The judge said the store discriminated against the teen by abercrombie and fitch not making reasonable accommodations for her disability. The judge also said the retailer officials were general assholes when approached about the incident, hollister didn't follow their own policies, and even denied the girl was disabled.
The retailer must pay more than $155,000, including $25,000 to the teen. AF plans to appeal.
AF was also in the news recently when a former employee hollister clothing said she was forced to work in the backroom because she had a prosthetic arm that didn't fit their image. The retailer was found to have broken employment law and had to pay her of unlawful harassment.
2009年10月18日星期日
2009年10月14日星期三
Abercrombie Business Ticks up in July
In July we have asked 29 different abercrombie and fitch locations several questions in order to gauge sales trends. Here are the questions that we asked.
Has this location been open for more than one year?
Which of the following ‘Key Looks’(Women’s) categories is the most popular this spring?
Which of the following Women’s products people have been buying the most of?
Are there enough of the most popular item in-stock right now?
Will it be hard to get more of the most popular product if hollister they need to get more for the holiday season?
Is business increasing / decreasing / flat since last month?
All of the respondents said that the location was open for more than a year.
Knit Tanks, Lexi, and Dresses were all stated to be the top ‘Key Looks’ by 10% of the respondents.
28% of the respondents reported that the Emma Low Rise Boot Jean was the top selling women’s product, while 24% of abercrombie outlet the respondents said that the Margaret top was the top selling women product.
All of the respondents reported that there is enough of the most popular item in stock now.
17% of the respondents reported that there would be difficulty getting the most popular product if they needed it during the holiday season. 83% said that there would be no difficulty getting the items during the holiday season.
45% of the respondents reported that business is increasing since last month, with 31% reporting no change in business in the last month, and 24% of the respondents reporting a loss in business the last month.
Conclusion of Channel Check: The survey suggests that there was not a large increase in sales during the last month. There also does not seem to be a dominant new women’s product or a dominant women’s ‘Key Look’ out right now. The stocks of their most popular items are full, furthering the point that there is not a large craze for a clothing item at this point. However, during the holiday season, there could be difficulty getting the most popular product if they needed it. Overall Abercrombie looks to be seeing a small increase in business, with no new items driving sales by itself.
Has this location been open for more than one year?
Which of the following ‘Key Looks’(Women’s) categories is the most popular this spring?
Which of the following Women’s products people have been buying the most of?
Are there enough of the most popular item in-stock right now?
Will it be hard to get more of the most popular product if hollister they need to get more for the holiday season?
Is business increasing / decreasing / flat since last month?
All of the respondents said that the location was open for more than a year.
Knit Tanks, Lexi, and Dresses were all stated to be the top ‘Key Looks’ by 10% of the respondents.
28% of the respondents reported that the Emma Low Rise Boot Jean was the top selling women’s product, while 24% of abercrombie outlet the respondents said that the Margaret top was the top selling women product.
All of the respondents reported that there is enough of the most popular item in stock now.
17% of the respondents reported that there would be difficulty getting the most popular product if they needed it during the holiday season. 83% said that there would be no difficulty getting the items during the holiday season.
45% of the respondents reported that business is increasing since last month, with 31% reporting no change in business in the last month, and 24% of the respondents reporting a loss in business the last month.
Conclusion of Channel Check: The survey suggests that there was not a large increase in sales during the last month. There also does not seem to be a dominant new women’s product or a dominant women’s ‘Key Look’ out right now. The stocks of their most popular items are full, furthering the point that there is not a large craze for a clothing item at this point. However, during the holiday season, there could be difficulty getting the most popular product if they needed it. Overall Abercrombie looks to be seeing a small increase in business, with no new items driving sales by itself.
2009年10月13日星期二
Abercrombie & Fitch Fined For Discriminating Against Autistic Shopper
The PR geniuses at abercrombie and fitch are in the news again for refusing to let a 14-year old autistic shopper have help trying on clothes. The Minnesota Department of Human Rights has fined the company $115,264 for discriminating against a person with a disability.
Hm. This sure sounds familiar.
The injured parties include Molly Maxon, who has autism, and her hollister clothing older sister. When the two tried to enter a fitting room together so that the sister could help Molly try on clothes, an A&F employee refused to let them, citing a store policy to prevent shoplifting.
