Apple Debuts Retail Stores (opens in new tab)

May 19, 2001 Apple Computer opens the first two locations of their new retail stores in McLean, Virginia and Washington, D.C. In the first weekend of opening, the stores will attract 7,700 shoppers and will sell a combined $599,000. While ridiculed by many technology “experts” at the time, the Apple Stores have been insanely successful and was… Apple Debuts Retail Stores is original content of This Day in Tech History.