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Apple Store (United States)
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Apple Store (United States)
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| First stores | Tysons Corner, Virginia & Glendale, California — May 19, 2001 |
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| Stores | ~270 — the largest national fleet |
| Flagships | Fifth Avenue cube (New York) · Michigan Avenue (Chicago) · Apple Park Visitor Center |
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The United States is where Apple retail was invented — over the skepticism of everyone who watched Gateway's stores die. The first two Apple Stores opened the same May 2001 day on opposite coasts, Steve Jobs giving press tours of wooden tables and a "Genius Bar" the industry mocked and then copied wholesale.
1 The fleet✎
Roughly 270 stores anchor American malls and main streets, topped by architectural statements: the glass cube on Fifth Avenue (2006, open 24/7 in its heyday), Michigan Avenue's carbon-fiber roof on the Chicago River, and the Apple Park Visitor Center overlooking the ring itself. The U.S. fleet is Apple retail's laboratory — Today at Apple sessions, pickup logistics, and the store-as-town-square concept all premiered here, as did its labor chapter: the first unionized Apple Store (Towson, Maryland, 2022).
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