{"id":269829,"date":"2021-06-08T22:34:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T19:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/microsoft-is-opening-retail-experience-centers-a-year-after-closing-its-stores-review-geek\/"},"modified":"2021-06-08T22:34:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T19:34:15","slug":"microsoft-is-opening-retail-experience-centers-a-year-after-closing-its-stores-review-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/microsoft-is-opening-retail-experience-centers-a-year-after-closing-its-stores-review-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"#Microsoft Is Opening Retail Experience Centers\u2014a Year After Closing Its Stores \u2013 Review Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Microsoft Is Opening Retail Experience Centers\u2014a Year After Closing Its Stores \u2013 Review Geek”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Shortly after shutting its retail store doors during the global pandemic, Microsoft confirmed it would permanently close almost all of its stores back in June\u00a02020. However, now just shy of a year later, Microsoft is getting back into the physical retail store game<\/a> and will reopen three of its original Experience Centers.<\/p>\n

Basically, Microsoft will go back to selling products at actual brick-and-mortar stores. The company will call them \u201cMicrosoft Experience Centers\u201d and will re-open the three bigger stores it closed last year in London, New York City, and Sydney.<\/p>\n

Specific Microsoft products will hit shelves as early as next month on July 1st, but due to the ongoing global chip shortage, at first, only select items will be available to buy.<\/p>\n

Our own Josh Hendrickson once worked at a Microsoft store, and he knows first-hand the benefit of getting physical products into customers\u2019 hands. So while popular big-ticket items like the Xbox Series<\/a> X \/ S will not be available, at least not initially, you can expect to find them at a later date. Microsoft\u2019s own head of retail, Travis Walter, explained that its\u00a0\u201cMicrosoft Experience Centers were created to provide customers a way to experience products in person.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that these are the three main specialty stores Microsoft talked about keeping during the closure last year. There won\u2019t be online ordering or pick-ups at the store, so it\u2019s not a complete return to physical stores, but it\u2019s a good first step. Who knows, if all goes well, maybe we\u2019ll see more Microsoft retail shops open later this year.<\/p>\n

via: The Verge<\/a><\/small>\n<\/div>\n