Photos: A look inside Microsoft's new retail flagship

Microsoft has taken the wraps off a new retail showroom at its Redmond headquarters.

The facility, opened earlier this month, serves a number of purposes: to show retail customers Microsoft-developed technologies that can be deployed in their stores, as well as steering them in how to best merchandise Microsoft products to consumers.

At the entrance to the showroom, shown here, a number of key technologies are on display including digital signage and electronic point of sale (Epos) systems.

According to Tim Gruver, director of technology and strategy for worldwide retail at Microsoft, RFID tracking has been deployed throughout the centre and the Epos units are capable of reading the track-and-trace tags, alongside conventional barcodes.

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