Apple Store Near Sydney Permanently Closing Later This Year

Apple contiguous said its store astatine the Westfield Hornsby buying mall, successful Hornsby, Australia, volition beryllium permanently closing successful October.


In a connection shared with Australian tech quality website EFTM (via Reddit), Apple said that it has decided not to renew its lease astatine Westfield Hornsby. Apple said each affected retail employees volition beryllium fixed the accidental to enactment astatine Apple's adjacent store at the Chatswood Chase buying mall, successful Chatswood, which is acceptable to reopen successful October.

Hornsby is simply a suburb of Sydney, connected the Upper North Shore. Apple opened its store determination successful 2011.

Apple Chatswood Chase has been closed for renovations for galore months. Apple said the store volition beryllium wholly redesigned, and it volition connection an Apple Pickup presumption for collecting online orders, and a dedicated country for Today astatine Apple sessions.

Apple did not supply a circumstantial crushed for the Hornsby store closure, but it is intelligibly consolidating its North Shore retail beingness into the Chatswood Chase store.

Apple has six different stores successful the Sydney area.

Apple Hornsby volition beryllium astatine slightest the 5th Apple Store determination to permanently adjacent successful little than 2 years. Apple is closing a store successful Bristol, England adjacent month, and it closed its store in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook successful April. Last year, the institution permanently closed its Infinite Loop and Royal Hawaiian stores simultaneously.

On the different hand, Apple continues to unfastened caller stores successful respective countries, including the U.S., Spain, Sweden, Malaysia, South Korea, China, and others. In the U.S., Apple opened a caller store successful Miami earlier this year, and successful the Los Angeles country past year. Apple is besides readying to unfastened a store in Downtown Detroit soon.

In Australia, Apple conscionable relocated its store successful Perth to a historical slope building.
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