Abercrombie & Fitch’s top executive/Gary Busey doppelgänger Mike Jeffries lobbed a “Sorry (not sorry) you don’t like my comments about thin, cool people wearing our clothes” non-apology last week, and now the company is kinda sorta trying to take that mea culpa a bit further. Executives met with a group from the National Eating Disorder Association and members of America the Beautiful Teen Empowerment Series to discuss how it can be more diverse and said it regrets the offense it caused. [More]
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Judge Says Abercrombie & Fitch’s Hollister Stores Don’t Treat Disabled Customers Right
By 5.22.13
Abercrombie & Fitch is in hot water again, once more over claims that the company isn’t treating everyone equally. A federal judge in Denver is mulling over an injunction against Hollister, which is part of the A&F family. Earlier the federal judge had ruled that almost 250 Hollister stores are unfriendly to the disabled, because entry doors aren’t all easily accessible. [More]
Abercrombie CEO Sorry That People Didn’t Like When He Said Plus-Size People Don’t Belong In His Clothes
By 5.17.13
A couple weeks back, the Internet found more reasons to hate Abercrombie & Fitch after people resurrected a 2006 interview in which CEO Mike Jeffries said his company deliberately avoids selling to the “not-so-cool kids,” which was his way of referring to people who aren’t skinny. Now Jeffries is apologizing, not for what he said, but really just because people are upset about it. [More]
Why Doesn’t Abercrombie & Fitch Sell Larger Sizes For Women?
By 5.3.13
If you’re over 19 and have an aversion to blasting music and frayed-looking cargo pants and teeny tiny tank tops, you probably haven’t been in an Abercrombie & Fitch recently. But plenty of the younger set go there seeking just the right shirt, or a pair of jeans that will do the trick for the Big Game, whatever kids do these days. If those teens happen to be girls larger than a size L or 10, however, they’ll be out of luck. [More]
Abercrombie Kids Can’t Count To Three, Exists Outside Of Reality
By 12.11.12
David has a problem with clothing vendor Abercrombie Kids. They don’t know how to count to three. This would be an issue for many kindergarteners, but is especially problematic for a retailer that offers three-day shipping. Well, maybe someone there knows how to count to three, or even past three. It’s pretty hard to run a business otherwise. The problem is that the shirt that he ordered eight days ago, paying for three-day shipping, still isn’t here. It’s been shipped, but still wasn’t on its way. The shipment had been picked up, but the shirt hadn’t been shipped. It’s interesting that Abercrombie can exist outside of all normal rules of reality like that, but David just wants his daughter’s blouse already. [More]
New Survey Shows Why Amazon Has Bricks-And-Mortar Retailers Worried
By 11.30.12
Many bricks-and-mortar retailers claim Amazon has an unfair advantage because it is not — in most states — yet required to collect sales tax on purchases, or that Amazon can offer huge discounts because it doesn’t have the overhead associated with running a retail store. But a new survey shows that people might just like Amazon more than other retailers. [More]
Abercrombie & Fitch Is NOT Using The N-Word To Sell Pants
By 3.22.12
The Internet is abuzz right now with screen grabs and links to a site that claims to be an outlet for Abercrombie & Fitch and which also describes a pair of pants as being “Ni**er Brown.” Of course, some people are already getting angry at A&F, which is no stranger to controversy, but they might have missed that this is obviously not a legitimate Abercrombie website. [More]
Judge Certifies Class-Action Status For Abercrombie & Fitch Gift Card Lawsuit
By 3.15.12
Abercrombie & Fitch could soon learn a huge lesson in bad marketing practices. A federal judge has given the go-ahead to a class-action lawsuit against the retailer that alleges it handed out gift cards with no expiration date only to later tell customers that their cards had expired. [More]
Abercrombie & Fitch Offers To Pay "The Situation" To Stop Wearing Its Clothes
By 8.17.11
Abercrombie & Fitch issued a press release last night saying that they would pay Michael ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino from The Jersey Shore to stop wearing its products. Is it stunt marketing or trying to preempt an anti-all-things-Jersey-Shore-related backlash? [More]
Woman Banned From Abercrombie & Fitch For Excessive Purchases
By 8.11.11
What happens when you’re a huge fan of Abercrombie & Fitch, spending at least a thousand dollars there per year, but don’t have a retail store nearby? Why, you shop online, then get banned from making any more purchases from them. Of course. Wait, what? [More]
Abercrombie Realizes 7-Year-Old Girls Don't Need Push-Up Bikini Tops
By 3.29.11
Late last week, Abercrombie & Fitch raised more than a few eyebrows when someone noticed that the company was selling push-up bikini tops to girls as young as seven years old. Looks like the retailer has had a change of heart following the uproar. [More]
Teens Unite In Protest Of Abercrombie & Fitch's Fierce Stench
By 10.5.10
With the exception of the news that Abercrombie & Fitch would soon be closing 60 retail outlets in the U.S., I hadn’t heard much about the store since that wonderful LFO hit from 1999. But last week, a group of angered teens gathered outside an A&F in California to protest the store’s apparently incessant spraying of its Fierce brand scent, which they claim is both noxious and obnoxious. [More]
10 Top Retail Chains That Are Shrinking
By 8.23.10
Apparently, people haven’t been spending their unemployment checks at the mall in recent months, because a large number of prominent retail clothing and food chains — from Abercrombie & Fitch to Winn-Dixie — are being forced to shutter stores in the wake of the economic downturn. [More]
Abercrombie & Fitch To Resurrect Soft Core Catalog
By 6.26.10
With sales down and consumer interest flagging, Abercrombie & Fitch has decided it’s time to bring back its provocative catalog. The return of A&F Quarterly, which will go on sale July 17 for $10, is a blatant grab for the attention of America’s recession-wracked teen spenders. Will it succeed? [More]
Lawsuit: Abercrombie Said Muslim's Headscarf Violated "Look Policy"
By 9.18.09
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.
16-Year-Old Unwittingly Stars In Homemade Abercrombie & Fitch Dressing Room Video
By 9.10.09
A teenager is suing Abercrombie & Fitch and one of its former employees after she caught someone filming her in one of the store’s dressing rooms.
Abercrombie & Fitch Threatens To Sue Merchants In Hollister, California For Trademark Infringement
By 5.2.09
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.”
Would You Take Your (Really Hot) Kid To The Abercrombie & Fitch Emergency Department And Trauma Center?
By 3.12.08
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.
