{"id":12955,"date":"2020-05-18T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/05\/18\/apple-details-its-plan-to-safely-reopen-retail-stores\/"},"modified":"2020-05-18T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T15:32:00","slug":"apple-details-its-plan-to-safely-reopen-retail-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/18\/apple-details-its-plan-to-safely-reopen-retail-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple details its plan to safely reopen retail stores"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge<\/small><\/p>\n

Apple’s head of retail Deidre O’Brien has posted a letter on the company’s website detailing how it plans to safely restart operations at its retail stores. Apple shut all of its stores outside Greater China in March as COVID-19 spread worldwide; all the Greater China stores reopened that same month, while Apple is still in the process of taking careful steps elsewhere.<\/p>\n

“Our commitment is to only move forward with a reopening once we’re confident we can safely return to serving customers from our stores,” O’Brien writes. “We look at every available piece of data — including local cases, near and long\u2011term trends, and guidance from national and local health officials. 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.”<\/p>\n

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