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Bergdorf Goodman: Bedbug Detecting Dog Just A Precaution
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John Del Signore
Published Aug 13, 2010
Modified Aug 13, 2010
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Bedbugs have infested some major name-brand stores in NYC this summer, including Hollister, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Victoria's Secret. Then they went after the bookworms at the NYPL! And now Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue has a bedbug-sniffing beagle roaming the aisles. This should make for a cute Metropolitan Diary entry about a pearl-clutching "woman of a certain age" discovering bedbugs' preference for blue blood, but the luxury department store insists there is nothing to see here, folks. This is just a preemptive strike! No bed bugs here. Please continue shopping.
"We haven’t had any reported cases of bed bugs, but we’ve decided to be on the safe side. It’s something our customers care about," Ginger Reeder, corporate spokeswoman for the Neiman Marcus Group, tells Womens Wear Daily. Reeder says the dogs are patrolling on the regular after the store closes at night, and the company is also closely monitoring their distribution centers. Reeder tells the Daily News, "The anxiety level is clearly high in New York. It seemed important to go the extra mile."
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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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