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    AT&T Opens NYC ‘Store of the Future’ in Time for the Holidays

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    Michelle Maisto
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    November 27, 2013
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      1AT&T Opens NYC ‘Store of the Future’ in Time for the Holidays

      1 - AT&T Opens NYC 'Store of the Future' in Time for the Holidays

      by Michelle Maisto

      2AT&T ‘Reinventing’ Retail Store Design

      2 - AT&T 'Reinventing' Retail Store Design

      AT&T has brought its new retail concept to New York, with the Thanksgiving-week opening of a store at 250 W. 57th Street in Manhattan. It’s the 13th store of its kind, with many more to come, says AT&T.

      3Focused on Customer Experience

      3 - Focused on Customer Experience

      Traditionally, customers have been greeted with giant posters of the most popular phones. In the new stores, phones aren’t billed higher than other devices—they’re not even the first things customers see. The emphasis is on a warm, casual environment in which users can touch everything and wander everywhere.

      4Goodbye to Registers

      4 - Goodbye to Registers

      “It’s all walking, it’s all about the experience,” said Haris Jamal, a retail sales manager with AT&T’s Retail & Small Business division, pointing out that formal registers have been replaced with tablets that sales representatives can carry around, leaving no spaces off limits. In the corner behind, customers can sit down one-on-one with a sales representative.

      5Interconnected Zones

      5 - Interconnected Zones

      The new AT&T stores feature three zones: a Connected Experience Zone, Community Zone and Explore Zone. More obvious to customers may be that things are simply grouped—all the iPhones, for example—in ways that make sense to interact with them. This iPhone table also offers a chart for comparing the features of the three available models.

      6Listen Up: Beats Audio

      6 - Listen Up: Beats Audio

      AT&T has a partnership with Beats Audio, which makes a wide variety of stand-alone speakers and headsets. At a table of speakers, customers can compare sounds, and at this wall they can compare headsets, plugging them into the phone provided (all of which are “live,” connected phones) or their own phone.

      7AT&T Digital Life

      7 - AT&T Digital Life

      The store includes a demo of Digital Life, AT&T’s home security solution, that includes using a tablet to do thinks like lock the door on the wall, change the thermostat and look through the wall-mounted camera.

      8Small Business Friendly

      8 - Small Business Friendly

      On a table with solutions geared toward small businesses or just business-minded consumers, the smartphone payment solution Square is on display, with the suggestion that it’s great for yard sales and bake sales.

      9Presenting Ideas

      9 - Presenting Ideas

      This office setup shows how a tablet with a keyboard accessory could be all the equipment that some users need.

      10Motorola Moto X

      10 - Motorola Moto X

      Consumers can go online to view all the ways to customize their Moto X. Or, they can see them first-hand at the new AT&T store.

      11Samsung Galaxy Gear

      11 - Samsung Galaxy Gear

      Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatches are displayed like lollipops, waiting to be snatched up.

      12Color-Coded for Shopping Ease

      12 - Color-Coded for Shopping Ease

      Colored plastic pieces on the end of informational placards make shopping more efficient at a glance, as they’re colored-coded to the operating systems the phones run. Green, for example, is for Android phones, blue is for Windows Phone and black is for BlackBerry.

      13Miroir Pico Pocket Projector

      13 - Miroir Pico Pocket Projector

      Toy cars create the mood of a drive-in in a display for the Miroir Pico Pocket Projector. The projector connects to an Android phone via an HDMI cord and can project images as large as 60 inches. AT&T is also happy to suggest a mobile speaker to pair with it. AT&T wants to be more than a “wireless pipe” to consumers, Current Analysis analyst Avi Greengart told eWEEK. “They want a deeper relationship.”

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