Apple Stores Infested With Celebrity Shoppers
As our eagle-eyed readers have told us time and time again, local Apple stores are a fish-in-a-barrel location for celebrity sightings. Today's Wired News has a story on Mac-obsessed actors running amok in Apple's shiny, white retail spaces, and they convinced some clerks to break the store's gag order to let us know which stars go apeshit when they can't get access to the magical celebrity inventory or the special millionaire's discount.
The associate, who asked to remain anonymous, said [Melanie] Griffith came right up to him and "pretty much demanded" a pink iPod mini. The mini was in short supply, and the associate told her there were none in stock.
"She then proceeded to get pissed off at me personally because we didn't have any in stock," the associate said. "She said we have a special stock of iPods for people like her.... I hadn't seen any celebrities there up until then, so at first I was like, 'Oh wow, cool, Melanie Griffith.' But then she opened her mouth and used me as a doormat, and I was like, 'What the fuck is this shit? Milk Money sucked.'"
There's also an anecdote about how Fred Durst insists on getting his 5-percent record label discount, even when he's saving a single buck on a $20 item. But in fairness to Durst, he probably needs that buck to buy himself a sandwich.