Inside Microsoft's "Retail Experience"

"It kinda looks like Circuit City plus a few Surface displays, Microsoft Tags and magical screen-equipped shopping carts (pictured above). Oh, and before you gather up your Zune pals for a road trip: the Experience Center is real, but the customers are fake -- the store isn't open to the public. Video is after the break."

It's a nice looking store, honestly.  Maybe this is the future of Microsoft?  If you think about it, once Apple started controlling their retail destiny, things picked up.  Maybe Microsoft is looking to control their image a bit?  Who knows.  I wouldn't mind seeing one of these pop up in my neighborhood; it would be interesting to see Microsoft's approach to retail.  Engadget has way more pictures and even a video of this mockup store.