Google Is Poised To Open Its First Permanent Retail Store (adage.com)

Google is planning to open a 14,000 square-foot retail store in Chicago's Fulton Market district, according to local media reports from Crain's Chicago Business and Chicago Tribune. While Google has opened pop-up stores in the past, this would be its first permanent location. Ad Age reports: In 2015, Google abandoned plans to open a store in New York City, after spending $6 million renovating the 131 Greene St. location, Crain's New York Business reported at the time. The Chicago store would give Google a bricks-and-mortar location to show off its expanding line of products, including Pixel phones, Daydream VR headsets, Nest products and more. The location Google is eyeing in Chicago is just a few blocks from Google's Midwest headquarters. The Fulton Market neighborhood, part of Chicago's West Loop, is formerly a meatpacking district. It has been transformed in recent years and is now home to some of Chicago's hottest restaurants. The report notes that there's still a future in brick-and-mortar locations, citing Amazon's interest in Whole Foods and the fact that retail stores have been a key part of Apple's strategy. Microsoft operates stores in 35 states.

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Ohhh Google Getting Panicky

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Googles seem to be finally feeling the pinch after being a pack of abusive SJW dick brains and are needing to diversify business interests as Google search (use duckduckgo.com it is better) comes under pressure, as is Youtube (which still doesn't generate a profit after being buried in billions of debt, hence the need to stop paying as many youtubers as possible for what ever reasons they can come up with). Google is extremely tightly tied to it's user, it basically is the people's bitch, hence the need for all that marketing they spent millions on, about the power they had over the people, all a marketing lie.

After being so abusive, they are now forced to find ways to diversify their income base, but how can you sell products that compete with all those people paying for ads. Seriously why would you spend your ad money with Google, when they will use it to basically drive your product off the market (you see where this is going).

Google has become too big, not too fail, over weight and bloated, it is bound to collapse, how much, remains to be seen but there will be a whole lot more Google diversification coming up.