After Apple last week re-closed nearly a dozen retail stores in the United States, local increases in coronavirus infections have now prompted the Cupertino company to shut down again eight of its retail locations in Kansas, Maryland, Virginia and Wisconsin.
In light of everything changing due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has forced so many to start working from home, Apple continues to evolve its own plans as it relates to its physical retail stores and offices located in the United States.
Apple is reportedly re-closing nearly a dozen additional retail locations in the United States, bringing its total store re-closures in the country to 91.
Apple has offered the ability to reserve a time slot in a given day to help with repairs and other service questions at its physical retail stores for years, and now it's expanding the same idea to help customers shop for products.
In the United States, the coronavirus continues to spread, in some states worse than others. And, in light of changing conditions, Apple has been forced to re-close some stores it had re-opened after initially closing them due to COVID-19 concerns.
Microsoft is permanently closing all of its physical stores worldwide after it was forced to close all its retail locations globally back in May due to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak.
The Apple Store closures continue as the spread of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease it causes, continues in the United States.
While Apple continues to monitor the situation regrading the novel coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease it causes, the company continues to make changes in regards to its physical retail stores.
Despite the fact the coronavirus pandemic is ongoing, some regions have handled it better than others. Which means businesses have felt it okay to reopen in some capacity or another. Apple is one such company, but now things have changed in about a handful of states in the United States.
As Apple continues to monitor the COVID-19 situations across the globe, especially as it relates to its physical retail stores, the company has decided that opening nearly 100 more shops throughout the United States and Canada is the right move.
Apple is reopening stores across the globe, following initial shutdowns in light of the global coronavirus pandemic. Now England and Northern Ireland are on the list.
Apple closed its retail stores all across the globe in early March. Since then, the company has been focused on reopening physical storefronts as soon as it deems it feasible.