Huong and I hurried into the warehouse, whose interior was filled with large boxes of textiles and shoes.

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Someday I will even visit their store and warehouse in Burlington, NC but until then, the website and skilled phone operators work just fine.

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The warehouse holds blueprints of the Apple I, user manuals, magazine ads, TV commercials and T-shirts, along with thousands of photographs that document Steve Jobs during his years as CEO of NeXT.

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My worst nightmare would be to show up at an address, having paid for the four days of lodging, and see an empty warehouse instead of the chic London flat I was supposedly renting.

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For a time, I had hopes of editing the company newsletter in a shoe warehouse.

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As a long-time New York fashionista, when I think sample sale, the accompanying image flashing through my head is still the warehouse packed with ecstatic women rummaging through racks of designer threads, elbowing fellow shoppers out of the way in a tizzy of crazed designer discount glory.

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By this time of year, "I was hoping it'd be sunny and the weather breaking, " said Pugh, a warehouse worker who turned 38 Monday.

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