Marketing and technology analysis firm Asymco has extrapolated from retail data from US chains to reveal that Apple isn't just the top seller per square foot among US retailers, it outsells the average brick-and-mortar outlet 17 times over. The sales-per-square-foot annual measurement, long the leading metric of retail profitability, shows Apple with an average of $5,626 in sales per square foot, compared to an average of $330 for US mall stores.