Apple to shut some US stores again due to spike in COVID-19 cases

[ffr]

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

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Best source I could find w/o a pay lock or whatever you call it.

[sandensea]

1. The Cheetos of the world will never understand that basic truth about all this:

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]

2. Here's an un-paylocked {g} article that also lists the store closings

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-store-closing-coronavirus-164843581.html

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]

3. Scottsdale Fashion Square

is still closed after the looters two weeks ago.