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—>Watch out for organized, highly trained teams of shoplifters in your local mall. They aren't small-time operators—they stole $23,000 worth of bras and panties from a West Virginia Victoria's Secret. No, really. More »
—>In this latest Above and Beyond story, Victoria's Secret conducts a nationwide search to find the Chris and Becka's panties. More »
—>Discover Magazine has an interesting blog post about some consumers who were complaining that Victoria's Secret bras were giving them painful rashes. When their lawyers bought similar bras and had them tested — they were found to contain formaldehyde. More »
—>New York state labor officials are bringing one of their largest cases ever against Jin Shun, a clothing factory in Queens, New York that employed Chinese immigrants. Inspectors say the company
- cheated its workers out of more than $5 million in pay;
- instructed workers to lie to state inspectors;
- required 6 and 7-day workweeks, sometimes for up to 120 days at a time;
- didn't pay overtime or minimum wage;
- kept two sets of timecards to fake-out inspectors.
—>Macrida Patterson, age 52, is suing Victoria's Secret, claiming that because of a design problem, a decorative metallic piece affixed to her thong became airborne and struck her in the eye as she was attempting to put on the garment, according to The Smoking Gun. The thong is called a "low-rise v-string" from their "Sexy Little Thing" line (pictured left). The injury has supposedly caused damage to her cornea, causing her to miss work and "will be affecting her the rest of her life." Details, inside... More »
July 2, 2007 More »
Like some other activists, Billy and his gang are mad that Victoria's Secret mails over a 1 million catalogs a day, 25% of the paper for which comes from the Great Boreal Forest in Canada, one of the world's largest endangered forests, as reported by TIME in 2005. More »
—>In protest of Victoria's Secret employees acting like boobs, a national protest plans to whip out theirs. More »
—>Not only do the rich have it better, they also write it better. Alex Kuczynki is some affluent broad "The Old Gray Lady" (New York Times) pays to scribe her mercantile extravaganzas. On her latest spree, on the advice of friends, she went to Vegas to partake of its wonderful lingerie purchasing opportunities. More »
This just in. Victoria's Secret is launching a systematic attack of intimidation, isolation and humiliation... on women with enormous cans. More »
—>TIME.com reports on the efforts of Forest Ethics, an environmental advocacy group, to curtail the 1 million catalogs a day that Victoria's Secrets mass mails out. Since 25% of the paper that Victoria's Secrets uses comes from the Great Boreal Forest, that's a lot of endangered trees chainsawed down to feed the pitiful boners of millions of lonely 13 year olds looking for a cheap source of pubescent titillation. More »
