Raspberry Pi Store opens in the UK

I think it looks awful. I wonder who it's supposed to appeal to - parents already educated on what the Pi is, or kids. The interesting bits are under glass! And if I were (say) 12, I wouldn't find those shelves of content interesting.

They ought to test that store style in a more 'normal' town/city, where there is less wealth, and there are no similar-looking Apple or Microsoft stores..

"I wonder who it's supposed to appeal to - parents already educated on what the Pi is, or kids."

Perhaps it is an attempt to try and return to the 1980's retail store where the microcomputers were all laid out for hands-on use (as well as for purchase), but with help available from the in-store assistants if needed ? I recall John Menzies in the 80's being swamped by the local school children at lunchtimes, but in the background you would also see the assistants talking to the older generation about office type software which was starting to emerge on those platforms to handle the accounts as well as word-processing and start replacing the one-use document storage and retrieval typewriters.

It may also be aimed at those buying a copy of the Mag Pi magazine but also those wanting to be able to pick up some of the hardware to be able to work along with the cover article without the need to wait for mail order.

Or it may be an attempt at computer literacy in the older generations who may benefit from sales assistance and after-sales assistance. There has been a huge push recently on improving computer literacy in the schools, but there is still a huge short-fall in the older generations.

I'm sure that there will be a write-up about it in a forthcoming Mag Pi issue.   

"I wonder who it's supposed to appeal to - parents already educated on what the Pi is, or kids."

Perhaps it is an attempt to try and return to the 1980's retail store where the microcomputers were all laid out for hands-on use (as well as for purchase), but with help available from the in-store assistants if needed ? I recall John Menzies in the 80's being swamped by the local school children at lunchtimes, but in the background you would also see the assistants talking to the older generation about office type software which was starting to emerge on those platforms to handle the accounts as well as word-processing and start replacing the one-use document storage and retrieval typewriters.

It may also be aimed at those buying a copy of the Mag Pi magazine but also those wanting to be able to pick up some of the hardware to be able to work along with the cover article without the need to wait for mail order.

Or it may be an attempt at computer literacy in the older generations who may benefit from sales assistance and after-sales assistance. There has been a huge push recently on improving computer literacy in the schools, but there is still a huge short-fall in the older generations.

I'm sure that there will be a write-up about it in a forthcoming Mag Pi issue.