Jet Propulsion Laboratory - JPL Mission History. Apple Stores: The Most Profitable Retail In America [INFOGRAPHIC] While online shopping is quickly dominating retail, there's no substitute for a visit to the Apple Store. From the distinct style to the bright-eyed employees with an encyclopedic knowledge of the brand's products, shopping at an Apple Store is an experience all its own. If you count yourself among the Apple fanboys and fangirls, you're in one of the biggest clubs in the world. As of July 2012, Apple has opened 363 retail hubs in 11 years, stores that shoppers have come to associate with the latest tech innovations. As part of the most valuable public company in the world, Apple stores make more money per square foot than any other U.S. retailer.
SEE ALSO: Which U.S. Tech Giant Is Growing Fastest in 2012? OnlineMBA created this graphic, which takes you behind the scenes of Apple's in-store retail operations. Thumbnail image courtesy of Flickr, Anna Fischer. INFOGRAPHIC: Generation Y, Employment And Facebook. Young people are using Facebook for personal over professional reasons, yet they are friending their coworkers. A new study by Millennial Branding, of over 50 million Facebook data points from Identified.com, uncovers that people aged 18 to 29 are inadvertently using their profiles as an extension of their professional personality, even though they are socializing with family and friends.
And 64 percent of so-called generation y fails to list their employer on their profiles, yet they add an average of 16 coworkers each to their friend group. “Gen y needs to be aware that what they publish online can come back to haunt them in the workplace. Gen y managers and co-workers have insight into their social lives, which could create an awkward workplace setting or even result in a termination,” says Dan Schawbel, Founder of Millennial Branding.
Identified.com is the largest professional database on Facebook. Other major findings in this study were: How the Millennial Generation Uses Mobile. Millennials — that is, American consumers between ages 18 and 34 — are a mobile generation. That much is clear from the infographic below. According to data collected by location-based ad network JiWire, Millennials own an average of 2.4 Internet-connected devices. Of those who connect to JiWire's free Wi-Fi networks, 62% percent are using smartphones and nearly a third are using tablets. Twenty-eight percent use location-based apps multiple times per day for locating stores (54%) and points of interests (46%), as well as connecting with others (40%) and checking in (32%). Surprisingly, there is one area where older generations are more active on mobile. Although Millennials feel more comfortable buying low-priced goods through their mobile devices than those over 35 (27% vs. 18%), older device owners in general felt more comfortable making purchases — particularly big-ticket items — by a 10% margin.
How do these findings align with your own mobile behavior? Cool Infographics / Millennials. Best generation ever?