The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Macy’s Inc. said on Tuesday it will temporarily shorten its store hours on some days at all of its stores for the rest of January, as Covid-19 cases continue to surge across the United States.
It reduced store hours to 11 am to 8 pm from Monday to Thursday, compared with 10 am to 9 pm earlier, but they remain unchanged from Friday to Sunday, the company said in a statement.
Walmart, which has more than 4,700 US locations, temporarily shut almost 60 stores in Covid-19 hotspots in December to sanitise them against the virus.
The United States reported almost a million new coronavirus infections on Monday, with the fast-spreading Omicron variant estimated to account for 95.4 percent of cases as of Jan. 1.
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By Ananya Mariam Rajesh; Editor: Devika Syamnath
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