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Bed Bugs Shut Down Niketown
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Jaya Saxena
Published Sep 18, 2010
Modified Sep 19, 2010
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Jaya Saxena
Published Sep 18, 2010
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Just when you thought summer was winding down and the bloodsucking critters would start dying off in the cold, bed bugs strike again. This time, they're hitting the city's athletes. Nike's flagship store Niketown has been "proactively closed" after bed bugs were discovered there.
Nike said in a statement, "Our primary concern is the well being of our consumers and sales associates. We are taking all proper steps to eradicate the problem and we expect the store to reopen shortly." We're not actually sure how they'll go about doing that, but we guess some local laundromat is about to get paaaaaid.
Niketown now joins the ranks of Hollister, Abercrombie & Fitch, Victoria's Secret, Google, AMC Empire 25, the Manhattan DA's office and the Roosevelt Houses for bed bug infestations. Who's next? That Old Navy on 6th Avenue has been looking kind of shabby...
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