*There's an eyebrow-raiser.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-07/20/fake-apple-stores
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"Even more curiously, the staff believed they genuinely were working for Apple. "I tried to imagine the training that they went to when they were hired," says the blogger, "in which they were pitched some big speech about how they were working for this innovative, global company – when really they're just filling the pockets of some shyster living in a prefab mansion outside the city by standing around a fake store disinterestedly selling what may or may not be actual Apple products that fell off the back of a truck somewhere." ...
(((Gee whiz... how disorienting... maybe Apple itself is a fake Apple store.)))