Hm. This sure sounds familiar.
The injured parties include Molly Maxon, who has autism, and her hollister clothing older sister. When the two tried to enter a fitting room together so that the sister could help Molly try on clothes, an A&F employee refused to let them, citing a store policy to prevent shoplifting.
2009年9月28日星期一
abercrombie on sale
Hemingway committed suicide in 1961, shooting abercrombie and fitch himself in the head with a double-barreled, 12-gauge shotgun, while wearing a robe and pajamas in the foyer of his Blaine County house.
He had a turbulent personal life. He told people that he despised his mother. He had been married four times and involved with many other abercrombie and fitch women. He was often unkind to other writers whom he knew, and wrote vicious portraits of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein, which were published in his memoir A Moveable Feast.
His memoir was actually published abercrombie and fitch posthumously by his widow, Mary Hemingway, in 1964. She edited extensively the memoir manuscript, patching stuff together from various sources. She included things he'd explicitly stated that he didn't want published, and excluded other parts of his unfinished memoir manuscript.
This month, July 2009, Scribner is releasing a "restored edition" of Hemingway's memoir. The new edition is edited by Sean Hemingway, abercrombie and fitch the grandson of Hemingway and his second wife, Pauline, a woman who was much maligned in the edition of the memoir edited by Mary, the fourth wife.
Sean Hemingway is a curator at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and he has edited other anthologies of Hemingway's writing. He is including parts of the original manuscript that Mary had cut out, passages that he says show his grandfather's "remorse and some of the happiness he felt and his very conflicted views he had about the end of his marriage" to Pauline. The new edition, he says, is more inclusive and portrays his grandmother in a more sympathetic manner. Sixteen thousand copies of the new edition of A Moveable Feast are being printed in the first run, and Scribner is also releasing new editions of all of Hemingway's novels with redesigned covers.
Hemingway said, "The writer's job is to tell the truth." In A Moveable Feast, he wrote: "I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, `Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one abercrombie and fitch true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say."
There's a legend that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to create a six-word story, and he said, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Inspired by this, an online magazine invited readers to submit their own six-word memoirs, a collection of which was published by Harper Collins in 2008 as Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. Six-word memoirs include: "All I ever wanted was more" and "Moments of transcendence, intervals of yearning" and "They called. I answered. Wrong number."
He had a turbulent personal life. He told people that he despised his mother. He had been married four times and involved with many other abercrombie and fitch women. He was often unkind to other writers whom he knew, and wrote vicious portraits of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein, which were published in his memoir A Moveable Feast.
His memoir was actually published abercrombie and fitch posthumously by his widow, Mary Hemingway, in 1964. She edited extensively the memoir manuscript, patching stuff together from various sources. She included things he'd explicitly stated that he didn't want published, and excluded other parts of his unfinished memoir manuscript.
This month, July 2009, Scribner is releasing a "restored edition" of Hemingway's memoir. The new edition is edited by Sean Hemingway, abercrombie and fitch the grandson of Hemingway and his second wife, Pauline, a woman who was much maligned in the edition of the memoir edited by Mary, the fourth wife.
Sean Hemingway is a curator at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and he has edited other anthologies of Hemingway's writing. He is including parts of the original manuscript that Mary had cut out, passages that he says show his grandfather's "remorse and some of the happiness he felt and his very conflicted views he had about the end of his marriage" to Pauline. The new edition, he says, is more inclusive and portrays his grandmother in a more sympathetic manner. Sixteen thousand copies of the new edition of A Moveable Feast are being printed in the first run, and Scribner is also releasing new editions of all of Hemingway's novels with redesigned covers.
Hemingway said, "The writer's job is to tell the truth." In A Moveable Feast, he wrote: "I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, `Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one abercrombie and fitch true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say."
There's a legend that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to create a six-word story, and he said, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Inspired by this, an online magazine invited readers to submit their own six-word memoirs, a collection of which was published by Harper Collins in 2008 as Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. Six-word memoirs include: "All I ever wanted was more" and "Moments of transcendence, intervals of yearning" and "They called. I answered. Wrong number."
