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Superstore Details
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(Dec. 15, 2001)------The store is open every day from 9:00 am to 6:00
pm and is located in a large white tent East of the Delta Center at the
Southeast corner of 300 West and South Temple in downtown Salt
Lake City, Utah.
For last minute holiday shoppers, the Superstore will
be open from 9 am to 9 pm on Saturday, December 22. (The store will
close on January 20, 2002, for restocking. When it reopens on January
27, 2002, hours will be 11 am to 11 pm through the Games.)
At 22,000
square feet, this Superstore is the largest ever at an Olympic Games.
The store will house more than 65,000 T-shirts, 65,000 caps, 250,000
Olympic pins and 80,000 plush 2002 Games mascots in addition to
other merchandise supplied by nearly 60 official licensees of the
Games. Prices on merchandise range from $2 for a pencil set to $7,800
for Dale Chihuly glasswork.
“The Superstore showcases the widest array of Salt Lake 2002
merchandise available,” said Mark Lewis, vice president of marketing for
SLOC. “The location, design and selection of merchandise allows
Games’ spectators, athletes, volunteers and fans the opportunity to
commemorate their own Games experience.”
The Superstore, designed and managed by Concept Sports, the
company that produced and managed the Sydney Olympic Games
Superstore, will employ more than 500 staff to work in the store through
the end of the Games, with 50 to 70 sales associates on the floor at
any one time.
