Another Manhattan store has been shut down because of a bedbug infestation! The Abercrombie & Fitch at the South Street Seaport — which, it should be noted, is a corporate cousin of the Hollister store in Soho that was invaded by bedbugs earlier this week — has closed its doors to deal with what it is delicately calling "a similar problem." This coincidence has got the Ohio-based company a little freaked out: "Abercrombie chairman and CEO Michael S. Jeffries asked for 'leadership and guidance' on how best to address the problem." But he was rebuffed by the DOH, a spokeswoman for which said, "It is the responsibility of companies to handle bed bugs on their own." No more handouts of exterminators' business cards for you, Abercrombie!
More importantly, one has to wonder what the source of this problem is. Could it be a warehouse issue? A reality of moving suburbia into urban settings? Or is someone taking revenge on the Abercrombie company's New York outposts — an anti-mall zealot, an anti-male-nipples crusader, a person who had a really bad reaction to hearing LFO's "Summer Girls" while on line at Duane Reade?
Which store could be next? Because you can never be too sure, the WSJ offers some important dressing-room tips:
# Check behind dressing room mirrors and any other crevices where bed bugs could hide – even wall sockets – before trying on clothing.
# Hang your clothes on hooks, rather than lay them across cushioned seats in dressing rooms or on the carpeted floor as these are safe and popular havens for bed bugs.
Imagine if these things were unleashed in Daffy's? Oh God, now I'm itching all over.
that fucking song makes me sick and now I'm itching all over
Abercrombie & ITCH!
all I wanted was a pair of floral boardshorts and now I'm covered in scabbercrumbies
Am I the only one who is thinking "sabotage"? Or is this a Bedbug Mary (Larry?) scenario wherein a worker is going from low-rent shirt-folder job to low-rent shirt-folder job?
That was actually my first thought as well.
"Sabotage"? That's odd... the only word I am finding in my Learn To Speak American You Damn Immigrant handbook is "terrorism".
see my comment below, where do they live on this minimum wage? 5 in a 1 bedroom apt at the end of a subway line, where there seems to be a shortage of soap and water- may not be in their budget.Eating is n't as they probably have an average weight of 90lbs (M&F)
You'd think all the cologne they pump into the air would be fumigant enough.
I'm trying to remember how this song goes without playing it and all I'm getting is that tongue-in-twee acousticbro cover of "Boyz-n-the-Hood."
They bite the Beastie Boys in this song. They deserve the fire.
sabotage does come to min, but i think the idea of the shirt folder being moved has merit too, god knows where they live and who with. Also could be one of the hygienically challenged customers returning something a week later, they take anything back
And lets face it, the city has an infestation problem, does anyone even know how to buy a mattress? does not matter where from, it is the truck they come in that usually serves and the dump truck for old ones ( even worse dumped at a mattress recycling place)
one other point, it may depend on the source of the manufacturing, i speak from experience. In the never ending quest to get the cheapest product possible manufacturers search world over, to many countries americans would not even contemplate visiting- but they want their cheap product. I just check 3 pieces of A&F in my closet, all made in vietnam. Last time i worked at a company that did production there we had a whole shipment destroyed by the(BIG) customers receiving department because when they opened the crates bugs flew out, they had incubated on the ship. So that come down to consumer choice, you want cheap product and take the chance on infestation, or maybe do something for the economy and try to buy american? (american apparel?) Because you do not have to look like that gang of twits in the LFO video or are you just being lemmings (again) or maybe you do aspire to that. Funny how many comments come down to LFO, i guess their ghetto wannabe spoilt boy arrogance annoys more than just me
Not that American Apparel treat their employees well-i am sure you all saw this:
http://gawker.com/5572894/american-apparel-the-complete-new-standards-dress-code-manual/gallery/
totally the opposite extreme, verging on hitler youth to me
I happen to think it's fly when bugs stop by for the summer, for the summer
I'm glad I buy most of my clothes at vintage and thrift...
Oh God.