2009年9月27日星期日
A socialist education
From the New York Times:
President Obama’s plan abercrombie and fitch to deliver a speech to public school students on Tuesday has set off a revolt among conservative parents, who have accused the president of trying to indoctrinate their children with socialist ideas and are asking school officials to excuse the children from listening.
“The thing that concerned me most about it was it seemed like a direct channel from the president of the United States into the classroom, to my child,” said Brett Curtis, an engineer from Pearland, Tex., who said he would keep his three children home.
“I don’t want our schools turned over to some socialist movement.”
Obviously, the whole “argument” over whether Obama’s speech to students on Tuesday will be rife with socialist rhetoric is now completely debunked. The White House released the full speech today, and it’s far from a call to arms for some kind of child-led socialist revolution. Rather, Obama encourages kids to try their best, no abercrombie and fitch matter their economical, geographical, or physical circumstances. So, that’s that. Easiest blog ever.
Oh wait! There’s something else.
The idea of messages being beamed into classrooms across the country is a scary one. Who wants children to be exposed to messages over which parents and teachers have little control? Nobody. Right?
At the risk of being labeled a socialist myself, I’ll bet that Channel One – the nationwide, 12-minute teen “news” program shown in some US schools, and subject of much scrutiny over the years – would be enough to combat any “socialist” speech from the President. The channel’s “news” is often product-related and many of its special segments are sponsored by corporations (like AT&T) or, as in the case of Glory Road, the US Army.
As Naomi Klein wrote in 2000’s No Logo:
Channel One, meanwhile, charges advertisers top dollar for accessing its pipeline to classrooms… because, with mandatory attendance and no channel-changing or volume control, it can boast something no other broadcaster can: “No audience erosion.”
The channel also offers teachers complimentary discussion topics for their classes that revolve around that day’s program. The September 3rd program, for example, (script available to download here) features a report on the decline of Abercrombie & Fitch sales during the current recession. Reporter Steven Fabian informs students that A&F had considered lowering prices, but were worried that it would affect the perceived quality of the label. It’s all very serious “business” news, of course. And the related questions for teachers to discuss with students? Just as serious:
* Why has abercrombie and fitch decided against lowering its prices?
* What impact has the recession had on Abercrombie and Fitch?
* Why is Abercrombie considering a change in strategy?
OMG, I dunno, yo! But totes going to abercrombie and fitch during spare!
The impact of product placement in schools has been the topic of endless debate, but it seems even more fitting to discuss it now, when everyone’s panicking over how Obama’s message will affect the political leanings of six-year-olds. If parents are really going to put any serious thought into what kind of messages their children are privy to a school, maybe they should start at the Coke machine.
But just so we leave on a completely twisted note, abercrombie and fitch I’ll say one more thing about Channel One:
The other day on his show, Glenn Beck went on a nine-minute diatribe about “socialist” and “fascist” artwork at Rockefeller Center in New York City – the home, he was eager to point out, of his most hated rival network, NBC.
President Obama’s plan abercrombie and fitch to deliver a speech to public school students on Tuesday has set off a revolt among conservative parents, who have accused the president of trying to indoctrinate their children with socialist ideas and are asking school officials to excuse the children from listening.
“The thing that concerned me most about it was it seemed like a direct channel from the president of the United States into the classroom, to my child,” said Brett Curtis, an engineer from Pearland, Tex., who said he would keep his three children home.
“I don’t want our schools turned over to some socialist movement.”
Obviously, the whole “argument” over whether Obama’s speech to students on Tuesday will be rife with socialist rhetoric is now completely debunked. The White House released the full speech today, and it’s far from a call to arms for some kind of child-led socialist revolution. Rather, Obama encourages kids to try their best, no abercrombie and fitch matter their economical, geographical, or physical circumstances. So, that’s that. Easiest blog ever.
Oh wait! There’s something else.
The idea of messages being beamed into classrooms across the country is a scary one. Who wants children to be exposed to messages over which parents and teachers have little control? Nobody. Right?
At the risk of being labeled a socialist myself, I’ll bet that Channel One – the nationwide, 12-minute teen “news” program shown in some US schools, and subject of much scrutiny over the years – would be enough to combat any “socialist” speech from the President. The channel’s “news” is often product-related and many of its special segments are sponsored by corporations (like AT&T) or, as in the case of Glory Road, the US Army.
