Due to Covid-19, Apple Closes Nearly a Fifth of Its Retail Stores (9to5mac.com) 43
"New COVID-19 restrictions and worsening outbreaks have compelled Apple to temporarily close nearly one fifth of its retail stores during one of the busiest shopping weeks of the holiday season," reports 9to5Mac.
401 of Apple's 509 locations worldwide remain open as of publication. Most open locations in the US are limited to Express storefront pickup of online orders and Genius Support. Walk-in shopping and customers without an appointment are not accepted at Express locations.
The site also notes that Apple recently re-closed all 18 of its stores across Germany and the Netherlands. And the Verge confirms more store closings in the U.S. and around the world: Every California store, all four in Tennessee, all three in Utah, all four in Minnesota, two in Oklahoma, and the stores in Portland, Oregon; Anchorage, Alaska; Omaha, Nebraska; and Albuquerque, New Mexico are all closed this upcoming week — as well as the 16 additional stores in the U.K., Mexico and Brazil starting tomorrow, December 20th. It's not hard to guess why the stores are reclosing, particularly in California where COVID-19 saw its four deadliest days yet in a row last week as part of an ongoing surge, and in London where Prime Minister Boris Johnson has just put the city in emergency lockdown starting midnight.
The site also notes that Apple recently re-closed all 18 of its stores across Germany and the Netherlands. And the Verge confirms more store closings in the U.S. and around the world: Every California store, all four in Tennessee, all three in Utah, all four in Minnesota, two in Oklahoma, and the stores in Portland, Oregon; Anchorage, Alaska; Omaha, Nebraska; and Albuquerque, New Mexico are all closed this upcoming week — as well as the 16 additional stores in the U.K., Mexico and Brazil starting tomorrow, December 20th. It's not hard to guess why the stores are reclosing, particularly in California where COVID-19 saw its four deadliest days yet in a row last week as part of an ongoing surge, and in London where Prime Minister Boris Johnson has just put the city in emergency lockdown starting midnight.
Re: Hardly essential are they? (Score:2)
That is like saying I should feel bad for ... attention: hyperbole! ... all the concentration camp wardens that suddenly were out of a job. ;)
There has to be a point where "I had no choice! There were no other jobs!" doesn't count anymore. :)
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If you are asking sales clerks for technical advice, you are doing it wrong.
Their job is to fetch products from the storeroom and swipe the credit card.
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"Apple genius" -- archetypal contronym
Apple users care (Score:2)
What is special about Apple ? (Score:5, Informative)
Many non essential retail shops have been shut.
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iPlacebo: We need the Reality Distortion Field to cure the 'Rona.
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Many non essential retail shops have been shut.
Many non-essential retail shops aren't related to news for nerds.
Apple? (Score:3)
"Apple recently re-closed all 18 of its stores across Germany "
The govt closed _all_ stores. Apple had no say whatsoever in this.
Re: Apple? (Score:2)
Uuum, what?
I'm as much for burning all things i and putting their usees in a mental hospital as the next computer-savvy guy, but come on, if your store is already hardly worth the cost, and this breaks the camel's back, you close it down!
Besides: OMGJERBS is such an idiotic beggar mindset anyway. It's about wealth! Nobody in the history of humankind would choose working at an A. store over doing the actually most meaningful thing to him. And what for does an A.store need employees anyway? A walk-in vending
You act loke they had a choice in Gemany. (Score:4, Informative)
We're in lockdown. Apple stores are anything but essential. So they are not allowed to stay open. I know big corporations think they are beyond the law, but there are actually cops going around, making sure they are closed, so they did not exactly have a choice.
They could try food delivery for 20EUR shakes of green juice ... make that 50EUR, because otherwise it's clearly not a good product .. or sell actual paper iBooks for 500EUR ... to stay open. ;)
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Are stores like T-Mobile open? Just wondering if there is a way for someone to get phone & Internet if they don't already have it, as those are essential.
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Are stores like T-Mobile open?
I live in a minor city in southwestern Germany. I just googled for the Deutsche Telekom shops here . . . and all three are tagged as "Temporarily Closed".
But, bizarrely, while walking to the supermarket since the full metal lockdown, I noticed that the Lindt Chocolate store on the main market square, that usually serves tourists, was open.
I guess that they can squeak through the lockdown by claiming that chocolate is "essential foodstuffs".
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Just wondering if there is a way for someone to get phone & Internet if they don't already have it
The only people who can't get a phone and internet if they don't already have phone and internet are tourists and they are banned too. A normal person would just ask a friend, family or neighbour for help to order them something they need.
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How are you going to do that while inside your home without a phone??
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Typically people will walk to their front door, open it, then walk to their neighbours, or catch a train to their friend, or do whatever a normal functioning person with two legs would do. Or a functioning person without legs and a wheel chair.
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If Apple stores are closed then where will Apple zombies go for their stupidity transfusion?
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macrumors.com?
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If Apple stores are closed then where will Apple zombies go for their stupidity transfusion?
http://store.apple.com/ [apple.com]
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OMG Apple!!! (Score:2)
80% of Apple stores remain open during the pandemic!!!
Quick .. stop the presses.
THIS IS NEWS!!!
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Apple is converting its remaining 80% of stores to emergency zombie wards for any customers not already infected with covid.
We're gonna see a lock down in January (Score:1)
It's frustrating because the experts and medical community are all talking about it and nobody's listening. The GOP has agreed to a measly $600 stimulus and only that because it was hurting them in the Georgia Senate Run offs and they want want to hold the Senate so they can spend the next 4 years causing trying to hurt the c
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The GOP isn't going to run Romney in 2024. If for no other reason than he's not horrible. He seems to believe in the constitution and democracy. But, more importantly, he voted guilty during Trump's impeachment. He's the senator from Utah and never moving up in the world.
Barn Door (Score:2)
Due to Covid-19, Apple Closes Nearly a Fifth of Its Retail Stores
Being that the pandemic has been around for a year, putting it into a computing context, that's like closing an application before saving your data.
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It's like closing the barn door when the horse is halfway out.
But the other 80% (Score:1)
The other 80% of Apple stores should be closed for acute vanity aggravated by chronic stupidity.
Open in Indiana (Score:2)