If I buy an iPhone 4S at Verizon, will their activation skip the initial set up?

I'll be upgrading to an iPhone 4S ASAP after my upgrade date on 10/23. Thing is, I really like doing the start up stuff myself.
When I've bought phones in Verizon stores in the past, they open the boxes and turn on the phones first.  Do they do this with the iPhone, too, and skip all of those great screens with the initial set up Apple has made for us?  I think I'd rather order online and enjoy the process if that's the case, but if they don't, going in store to try and get a phone right away would be nice.
Thoughts?

Yes. In order to activate the iPhone on the verizon network (or at least on the original iPhone 4) they have to set it up on their computers. So even if you buy it online, I'm almost postisive that they will have to have you bring it in, and have it set up by them. Or at least that's what happened for me. It could be different now.

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