Comments on: Apple isn’t building retail stores as fast as its sales are growing

By: Jeremy Caron

Jeremy Caron — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:39:58 +0000

yet android fans would like you to believe apple is dieing.. ROFL

By: jenslapinski

jenslapinski — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:00:44 +0000

This article in its current form doesn’t make much sense to me. If anything you should compare total number of stores vs. total sales and then calculate a ratio between the two.

By: Carol @iphonesintocash.com

Carol @iphonesintocash.com — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:29:08 +0000

I think it is by design. Many retailers often get ahead of themselves and realize they have to scale back. I think if they are at max capacity they are running efficiently.

By: Danox

Danox — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:15:16 +0000

Wall Street has laughed at everything Apple has done in the last 16 years.

By: John

John — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:01:13 +0000

I believe Horace also pointed out that Apple is enlarging many stores so floor space is increasing faster than store openings.

By: Laughing_Boy48

Laughing_Boy48 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:22:15 +0000

That’s odd. You’re not in agreement with Wall Street’s assessment that Apple will soon be out of business as consumers all switch to Samsung and Android devices looking for reasonably priced goods. In fact, Wall Street doesn’t consider Apple’s retail stores or customer service/customer education to be of any use whatsoever. All that matters is market share and nothing else after that.

By: stevew69

stevew69 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:50:03 +0000

Some accountants figure Net Sales = Gross Sales – Cost of Sales, where Cost of Sales is the cost of operating the sales channel – Apple Stores in this case.

Net Sales from the Apple Stores can be compared directly with Net Sales from store.apple.com, Net Sales from Best Buy, etc.

By: Statspotting

Statspotting — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:39:00 +0000

I think just considering sales would be a mistake. There would be other parameters on which the retail store decision would be based on. I am not too sure if sales will even be there in the top 5.

By: keninca

keninca — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:31:29 +0000

Shouldn’t the graph compare total stores opened vs. total sales? Or maybe per cent increase in stores vs. increase in sales? This isn’t a valid comparison.

And what are “net sales”? I’ve heard of sales, and net earnings, but not net sales.