I found this shocking post. I know that Gucci bags and Mont Blanc pens, Rolex’s and Marmot jackets are all counterfeited but who would ever think to fake an entire store?
Visit to a fake Apple store in China
Mark Frauenfelderat 10:44 AM Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011
Jessica found three fake Apple stores in China and took photos. It’s not clear whether the products were genuine or knockoffs.
They looked like Apple products. It looked like an Apple store. It had the classic Apple store winding staircase and weird upstairs sitting area. The employees were even wearing those blue t-shirts with the chunky Apple name tags around their necks… But some things were just not right: the stairs were poorly made. The walls hadn’t been painted properly.Apple never writes “Apple Store” on it’s signs – it just puts up the glowing, iconic fruit.