Apple is reopening a bunch of stores in the US and Canada… again

Enlarge / Customers and staff in an Apple Store mid-pandemic. (credit: Apple)

Apple is reopening 70 more stores in the United States and Canada, after an ongoing back-and-forth that saw the company closing stores due to the COVID-19 pandemic, then starting to reopen them, then closing them again because of the widespread protests and rioting that occurred after the death of George Floyd.

It's been an unprecedented bit of chaos for Apple's retail efforts as customers, governments, and workers focused on more critical concerns than iPhones and MacBooks. The 70 stores opening over the course of this week include locations in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ontario, Pennsylvania, and Quebec.

Apple retail and HR head Deirdre O'Brien wrote this note to staff, as quoted in 9to5Mac:

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