Google to Open Its Own Stores By Year's End?

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Posted February 16, 2013 at 12:46am by iClarified

Google is reportedly planning to open its own stores by the end of the year. Citing an 'extremely reliable source', 9to5Google says the company wants to have its first flagship Google Stores open for the holidays in major metropolitan areas.

The mission of the stores is to get new Google Nexus, Chrome, and especially upcoming products into the hands of prospective customers. Google feels right now that many potential customers need to get hands-on experience with its products before they are willing to purchase.

While Google already has Chrome store-within-a-store locations inside Best Buy, the tech giant decided it needed its own stores when looking at how to market Google Glass. Apparently, they feel customers will need to try Google's new glasses first hand in order to make a purchase.

Google to Open Its Own Stores By Year's End?

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justabrake - February 16, 2013 at 12:45pm

If there was a choice to get a job in apple or google 100% of the people would all choose google Not many products but they are very good to their employees

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m_thoroughbred - February 16, 2013 at 3:52pm

How do you know this to be true. Have you worked there? Know somebody that works there? If all your answers were no then you're just talking out of fandroidism.

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justabrake - February 16, 2013 at 5:31pm

well if you do a search you'll find @ glassdoor dot com they pick google being number 6 and apple number 34 to work for it's always been google as in the top ten company's to work for just google it

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fleb - February 16, 2013 at 3:38am

I feel android would be so much better if google only "made" the phones. Too many models and crap cheap ones have ruined android.

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Simon - February 16, 2013 at 3:18am

They don't have the product base required to make a retail store financially successful. They will run it at a loss just like Microsoft. They can try and copy apple, but that doesn't mean they will succeed.

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justabrake - February 16, 2013 at 2:22am

I'm sure google will put up an outstanding store and spare no expense

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m_thoroughbred - February 16, 2013 at 2:05am

Steve Jobs said "stealing is a form of flattering" google took that to heart

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