Report: Apple opening 8th store in New York City
Apple's newest store in New York City is located in one of its most diverse burroughs and store employees will be fluent in a dozen languages.
According to the New York Daily News,Apple is opening the store on July 11 in the Queens Center mall located in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens.
"We are really excited to bring our eighth store in NYC to Queens," Jason Barlia, market director at Apple Retail, told the Daily News. "When we saw this location it made a lot of sense."
Barlia said the new Apple Retail Store will be one of the most diverse with over 130 staff members who will be speaking 24 languages apart from English. Two-thirds of staffers will also be fully bilingual. The staff, who are educated in all things Apple, will be led by Rob Sacal, who has been with the company for nine years. The store will also be one of the largest in a mall in New York, according to the Daily News.
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