Banana Republic Taunts My Brother With Notion Of Shopping Online

My brother just called me from the streets of New York to get me to help him find a Banana Republic (business meeting and he forgot a tie). Yeah, he doesn't like to admit he shops at BR, but he's claiming he just needed a tie and he remembered there was a BR near by. So he called me to look up the location on the Banana Web site. But when I went there they had a big sign saying the site was "temporarily closed for scheduled site improvements". As if they couldn't keep the old one up until they pushed the new one?



Anyway, no big deal right? I'll just look up the locations on a local New York shopping directory. Annoying, but the end result was that we located the BR right around the corner from where my brother was standing. The kicker though is what he saw when he when to open the front door.



I also found the URL of the "temporarily closed" page a bit funny in its massive redundancy: (http://www.bananarepublic.com/store-closed/BananaRepublic/storeClosed/en/index.html)