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Frank Gargione, a columnist for our sister site Racked National, traveled to LA recently and blogged about his shopping experiences. His favorite store visit was at Opening Ceremony and his least favorite was at Maxfield, where "some shop girl with a chip on her shoulder followed us from rack to rack without greeting the way she might've trailed a gaggle of sticky-fingered teens." [Racked N'tl]