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The famed Apple store on 5th Avenue isn't just crawling with thousands of tourists– it's also been crawling with bed bugs for nearly a month, The Post has learned.
This past Friday, after weeks of bed bug sightings, a critter was spotted in the manager's office, sending desperate employees into a frenzy, terrified they'd bring the pest home with them.
"It was just mayhem," an employee told The Post.
"There was a mass exodus... employees were freaking out they felt really unsafe and management kept giving them the runaround."
Staff were ordered to double bag their belongings in plastic while a "bed bug sniffing beagle" came to the store where it was "activated" by two lockers in a staff area.
"I shouldn't have to go to work feeling unsafe and unprotected," one worker told The Post.
"We felt very anxious, used and unimportant, like we were just another number."
One worker said the issue has been going on for "nearly a month" and "Friday was the first day they acknowledged they found something."
The employee said the issue started about three to four weeks ago during the overnight hours at the 24-hour store, which frequently has homeless visitors, when a table on the second floor was "cordoned off" because a bed bug was found, believed to have come from one of the homeless visitors.
The table was left cordoned off while employees and customers were allowed in the store and around the table with no warning of the bed bug threat, an employee said.
"No one could go to that table but it was still on the floor, if a customer leaned on it and they didn't know" a bug could've crawled on them, the worker said.
https://nypost.com/2019/04/15/the-5th-ave-apple-store-has-been-crawling-with-bed-bugs/
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:19AM (2 children)
I've bought most of my work clothes from thrift stores over the past 5 years ($3 shirts, $4 pants... as compared to $15+ on the best of retail sales, and over $100 per article if you just buy what looks attractive on the rack from the who cares what it costs stores... yeah, my work clothes do come from the thrift stores.)
So far, zero problems with infestation of any sort. Of course, we're not buying bedding, pillows or those kind of things. The clothing mostly looks nearly new, and a trip through the professional cleaners costs more than the clothing itself. We do usually wash it at home before use, but I doubt that has ever made a difference.
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(Score: 2) by Immerman on Wednesday April 17 2019, @04:00AM
So do mine - it seems a total waste to buy new clothes when mountains of almost-new clothing is thrown away every day.
A lot of it probably depends on the local infestation level and cleaning practices. At any rate - if you routinely run clothes through a hot drier before adding them to you wardrobe, you're probably doing a pretty decent decontamination.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @03:46PM
Saving $10?
Wow.
Okay.
You are lucky.
If you contract bird mites you could be spending $250+ per month. Everything will need to be washed before you can wear it. Everything should be extra long dried in a tumble drier. Clothes will need to be worn within a day or two of washing. Once you have bird mites getting rid of them is next to impossible. Your washer or dryer may die every two years or so from the excessive use. You will not be able to have close friends. You will have to part from family or risk infecting them. You won't be able to have pets.
Buy clothes from a thift store? You would have to be insane.