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Apple will require face masks and temperature checks as stores reopen

Apple published a detailed plan of how they intend to reopen their U.S. stores. Yahoo Finance’s Dan Howley shares the details.

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JULIE HYMAN: [INAUDIBLE] "On the Move" on Yahoo Finance. I'm Julie Hyman, and we continue to see stocks rally. Among them, Apple shares up a little better than 2% today. The company announcing it is reopening about 25 stores in the US. It's also reopening some stores around the world. Dan Howley, what is this trajectory look like for Apple-- these reopenings

DAN HOWLEY: Yeah, it's going to be a slow reopening. On digital, Brian, the head of Apple's retail operations basically said we're going to be opening some stores in some states where lockdown orders have been lifted. They have opened a few stores in the US. They're also going to be opening some in Canada and Europe. Basically what they're going to be doing is if they can't open a physical store, they're going to have curbside pickup where customers will go grab goods they've ordered. If you can physically go into the store, they will require you to wear a mask, as well as employees.

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They will offer you a mask if you don't have one with you, do temperature checks. And then they're going to try to space everyone out and have more one-on-one kind of attention from the Genius Bar. So it's going to be a much leaner kind of Apple store experience, but they are going to get that back up and running. And it is important for things like AppleCare, which they're able to sell in person-- a little more easy, I guess, when people pick up physical devices.

JULIE HYMAN: Yes, indeed. And I'm sure we'll be seeing more retailers make these kinds of announcements, although Apple's-- on the office front, its policies have been a little bit different than some of its competitors. Dan, thank you very much.