Retail Refugees

Apple now invading the space below I.M. Pei´s glass pyramid at Paris´s Louvre museum.  On saturday, the first Parisian outpost for Apple opened with great fanfare.

This is Apple’s 277th store, worldwide and is said to be slightly smaller than the one on Oxford Circus in London.  The bilevel store will employ 150 people and you can expect the place to be very crowded as the Louvre concourse is one of the most heavily trafficked places in Paris.  This location links all of the wings of the Louvre, and visitors to the museum have to pass by before entering the museum.