Ron Johnson
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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Banking Transformed with Jim Marous · What the Apple Store Can Teach Retail Bankers · 30 Jun 2026
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you know, really win in consumer technology, where the world was going to apps and digital and all this stuff.
He wanted to open his stores, but even his own board.
Wasn't enthused about stores.
One of the board members walked away when he said he's gonna open stores.
Because they had advised against it.
And internally at Apple, there was a lot of skepticism because the channel that we depended on wasn't that strong.
in the computer business.
Best buy wouldn't care the Apple products.
They were too small, the volume.
Circuit City wouldn't care.
The only place it could be was Compia Say and all these mom and pop resellers and Sears.
And the internal people were scared that if we launched our own stores, the channel would cut us off and then we'd have nothing.
Right. 'Cause Gateway was shutting its stores and Gateway was selling to ninety five percent of the users, the PC user.
And Apple's going after a small niche is what people thought.
How could you afford your own stores?
And then when we came up with our strategy, which is to put them in walls, the most expensive real estate on the 50-yard line, and have all these employees and devote 50% of the store not to products, but to ownership experiences and and not to have commissions.
You know, how could you do this?
A lot of skepticism, right?
And so that's the number one enemy.
And that was really brought to life for me at JC Penny, which we can talk about later, but
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