Microsoft to permanently close nearly all of its retail stores

Microsoft will shut down approximately all of its stores, it has announced.
The physical stores that are located opposite the world will be locked and the staff who served in them will instead operate either remotely or in Microsoft’s corporate offices, it said.
Microsoft will keep four of its stores open, in London, New York, Sydney and its home base of Redmond near Seattle. But they will be “reimagined”, the company stated in a declaration.
The company’s sales were increasingly moving online, across its different businesses, which includes the Xbox as well as Windows and hardware, it said.