Apple to shut some US stores again due to spike in COVID-19 cases
Source: MoneyControl
Apple Inc said on Friday it is temporarily shutting some stores again in Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, and North Carolina in the United States, as novel coronavirus cases continue to rise in the country.
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In a letter to Apple customers in May, Deirdre O'Brien, Apple's retail chief, had said the company would look at data on a local basis and that re-closings were a possibility based on that data.
"These are not decisions we rush into and a store opening in no way means that we won't take the preventative step of closing it again should local conditions warrant," O'Brien had said.
Read more: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/apple-to-shut-some-us-stores-again-due-to-spike-in-covid-19-cases-report-5431911.html
Best source I could find w/o a pay lock or whatever you call it.
sandensea
(21,664 posts)That if you put off stay home/non-essential business closure orders, you'll just end up having to impose them later - and for longer and more strictly.
As a wise man recently put it: "those leaders who choose the economy over public health, soon end up with neither."
progree
(10,918 posts)Florida
- Waterside Shops
- Coconut Point
North Carolina
- Southpark
- Northlake Mall
South Carolina
- Haywood Mall
Arizona
- Chandler Fashion Center
- Scottsdale Fashion Square
- Arrowhead
- SanTan Village
- Scottsdale Quarter
- La Encantada
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This announcement is being blamed in large part for the morning's stock market gains turning into losses.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/this-week-in-trumponomics-coronavirus-backsliding-begins-194418987.html
ChazII
(6,206 posts)is still closed after the looters two weeks ago.