As Naomi Klein wrote in 2000’s No Logo:
Channel One, meanwhile, charges advertisers top dollar for accessing its pipeline to classrooms… because, with mandatory attendance and no channel-changing or volume control, it can boast something no other broadcaster can: “No audience erosion.”
The channel also offers teachers complimentary discussion topics for their classes that revolve around that day’s program. The September 3rd program, for example, (script available to download here) features a report on the decline of Abercrombie & Fitch sales during the current recession. Reporter Steven Fabian informs students that A&F had considered lowering prices, but were worried that it would affect the perceived quality of the label. It’s all very serious “business” news, of course. And the related questions for teachers to discuss with students? Just as serious:
* Why has abercrombie and fitch decided against lowering its prices?
* What impact has the recession had on Abercrombie and Fitch?
* Why is Abercrombie considering a change in strategy?
OMG, I dunno, yo! But totes going to abercrombie and fitch during spare!
The impact of product placement in schools has been the topic of endless debate, but it seems even more fitting to discuss it now, when everyone’s panicking over how Obama’s message will affect the political leanings of six-year-olds. If parents are really going to put any serious thought into what kind of messages their children are privy to a school, maybe they should start at the Coke machine.
But just so we leave on a completely twisted note, abercrombie and fitch I’ll say one more thing about Channel One:
The other day on his show, Glenn Beck went on a nine-minute diatribe about “socialist” and “fascist” artwork at Rockefeller Center in New York City – the home, he was eager to point out, of his most hated rival network, NBC.
2009年9月25日星期五
Abercrombie & Fitch fined in MOA discrimination case
A judge ordered retail giant abercrombie and fitch to pay $115,000 for discriminating against a 14-year-old autistic customer at its Mall of America store.
The civil penalty, the largest of its kind in at least two years, came four years after store employees refused to let the autistic teen join her older sister in a fitting room because of the clothing chain's anti-shoplifting policy. The store refused to relent even after the sister, and later the girls' mother, explained that the 14-year-old couldn't be alone because of her disability.
The confrontation humiliated the girl, abercrombie and fitch who testified that the incident made her feel like a "misfit."
"She was singled out and required to hear her sister and mother repeatedly ask for accommodations based on her disability, in front of a long line of customers, at a store that markets itself to young people abercrombie and fitch as a purveyor of a particularly desirable 'look' " administrative law judge Kathleen D. Sheehy declared in her ruling.
When several complaints to the company were ignored, the girl's mother, Elizabeth Maxson of Apple Valley, took the case to the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. The investigation encountered fierce resistance from abercrombie and fitch, a New Albany, Ohio-based company that posted $3.5 billion in revenues last year. The company even denied that the girl, identified only as M.M. in court documents, had a disability until the first day of the administrative law hearing in April. She was diagnosed as autistic at the age of 2.
In her ruling, Sheehy found that abercrombie and fitch violated the Minnesota Human Rights Act and ordered the company to pay the girl $25,000 for mental anguish and suffering. The company also was ordered to pay $25,000 to the state as a civil penalty, $41,069 in attorney's fees, $20,441 to the human rights department for its expenses and $3,753 in other expenses.
The civil penalty, the largest of its kind in at least two years, came four years after store employees refused to let the autistic teen join her older sister in a fitting room because of the clothing chain's anti-shoplifting policy. The store refused to relent even after the sister, and later the girls' mother, explained that the 14-year-old couldn't be alone because of her disability.
The confrontation humiliated the girl, abercrombie and fitch who testified that the incident made her feel like a "misfit."
"She was singled out and required to hear her sister and mother repeatedly ask for accommodations based on her disability, in front of a long line of customers, at a store that markets itself to young people abercrombie and fitch as a purveyor of a particularly desirable 'look' " administrative law judge Kathleen D. Sheehy declared in her ruling.
When several complaints to the company were ignored, the girl's mother, Elizabeth Maxson of Apple Valley, took the case to the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. The investigation encountered fierce resistance from abercrombie and fitch, a New Albany, Ohio-based company that posted $3.5 billion in revenues last year. The company even denied that the girl, identified only as M.M. in court documents, had a disability until the first day of the administrative law hearing in April. She was diagnosed as autistic at the age of 2.
