Your Daily Bed Bug Update

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WWD consulted stores near Hollister and the South Street Seaport Abercrombie to see if they'd been invaded by bed bugs. So far, everyone's claimed to be free of the little suckers, including the Seaport's Ann Taylor and the 24-Hour Fitness Center above Hollister. Then again, bed bug cover-ups are common—common enough that maybe the craziest thing about the Hollister/Abercrombie debacle is the fact that the press got wind of it in the first place. [WWD; Previously]