9to5Mac:
The 1 Infinite Loop Apple Store is wide but small so you won’t find iPhone or Mac repairs or training workshops taking place, but you can buy headphones, cases, and other accessories too. Products are on display to try for yourself and Apple Store staff is just as helpful as other Apple Stores.
The real reason to visit this store, of course, is the unique Apple gear that you can buy here and nowhere else. This includes shirts, coffee mugs, thermal water bottles, notebooks, and more. The merchandise changes from time to time, but this is what you can expect to find if you visit anytime soon.
Whenever I went to San Francisco for Macworld Expo, I always tried to arrange a trip to the Apple Employee Store to get t-shirts or knick-knacks you can’t find anywhere else.
I was going to say that I’ve always hankered for a branded polo shirt, but one or two of those black t-shirts caught my eye, too.
One glaring omission I can see is the lack of “Swift” merchandise–that would sell like hotcakes. Developers love the Swift logo.
Do enough devs actually visit that store to justify such items? I imagine the attendance skews far more towards “tourists.”
No sign of their business card holders anymore eh? Glad I snapped up a couple a few years back. Classy pieces.
Years ago, all the product labels had “secret” codes on them that told you how much the Apple employee price was for the same item. They were really easy to decipher, though: Just change the “X” between the digits to a decimal point and remove the leading letters. So a Mac with a listed retail price of $1995.00 might have a code in the lower right corner like AML1197X00, which would be $1197.00. Using that you could figure out what the employee discount on the item was (in this example case, 40%).