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"A reliable airport standby for a quick browse, a bottle of water, or a last-minute pair of twenty-dollar Gumi headphones whose packaging feels impossible to open without scissors, the location in Newark Airport Terminal B felt anything but casual that day. The line was interminable—snaking around the store 25 people deep—as I watched a wife consider a sleekly packaged sleep aid and worry about taking it “up there,” while a man plopped five one-liter Dasani bottles in front of a flustered cashier asking if they could all fit in one bag; arms were straining with bags, cans, and papers as we inched forward." - Elise Taylor