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Google opens its first "retail shop" in London to sell Chromebooks
Ricardo Trejo
What do Apple, Microsoft, and Google all have in common? Apparently, they’re all proud owners of retail stores! Well, actually Google seems to just be testing the waters; they’ve opened up a “Chrome Zone” within a PC World store in hopes to raise public awareness of their laptop/netbook frankenstein creation; the Chromebook.
It remains to be seen if Google plans to open like-stores internationally across the pond, as their blog points this to being only a UK thing at the moment:
“Many things in life, like football and rock music, are best experienced in person. Chromebooks are no exception.
So this week in London, we opened our first Chromebook experience inside a retail store. The brand new Chrome Zone is located inside the PC World / Currys superstore on Tottenham Court Road. Spend time with a Chromebook, discover cool web apps and chat with our Chrome specialists.
We’ll be opening Chrome Zones in additional locations in the United Kingdom over the next few months, so stay tuned. If you’re in London, do drop by and say hello!”
Pretty strange to hear about Google just setting up a physical shop out of no where like this — especially since they only have one product to sell, and even then it’s not much of a hot-ticket in terms of new technology or what-not.
But if you’re a Londoner and happen to find yourself in Tottenham Court Rd. and inside the PC world store, share with us your experience of the “Chrome Zone” and whether or not you’d time with one of the machines makes you believer.
