If you’re going back to work in a store or if you know locations that are opening, please post.
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@1utn+14NCBd7v you are making the other person's point for them. AT&t doesn't more corporate stores and more of them are open because they have less reseller stores. T-Mobile and Sprint depending on their indirect stored. As is Verizon. do Union talk needs to stop and so does the denial. Corporate stores will close corporate stores cost too much. AT&t needs to have their corporate stores open because they don't have a large indirect Network like the others do. AT&t is in financial ruins. Verizon is looking at T-Mobile and trying to emulate their business model and they've been doing it for years AT&t is not doing well. if you are a retail employee who got redeployed expect to do that job much longer than you can imagine. stores will not reopen until June that's been publicly stated Verizon has said they're doing a National standard. That means slowly they will start increasing hours. Right now they have a very skeleton crew that are only working a few days a week and nowhere close to the 40 hours. those employees will slowly work more hours adding more employees working at the same time and the stores will slowly increase hours. those of you at home are not going to be called back if they invested into a laptop and training. Wake up and stop arguing the point denial is only going to lead to your disappointment
Verizon does not have more corporate stores then AT&T. AT&T has 2300 and we have 1,700. 90 percent of AT&T locations are open. Verizon is being more cautious and evaluating long term if some of those deployed to customer service will become permanent or extended for longer periods of time.
People need to understand the landscape of wireless in retail. Everyone is touting statistics on the number of stores opened by the competition. Verizon has more corporate stores. 90% of T-Mobile stores run by another company that's about 80% for Sprint. The corporation doesn't have liability when the stores are run by a third party. Most of Verizon's resellers are open. Do you see what's happening here?
The current plans for “the new Verizon normal” are June 8th. Many stores are reopening this week. This virus is going to get worse because people won’t wear a mask and are tired of distancing. Us government is tired of it (pres chump). Many more will be infected and die. Enjoy your restaurant, beaches and protests, you are k–ling people. Layoffs WILL come.
I don’t agree if Verizon wants a national consistent response bringing retail back. It should be gradual so that if things bubble up again stores don’t all have to shut down at once. By the end of May it is projected that most states will open up all retail stores and malls. As of today 90% of TMO, Sprint and ATT stores are open ....90%! WTF is Verizon waiting for ? I think the person who said store closings and layoffs are coming is correct. Verizon knows the longer they keep people shopping online and calling customer service the need for retail stores will evaporate.
From what I hear regarding corporate stores there will be a national consistent response to reopen. They're still sending people redeployment messages. the training for customer care has gone from one day to a week. this has to mean there is no plan to bring everybody back to retail quickly.
IDK it is very concerning that central and north Florida have opened retail back up today but zero Verizon corporate locations participated. We are talking a few dozen locations that qualified to open but did not. That is not a positive sign for corporate retail. Permanent store closings, conversions
and layoffs are coming.