Paparazzi

These days paparazzi is everywhere even when we do not know it.  As our celebrity clientele grew larger, the paparazzi increased.  Although, most times they do respect our store and space, one must be cautious what to say while the store.  We encourage you to limit your phone conversations in the store.  Kindly put yourself in our shoes.  Scenario:  you are shopping and browsing at our store.  Your receive a call and you are answering it.  Now all the patrons and staff are hearing your responses of your conversation.  That  is especially NOT good when you are speaking about a well known politician and a lunch you may have had.  Not knowing, you are now releasing personal information about your dinner/conversation/personal information.  On the other side: the staff noticing a paparazzi browsing, closing in on your personal space to catch pieces and details of your conversation.  You would certainly like for us to tell you about what is happening since you are not noticing that you just wrote an article for the next day newspaper.  First off, it puts us in an uncomfortable position to tell you we could hear your conversation.  Next - the news that you, unknowingly, gave information to paparazzi.
In most cases, we would try and prevent this from happening.  However, paparazzi is not always apparent to us. 
In addition, there might be times we close and lock the doors if a celebrity is shopping in the store.  In this case, a notice would be posted on the door for how long we might be closed.  This does not happen very often, upon request we adjust our store hours for celebrities so that they can shop freely and leave you free to shop our regular store hours.
In closing, we do not release or print any information about any celebrity, unless we received permission to do so or were asked to do so.  Should you meet an actor/ actress/ celebrity at our store give them their space and privacy, be kind.
We thank the press for all the kind words in the past and hope that our relationship remains as friendly as it has been.  If you are a reporter or paparazzi allow space and privacy to the person of your interest.  You might enjoy beading yourself ....

Keep beading everybody