07.03.2013 18:35 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple Store boosts revenues for entire shopping district

There's an old saying that "A rising tide lifts all boats," but nowhere has the truth of that saying been demonstrated more than in Berkeley, Calif., where the opening of the Fourth Street Apple Store in 2011 quadrupled sales tax revenues for the district in which the store is located. That quadrupling is just in the sales tax category in which the Apple Store is placed -- "furniture and appliances" -- but the impact of the opening is apparent even when all of the various categories are shown together. As pointed out on ifoAppleStore.com, it appears that the Apple Store was placed into that category specifically to disguise its contribution to overall tax revenues. The website did a q

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