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New York and Chicago lose Nokia stores

New York and Chicago are to follow London in losing their Nokia stores. Nokia has confirmed that it's closing both stores, though apparently the US shops are closing because their mission is complete now that Americans know and love the Nokia brand. The shops were clearly an attempt to ape Apple's stores, but Nokia handsets are …

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Anonymous Coward
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Dead company walking

Nokia are dead, they just don't know it yet...

Peter 39

how about MS stores

I wonder how Microsoft's stores are doing? I know at least one is open, maybe both are by now.

Anyone have any idea of how busy they are, now that the opening-hoopla has died down?

Anonymous Coward
FAIL

There were Nokia stores?

If there were, I never saw any advertised and I work in London every day.

Ivan Headache
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Ah but London's a big place

and it's really easy to miss one small shop.

Andus McCoatover
Welcome

Price of suck sess

"Since opening the stores in NY and Chicago (2006), consumer awareness in the US has grown substantially. Weighing those dynamics with Nokia's clear strategy in North America, and our well-established retail channel with third parties, we will close these two stores (New York and Chicago) in early 2010"

So, if the BS above is correct, and everyone's heard of Apple, and it's well-established, when does Apple close it's flagship stores?

Oh, nice. Do well, work hard, promote the brand so well that you put yourself out of work. Don'cha just luuuve those much-spouted "Nokia Values"?

As the first poster noted, it's a dead company. Partially shafted by that incredibly stupid decision by that prat Simon Beresford-Wylie to nip into bed with a tainted German strumpet, and share some siemen.

Customer Awareness? More like "Customer Bewareness".

Yep. Dead as a nail on the lamp-room floor. We won't miss them. Not even in Finland, as the company base is practically Indo/Chinese nowadays.

I, for one welcome our new Huawei/LG* overlords.

*Just wait...it'll happen.

Anonymous Coward
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Down and out in London, New York and Chicago

Well, maybe they can usefully redeploy the sacked store staff as UI designers tasked with developing a coherent touch interface. God knows, they need one.

Nokia won't die, they'll just end up as a 2nd rate maker of low end phones, swapping places with someone like Samsung or LG. It would probably be better if they did die.

jamie 5

Roll on the closures

Perhaps they'll close the store in Hong Kong too. I walk past it on my way to and from work, and I have yet to see more customers than staff, and if you go there with a broken Nokia phone, they tell you to go away.

Kevin7
FAIL

People don't buy unlocked phones

Stores like this will always have a problem because relatively few people ever buy unlocked phones - they have no network subsidy either as PAYG or contract.

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