First Australian Apple Store Gets Modern Redesign as Thieves Rob Apple Regent Street in UK

Idiot thieves. Those devices are now bricked.

Definition of incongruent: Ten thugs on five mopeds :D


Thieves don't care if the devices are bricked. They didn't steal them for personal use. Those devices will either be parted out, sold to some unsuspecting dupe, or sent somewhere deep in the Asian market.

Thugs on mopeds? :confused: Mopeds? What kind of biker gang is that? Wow, hear something new everyday.

Destroys $5000 worth of stolen mopeds.

Collects $6000 worth of gear

#worthit

I live 300m from it. It’s my local Apple store. Cant wait!

I don’t know why people don’t understand this Lol. Every time these articles are posted someone says “the phones are useless!” You really think the thieves stole them to use for themselves? They’re obviously going to sell them as 69Mustang said.

People they sell them too won’t know or they’ll use the parts.

('//www.macrumors.com/2017/11/13/first-australian-apple-store-modern/')


Apple recently announced that its retail location within the Chadstone Shopping Center in Melbourne, Australia will be getting a grand reopening on November 24 at 9:00 a.m. local time. The newly relocated Apple Chadstone ('https://www.apple.com/au/retail/chadstone/') location will be triple the size of the previous store, and mark the first Australian store to gain Apple's modern retail layout.

Apple Chadstone first opened nearly ten years ago in 2008 with 69 employees, and will now grow to more than 240 with the grand reopening (via Herald Sun ('http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/apple-to-open-huge-new-chadstone-store-complete-with-grove-of-native-trees/news-story/1582cffc4476c38da629b2be652b1a84')).


Image via Herald Sun


Apple Chadstone will now feature a Genius Grove, a "boulevard" of window product displays, a boardroom for business meetings with local entrepreneurs and developers, a meeting place for "Today at Apple," and more. According to Apple senior vice president of retail, Angela Ahrendts, Apple Chadstone will lead the way for the rest of Australia's Apple retail locations.
In other retail news, Apple Regent Street was robbed today by ten individuals who stole "thousands of pounds worth of laptops and iPads" (via Evening Standard ('https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/mass-raid-on-londons-flagship-apple-store-with-gangs-stealing-thousands-of-pounds-of-iphones-and-a3689276.html')). To get into the store, the robbers drove mopeds through the glass storefront in the early morning hours of Monday, and then in less than three minutes managed to take various products from display stands before escaping on more mopeds waiting outside.

In total, police said the thieves stole iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and two iPhone Xs, which have since been recovered near Kings Cross. Apple Regent Street is said to be "open as usual" in the wake of the attack, which apparently follows an "epidemic" of moped-related attacks and thefts hitting London recently.
For more on the latest Apple retail openings and redesigns, check out or Apple Store Roundup ('//www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-retail-stores/').

(Thanks, SlippedAtom54!)

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Destroys $5000 worth of mopeds.

Collects $6000 worth of gear

#worthit