{"id":26184,"date":"2020-06-19T15:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T22:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26184"},"modified":"2020-06-19T15:04:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T22:04:34","slug":"apple-closing-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26184","title":{"rendered":"APPLE CLOSING STORES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is closing 11 stores across the United States in areas where coronavirus cases are beginning to spike again.<\/p>\n<p>The company announced Friday that it will shutter the stores in Florida, Arizona, North Carolina and South Carolina that had recently re-opened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to current COVID-19 conditions in some of the communities we serve, we are temporarily closing stores in these areas,&#8221; the company said in a statement. &#8220;We take this step with an abundance of caution as we closely monitor the situation and we look forward to having our teams and customers back as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All four of the states where Apple is closing its stores have seen spikes in cases in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Apple had begun re-opening stores in the U.S. in May with health precautions including temperature checks and a mask requirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe response to COVID\u201119 is still ongoing, and we recognize that the road back will have its twists and turns,&#8221; Apple retail head Dierdre O&#8217;Brien said at the time, acknowledging stores may have to be closed again if cases rose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is closing 11 stores across&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26185,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26184\/revisions\/26185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}