Apple Store Carroussel du Louvre, inauguration Day : I was there!
By Cédric Pierre-Louis on Saturday 7 November 2009, 18:43 - Apple - Permalink
Like thousand of other brave Apple fans, I was this morning among the first customers of the first Apple store opened in France. I was so exciting by this inauguration that I decided on the fly to go to Paris from Brussels... in carpooling, for the first time (thanks Maya).
Finally, I was not disappointed... this opening was just impressive : 1,5 km of people standing in a queue, around 5000-6000 people waiting for discovering this brand new Apple store at 10 o'clock, 150 employees for supporting or advicing customers, 5000 collector t-shirts (in a magnificent - pyramid - package) for the first customers, some french famous people (Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Luc Besson, Vincent Cassel) in a sumptuous area... the Carroussel du Louvre.
Tonight I am the happy owner of a brand new Apple remote in aluminium, a
beautiful collector T-shirt and many photos of this "historic" event. I will
post more items as soon as possible, but for the moment I need to rest in order
to recover from 3 hours of standing in line, in a quite cold weather. Anyway,
this Apple store is a very charming and pleasant place and will surely succeed
in attracting many visitors and customers.
If you want to see more photos, check out the blog of my friend
Nathalie : www.theparisienne.fr
Comments
it really was something, right ?! I saw vincent Cassel, but I"m so sad I did not see Yvan Attal and charlotte gainsbourg ! It was fun anyway :)