{"id":3994,"date":"2015-03-18T13:55:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T17:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2015-03-18T13:55:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T17:55:29","slug":"apple-computer-retailer-to-open-in-ocean-county-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/03\/apple-computer-retailer-to-open-in-ocean-county-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Computer Retailer to Open in Ocean County Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3995\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/simple_mac.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3995\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/simple_mac-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"A Simply Mac store. (Photo: Simply Mac)\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/simple_mac-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/simple_mac-290x195.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Simply Mac store. (Photo: Simply Mac)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ocean County consumers looking for Apple products will soon be able to find a wider selection of them at the Ocean County Mall.<\/p>\n<p>While not a corporate \u201cApple Store,\u201d a new retailer known as Simply Mac will open in the mall in \u201clate spring or early summer,\u201d according to Tara Melodick, director of marketing and business development for the mall.<\/p>\n<p>Simply Mac sells the same products, prices, warranties, on-site repairs and services as traditional Apple Stores, the company said in an announcement released Wednesday. The Ocean County location, a 3,300 square foot store located near the Center Court mall entrance, will be Simply Mac\u2019s first in New Jersey. The chain, which was founded in 2006, has locations across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>There are no corporate-owned Apple Stores in Ocean County. The nearest are located in Freehold and Lawrence Township, providing an opportunity for a retailer to open its doors in Toms River.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are beyond excited to add Simply Mac to our exceptional retail lineup,\u201d said Melodick.\u00a0 \u201cApple is one of the most requested retailer names we receive so this new store containing all the well-known Apple products will certainly fill a popular category among our shoppers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/03\/apple-computer-retailer-to-open-in-ocean-county-mall\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean County consumers looking for Apple products will soon be able to find a wider selection of them at the Ocean County Mall. While not a corporate \u201cApple Store,\u201d a new retailer known as Simply Mac will open in the mall in \u201clate spring or early summer,\u201d according to Tara Melodick, director of marketing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[24,332,1117,100],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ocean-county","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-ocean-county-mall","tag-simply-mac","tag-toms-river"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/simple_mac.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-12q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}