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The Google Store Omotesando should unfastened this summertime successful Japan.
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Google has announced it will unfastened a flagship store successful Tokyo, Japan. The Google Store Omotesando will beryllium nan company's first unit shop extracurricular nan US, for nan astir part.
Visitors to nan shop "can spot and acquisition a wide scope of Google products and partner brands, including Google Pixel smartphones, Google Nest products, Google Fitbit devices, and accessories." They will besides beryllium capable to effort retired Google's latest "AI experiences" and spot Google services successful action.
Plus, overmuch for illustration Apple's Genius Bar, nan Google Store will person unit who tin execute on-site Google Pixel repairs, thief pinch setup, and troubleshoot. There will besides beryllium in-store workshops erstwhile the Omotesando shop opens this summer. According to Google, nan determination to unfastened a shop successful Tokyo mirrors erstwhile nan institution opened its first world agency successful Japan.
Yes, technically, this is Google's first full-on shop extracurricular nan US. In Canada, Google offers store-within-a-store shops astatine immoderate Best Buy locations. These Google Shops connection customers nan chance to trial retired products successful personification and study much astir nan company's offerings — ideally pinch Google experts alternatively than a wide income associate. In 2015, nan institution opened a Google Shop wrong Currys, a British electronics retailer, successful London, which has since shuttered.
Microsoft went large pinch unit stores earlier wide closures
Google isn't nan first integer tech elephantine to unfastened brick-and-mortar stores worldwide, arsenic Apple has. In 2009, Microsoft opened its first 2 beingness stores alongside nan motorboat of Windows 7. Soon, much stores followed, and 2 years later, nan institution announced plans to open 75 much stores complete 3 years.
Throughout nan 2010s, Microsoft opened stores successful awesome world cities for illustration Sydney and London. Then nan COVID-19 pandemic came, followed by nan closure of almost each of its shops. Today, there's conscionable a "Microsoft Experience Center" successful New York City and a "Microsoft Visitor Center" successful Redmond, Virginia.
