Apple Store sales have skyrocketed with Apple now earning over $17 million per store last quarter.
Here's some interesting statistics from Needham's Charlie Wolf and relayed by FORTUNE.
For the quarter that ended Dec. 31: ● Revenue per store: a record $17.08 million, $5 million better than Dec. 2010 ● Same store sales: up 42.6% year over year ● Sales per square foot: $2,033 for the quarter, or an annualized rate of $8,133 (Tiffany's: $2,974 per sq. ft.) ● Visitors per store: up 15.3% annualized ● Share of Apple's worldwide revenue 13.2% ● International sales: 58% of Apple's worldwide total ● Stores at the end of the quarter: 361 ● Square feet per store: 8,400, up from 6,000 ten years ago ● Stores planned for fiscal 2012: 40 total, about 30 overseas ● Stores planned for China: 25 over the next 3 years, up from 5 today
Check out Apple's retail growth illustrated in the chart below...
Jst the plain design and beauty of the device and amazing things that u can do with it unlike ordinary cell phones. And yes with the up coming iPhone SJ ( iPhone 5 ) we cam expect and bigger growth