! If there's ballet on then I can drop the wife off, if there's > opera I'll go to that and leave her to meet you lot. And if we get bored the London Transport museum's in the other corner of CG. Worth visiting to see the original Clapham Omnibus, I bet Peter C would love it :-) -- Chris
From: Peter Ceresole on 7 Aug 2010 02:14 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > And if we get bored the London Transport museum's in the other corner > of CG. Worth visiting to see the original Clapham Omnibus, I bet Peter > C would love it :-) Oh I do. -- Peter
From: Pd on 7 Aug 2010 10:38 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-08-06 14:41:36 +0100, Basil Jet said: > > > On 2010\08\06 11:24, Jim wrote: > >> On 2010-08-06, Debbie Wilson<djmaizels(a)mac.com> wrote: > >>> Mark<captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> In Covent Garden - the biggest in the world apparently. Wonder what > >>>> was there before? > >>> > >>> It was the Rock Garden cafe, and it's a great spot for an Apple Store! > >> > >> They should also have a coffee shop. > >> > >> Actually, do any of them do that? Even if it was just a > >> Starbucks/Costa/Whatever? That would actually be quite cool. > > > > A cafe would take up retail space, and affect the Apple turnover. > > Nicely done. > > It might make enough coppers to let them patch up the Cupertino coffee > machine. Because as everyone knows, a failure in the Infinite Loop coffee machine would make Apple crumble. -- Pd
From: Chris Ridd on 7 Aug 2010 12:47 On 2010-08-07 10:19:25 +0100, Tim Streater said: > In article <8c49boF3sgU1(a)mid.individual.net>, > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > >> On 2010-08-06 23:28:29 +0100, Tim Streater said: >> >>> In article <8c38qsFk0U1(a)mid.individual.net>, >>> Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 06/08/2010 11:11, Debbie Wilson wrote: >>>>> Mark<captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> In Covent Garden - the biggest in the world apparently. Wonder what was there >>>>>> before? >>>>> >>>>> It was the Rock Garden cafe, and it's a great spot for an Apple Store! >>>> >>>> Sounds like a promising spot for the next ucsm meet? >>> >>> Oh yes! If there's ballet on then I can drop the wife off, if there's >>> opera I'll go to that and leave her to meet you lot. >> >> And if we get bored the London Transport museum's in the other corner >> of CG. Worth visiting to see the original Clapham Omnibus, I bet Peter >> C would love it :-) > > You mean so that Bella can take a pic of all us blokes on the rear > platform and label it "Men on a Clapham Omnibus"? That would have the > advantage that anything we said in the ng after that would, by > definition, have to be considered reasonable. Exactly! We went as near as we could to the new store today. It is on the corner of CG nearer the tube station, and takes the whole of the corner AFAICS. The queue to get in doubled back a few times and stretched to the other side of the market. -- Chris
From: Gwynne Harper on 7 Aug 2010 16:49
Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > > It might make enough coppers to let them patch up the Cupertino coffee > > machine. > > Because as everyone knows, a failure in the Infinite Loop coffee machine > would make Apple crumble. You can calculate the radius of the Infintive Loop using Apple Pi Gwynne -- My real email is net, not line. |