Apple ‘aunties’ greeted with cheers at Shanghai store opening

Customers gather outside Shanghai's new Apple retail store before its opening on March 21, 2024. — AFP

SHANGHAI: Chinese Apple superfans jostled to enter the smartphone maker's newest store in Shanghai as it opened on Thursday night (March 21) – but they were upstaged by dozens of retirees eager to nab commemorative freebies.

Apple unveiled its new flagship location in the Chinese metropolis as worries mount over slumping sales in the world’s second largest economy.