T-Mobile ramps up its fight against the spread of coronavirus by closing more stores
Mike Sievert, Magenta's current COO and future CEO after John Legere's scheduled departure on April 30, detailed all the new preventive actions in a letter published late Monday evening, announcing among others that "about" 80 percent of store locations will be closed from March 17 to "at least" March 31.
T-Mobile is calling the 20 percent of retail locations set to remain open a "critical mass" providing "important service to customers", and in order to ensure said service will reach the vast majority of the "Un-carrier's" subscribers nationwide, these stores are apparently "distributed across the country and designed to be within a 30-minute drive for most customers in each market."
You can locate the nearest such store using T-Mo and Metro's handy online tools, as you'd normally do, but keep in mind schedules will also be reduced to only eight hours a day (10 am to 6 pm local time for "most stores"). In case you're worried about employee rights during this time of crisis, T-Mobile claims the stores set to remain open over the next two weeks will only be staffed with workers "willing to come in and support our customers." Everyone else can stay home and continue getting a paycheck.
