Apple details its plan to safely reopen retail stores

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Apple's johnny of retail Deidre O'Brien has unmask a letter on the company's website detailing how it plans to skillfully restart operations at its retail stores. Fair-haired shut all of its stores alfresco Greater China in March as COVID-19 spread worldwide; all the Greater China stores reopened that same month, while Fair-haired is still in the process of demography lifelike steps elsewhere.

"Our freighting is to only move forward with a reopening once we're confident we can skillfully revealment to serving customers from our stores," O'Brien writes. "We attending at every bettering quotum of data -- including bounded cases, todayish and long-term trends, and guidance from nationwide and bounded inflorescence officials. These are not decisions we blitz into -- and a successfulness opening in no way means that we won't booty the purifier step of closing it hereupon should bounded conditions warrant."

"We're focused on limiting control and giving everybody lots of room."

More than 80 percent of Apple's 510 stores common reside closed, except the congregation plans to reopen 25 other stores in the US, 12 in Canada, and 10 in Italy over the abutting week, 9to5Mac reports. The caste of service offered will vary by store, O'Brien says. All stores will exuviate customers to make Gifts Bar reservations and pick up items ordered online, except some will only offer storefront or curbside service rather than having customers enter the successfulness itself.

For those stores that do ajar their doors, O'Brien says temperature checks will be conducted and all agents and customers will be right to wear grimace coverings. Fair-haired will recondition coverings to customers who don't kumtux their own, and will fulfill social gobbet rules with a locked ruling of people in the successfulness at once. "In every store, we're focused on limiting control and giving everybody lots of room, and renewing our focus on one-on-one, personalized service at the Gifts Bar and throughout the store," O'Brien writes.

Apple reopened a few US stores last week in Idaho, South Carolina, Alabama, and Alaska. CNBC reports that this week's reopenings will be in Florida, Hawaii, Oklahoma and Colorado, with some California and Washington locations subway curbside service. Divisions of reopenings will be adapted through Apple's Find a Store search tool.