Nike flagship store shut down, latest store to have bedbugs bite
By GEORGETT ROBERTS and CATHY BURKE
Last Updated: 1:17 PM, September 18, 2010
Posted: 12:51 PM, September 18, 2010
That bites!
Nike’s tourist-friendly flagship store here is closed down because of bedbugs, the Just Do It corporate giant said today.
The massive East 57th Street Niketown location is a fave of tourists and shoppers with its array of shoes, clothes and gizmos, and officials said they’d like to just-do-it and reopen as soon as possible.
"It’s one of our most popular stores," said Nike spokesman Kijuan Wilkins.
In a statement, Beaverton, Ore.-based Nike — which became synonymous with ex-NBA superstar Michael Jordan when he was its celebrity spokesman — the company said it had "proactively closed Niketown" when bedbugs were discovered there.
"Our primary concern is the well being of our consumers and sales associates," the statement said. "We are taking all proper steps to eradicate the problem and we expect the store to reopen shortly."
The company’s downtown store on Mercer Street isn’t affected.
Nike is the latest big retailer in Manhattan to get bit by the bedbug infestation.
Abercrombie & Fitch also was shut down the bed bug infestation that is ravaging New York, as well as one Times Square theater.
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