discrimination
Looks like
Abercrombie & Fitch just can't catch a break lately — at least when they discriminate against employees who don't fit the company's image because they've committed the outrageous offense of, oh, having been born with only one arm. Or, in the latest incident, having a religion that just happens to include its own rules on proper attire. In this case, the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission is suing A&F for discrimination after it refused to hire a Muslim woman who wouldn't remove her headscarf. "Abercrombie and Fitch should make exceptions to its policy when needed and we don't believe it would be an undue burden on the company," said Michelle Robertson, an EEOC lawyer.
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cease & desist
Taking a page out of Monster Cable's playbook, Abercrombie & Fitch has threatened to sue merchants in Hollister, California who sell clothes bearing their town's name. A&F claims that local merchants putting "Hollister" on their clothes will confuse notoriously inept surfers who can't distinguish between a town and A&F's Hollister Co. line. So what happens if the locals defy the upscale bully? According to David Cupps, Abercrombie's general counsel and harasser-in-chief, "If they try, they would get a call and much more."
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badvertising
The once-popular—surely it isn't still?—teenaged sexpot clothing store Abercrombie & Fitch is shelling out $10 million to
build a new emergency room and trauma center at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Now a group is speaking out against the idea of prominently naming the kids' ER after the store, which the hospital has been hinting at in announcements. The reason the hospital is called "Nationwide Children's Hospital" is because Nationwide Insurance gave it $50 million. Up next: the Budweiser End Zone Birthing Center, and then the American Apparel Teenaged Pregnancy Wing.
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fashion
Branding is everywhere, billboards, sky-writing and even in your pants (check the label, bub). Always seeking new ways to expand message penetration, companies have turned to sponsoring buildings, such as the Pepsi Center and Coors Field. The field of viable sports venues depleted, corporations have turned to the next killing field: hospitals!
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abercrombie & fitch
We took a stroll down
5th avenue in NYC this afternoon and saw many delightful and several inane things through the shop windowss (a Flickr gallery is forthcoming). But first, we just had to show you this pic we snagged through the open door at Abercrombie & Fitch.
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complaints
If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that those little fuckers at Abercrombie and Fitch should be hung by their charm bracelets and have all the faux gay overtone spanked out of them. (Actually, that sounds sort of hot.)
The clerk had put them on the table behind him, so he turned his back to me for a minute, then said, "No, they're $44.95." When I had handed them to him, the store tag had a printed price (on the little perforated strip at the bottom) that said $39.50. Now the tag was gone. I told him to hang on a second and went back to check the display.
It's a freakout at the Fitch when prices
vary.
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pervs
111 shirtless men of average builds prank a huge Abercromibe & Fitch store. [ImprovEverywhere]
