Just a few days ago, Apple was planning to reopen its retail stores outside of China on March 27, but the company seems to have changed its mind, saying via a notice on its US website that its brick-and-mortar locations will now remain closed until further notice.
Apple in an announcement yesterday detailed its official responses to the global coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, and one of the measures includes temporarily closing all its brick-and-mortar retails stores around the world, except for Greater China, until Friday, March 27.
"Today at Apple" sessions held by all of Apple's seventeen retail stores across Italy have been officially canceled do to the nationwide coronavirus COVID-19 crisis.
Apple will be temporarily shutting down its retail store located in the province of Bergamo in Italy. According to SetteBit, Apple is acting on orders from the Italian government which has experienced the worst spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Europe so far.
Apple has re-opened more than half of its retail stores in China after the coronavirus outbreak forced it to temporarily shut down all of the corporate offices and outlets earlier in February.
Apple’s next brick-and-mortar store in Italy, a 60 million people market, is opening this spring on Rome's Via del Corso, which is the famous shopping street in the heart of the city.
Apple is scheduled to open a brand new brick-and-mortar store in Kawasaki, Japan this coming Saturday, December 14, marking its tenth store opening in the 127 million people country.
The next time you order something from Apple for in-store pickup using their official shopping app for iPhone and iPad, you'll be able to add a corresponding pass directly to the Wallet app.
Apple announced today that new art-based Today at Apple augmented reality experiences are now available in Apple Stores around the world, featuring works by leading contemporary artists, curated in partnership with New York's New Museum.
Apple should open the first Mexican flagship store in September as part of its Latin American retail push, joining the company's existing smaller store in the country which opened in September 2016 at Mexico’s Centro upmarket Santa Fe mall.
Apple today previewed its upcoming retail store at the renovated Carnegie Library in Washington, D.C. Scheduled to open this Saturday, May 11 at 10am local time, it restores the Beaux-Arts style building, located in Mount Vernon Square, transforming its original circulation desk along with skylight area into a double-height atrium and the Forum—in Apple talk, a gathering space for shoppers where free Today at Apple sessions take place.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and Matthew Townsend have conducted interviews with several current and former retail employees at Apple who claim that the iPhone maker's vaunted brick-and-mortar stores have become less shopping-friendly in recent years.