{"id":637368,"date":"2011-10-03T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/london-now-home-to-the-world-s-first-google-store\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T06:09:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T10:09:00","slug":"london-now-home-to-the-world-s-first-google-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/london-now-home-to-the-world-s-first-google-store\/","title":{"rendered":"London Now Home to the World\u2019s First Google Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first Google store opened quietly inside of a PC World in London on Monday morning as the tech giant tests the retail waters for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pilot \u201cChrome Zone\u201d shop is just one of many set to open worldwide in the coming weeks. The London shop-within-a-shop will remain open on Tottenham Court Road at least through Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the pilot shops prove successful, Google could make a larger splash in the retail market down the road. Rival Apple has already shown how successful brick-and-mortar stores can be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since the first Apple Store opened back in 2001, nearly 300 more have popped up around the globe, welcoming millions of visitors each year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2011\/10\/03\/google-opens-its-first-store-in-london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">FOX News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Flickr:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zapthedingbat\/3027927725\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ZaptheDingbat<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first Google store opened quietly inside of a PC World in London on Monday morning as the tech giant tests the retail waters for the first time. &nbsp; The pilot \u201cChrome Zone\u201d shop is just one of many set to open worldwide in the coming weeks. The London shop-within-a-shop will remain open on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897540,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637368\/revisions\/98897540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}