Chennai will have mega Reliance Digital store

Chennai, Nov 7 (UNI) Chennai city will have a mega Reliance Digital store, with a 20,000 sq ft area, in the next five to six months.

Reliance Digital President and Chief Executive Ajay Baijal told reporters here today at the launch of its ninth iStore, its first outlet in Tamil Nadu featuing exclusive Apple's innovative products that the company had been looking around the arterial Mount road area for setting up of its first Digital store.

It would be the eighth store, including its Digital Store in Gurgaon which was India's largest with a 45,000 sq ft space and would house a wide range of products be it consumer goods, electronics, audio, home theatres, MP3 players, digital cams, laptops, branded computers of various makes among others.

''There will be about 5,000 products under one roof that will provide a new shopping experience for the people of Chennai,'' Mr Ajay said.

About the iStore, which was launched today, he said it was set up by Reliance Digital's IT arm the Reliance Retail.

It would house the entire range of apple products for the professionals and consumer segements like the new MacBook family that features powerful graphics processoers, iMac consumer desktop computers, iPhone, Mac Pro and the new iPod fmaily as well as the entire suite of Mac software, along with over 500 accessories and peripherals complementing Apple products.

''This is the ninth store in India after its launch in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Jaipur, Ludhiana, Ahmedabad, Vadodara and two in Bangalore. We are planning to increase it to 55 iStores in the next two years, of which Chennai will get one more store,'' Mr Ajay added.

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