{"id":165818,"date":"2020-03-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/urban-outfitters-closes-all-stores-globally-due-to-coronavirus\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:04:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:04:59","slug":"urban-outfitters-closes-all-stores-globally-due-to-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/urban-outfitters-closes-all-stores-globally-due-to-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Outfitters closes all stores globally due to Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/intelligence\/business-listing\/urban-outfitters\/urban-outfitters\/\">Urban Outfitters<\/a> is <strong>closing all of its stores globally until at least 28 March<\/strong> to help stem the spread of Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The US-based business will implement the closures across all of its bricks &amp; mortar brands, which include<strong> Anthropologie, Free People, Terrain and retail service Nuuly,<\/strong> with staff paid during the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>\"The global spread of COVID-19 is affecting every one of us,\" the company said in its statement. \"The <strong>safety and health of our communities, including our loyal customers and dedicated associates<\/strong>, is always of the utmost importance to us.\"<\/p>\n<p>Urban Outfitters has around 600 stores globally. I<strong>n the UK it operates around 30 stores <\/strong>with branches in key destinations in London, such as Oxford Street, Covent Garden and Westfield White City, as well as locations such as Brighton, Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool and Leeds.<\/p>\n<p>Its e-commerce business and the US rental subscription service Nuuly will continue to operate, while head office staff are being advised to work remotely where possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":137571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16042,6,10494],"tags":[5202,5707,12166,15032,19293,9843],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Outfitters closes all stores globally due to Coronavirus - TheIndustry.fashion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Urban Outfitters is closing all of its stores globally until at least 28 March to help stem the spread of Coronavirus. 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