The Google Store in Mountain View, California, has many things you might expect in tech retail: an alcove for repairs and support, a sofa-filled room for lectures and events, walls of white shelves lined with “grab-and-go” products, and a merch area loaded with branded mugs, T-shirts, and tchotchkes. But then, in the middle of all this commonness, the 5,840-square-foot flagship store has something altogether unexpected—a slew of wooden boxes seemingly stacked askew and sent snaking through the long space.