LL Bean store resumes 24-hour sales, Amtrak boosts schedule
May 3, 2021 GMT
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) L.L. Bean’s flagship store returned to 24-hour operations and Amtrak’s Downeaster resumed its full schedule on Monday, marking moves toward normalcy during the pandemic.
Amtrak’s expanded schedule includes a new southbound train which will depart Brunswick mid-morning and a new northbound train which will depart Boston mid-afternoon.
In Freeport, meanwhile, workers removed the locks Monday as L.L. Bean’s flagship store resumed around-the-clock sales.
The store had been operating on limited hours after Bean briefly closed all stores last year during the pandemic.
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L.L.Bean announces return to 24 hour model at flagship store in Freeport
When the retailer temporarily closed all of its stores due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 it was the first time the flagship store was closed for more than 24 hours.
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Steve Gauvin installs a lock on a door at the L.L.Bean flagship store in March 2020 in Freeport. L. L. Bean is returning to its 24/7 schedule in May. The flagship store, which is usually opens 24 hours a day, did not have locks on most of its doors.
AP Photo / Robert F. Bukaty
L.L.Bean announced Thursday that their Flagship store in Freeport will return to the 24 hour, seven days-a-week operating schedule on May 3.