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Come look inside Google's first Pixel store with us before it opens tomorrow
Spoiler: They sell lots of Google stuff
Google has been in the hardware game for some time now, but it has yet to establish a physical presence in retail to compete with Apple outside of a handful of pop-up stores. That changes tomorrow, as the company is finally opening its first storefront in New York City. If you've been looking to pick up a brand-new Pixel phone — or just a Google-branded basketball — all you'll need to do is head to Chelsea.
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- Like many of you presumed from the existence of the country picker page, this is a feature and not a fluke. A small post from +GoogleStore officially announced yesterday that you can now "send a device across the globe." So Google is marketing this as a way to gift or send items to people you know who live overseas, but we all know it will most likely be used by people outside the US who want to make purchases on the US Google Store and use a friend or forwarding address to bring it over to them. Nevertheless, it's an awesome change. Thanks, +David Schmidt!
I'm 99% sure I shouldn't be writing this article because it might be a bug and it's one I personally, really, really, really do not want Google to fix. But on the off-chance that it is indeed a new feature and for the sake of journalistic integrity (and at the expense of my own benefit), I'm going to tell you that something has changed in the Google Store recently and it's definitely for the better: you can now make purchases in any country's Google Store*.