Bedbugs shut down flagship Nike store

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

Plagues, Pestilences and Diseases

Bedbugs shut down flagship Nike store

    * From: NewsCore
    * September 19, 2010 4:06AM


NIKETOWN, Nike’s tourist-friendly flagship New York store, has been closed due to an infestation of bedbugs.

The massive Manhattan Niketown location is a favorite of tourists and shoppers with its array of shoes, clothes and gizmos, and officials said the would like to "just do it" and reopen as soon as possible.

"It’s one of our most popular stores," said Nike spokesman Kijuan Wilkins.

Nike 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."

Nike is the latest big New York retailer to be plagued by the bedbug infestation.

Abercrombie & Fitch also was shut down due to bedbugs, as well as one Times Square movie theater. The pests also recently invaded Google's New York City office and the Empire State Building.

Read more at the New York Post.