In her ruling, Sheehy found that abercrombie and fitch violated the Minnesota Human Rights Act and ordered the company to pay the girl $25,000 for mental anguish and suffering. The company also was ordered to pay $25,000 to the state as a civil penalty, $41,069 in attorney's fees, $20,441 to the human rights department for its expenses and $3,753 in other expenses.
2009年9月24日星期四
Bayer in Berkeley, Abercrombie & Fitch, Fed study
Bayer HealthCare announced Wednesday that it abercrombie and fitch will invest more than $100 million to upgrade and improve its Berkeley manufacturing capabilities, a decision that dispels fears the pharmaceutical giant and the city's largest private employer would exit.
The decision by Bayer HealthCare to manufacture future versions of its hemophilia drug Kogenate isn't just about the patients. It's also a major relief for Berkeley and Oakland. Earlier this year, Bayer hinted it was considering a move out of Berkeley.
"There has definitely been a lot of bad news with abercrombie and fitch NUMMI leaving and the threat of Bayer possibly leaving, so it's nice to finally give people some good news," said Tom Bates, mayor of Berkeley. "This is not just important for Berkeley but for the region as well."
This is the largest investment ever made by Bayer on the Berkeley site, said Joerg Heidrich, head of Bayer HealthCare's product supply biotech organization.
nation
abercrombie and fitch sues Beyoncé
Teen clothing retailer abercrombie and fitch is suing singer Beyoncé Knowles over her plans for a fragrance named after Sasha Fierce, her alter ego.
Abercrombie & Fitch says in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Columbus, Ohio, that Knowles' intent to use the name constitutes trademark infringement, unfair competition and deceptive trade practices.
New Albany, Ohio-based Abercrombie says its Abercrombie & Fitch Trading Co. subsidiary has owned the Fierce trademark since 2002 for its own men's fragrance.
It asks the court to order Knowles to halt her plan to sell a fragrance with a similar name.
abercrombie and fitch says sales of its fragrance have exceeded $190 million. It projects 2009 sales at $64 million.
washington
Fed looks at medium-size lenders
Federal Reserve supervisors are examining the vulnerability of medium-size lenders to falling commercial real-estate values to gauge the size of potential losses across the banking system.
The Fed is focusing on banks smaller than the 19 largest lenders examined in detail in May, a central bank official said on condition of anonymity. The process involves gathering data from individual banks and comparing it with their peers, an approach known internally as a "horizontal review."
Policymakers need to estimate the timing for a revival in bank lending when deciding when to withdraw emergency credit programs and record monetary stimulus. While the Fed has pumped billions of dollars of liquidity into financial institutions, total bank credit to the economy grew just 2 percent in August compared with the same month last year, according to Fed data.
The decision by Bayer HealthCare to manufacture future versions of its hemophilia drug Kogenate isn't just about the patients. It's also a major relief for Berkeley and Oakland. Earlier this year, Bayer hinted it was considering a move out of Berkeley.
"There has definitely been a lot of bad news with abercrombie and fitch NUMMI leaving and the threat of Bayer possibly leaving, so it's nice to finally give people some good news," said Tom Bates, mayor of Berkeley. "This is not just important for Berkeley but for the region as well."
This is the largest investment ever made by Bayer on the Berkeley site, said Joerg Heidrich, head of Bayer HealthCare's product supply biotech organization.
nation
abercrombie and fitch sues Beyoncé
Teen clothing retailer abercrombie and fitch is suing singer Beyoncé Knowles over her plans for a fragrance named after Sasha Fierce, her alter ego.
Abercrombie & Fitch says in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Columbus, Ohio, that Knowles' intent to use the name constitutes trademark infringement, unfair competition and deceptive trade practices.
New Albany, Ohio-based Abercrombie says its Abercrombie & Fitch Trading Co. subsidiary has owned the Fierce trademark since 2002 for its own men's fragrance.
It asks the court to order Knowles to halt her plan to sell a fragrance with a similar name.
abercrombie and fitch says sales of its fragrance have exceeded $190 million. It projects 2009 sales at $64 million.
washington
Fed looks at medium-size lenders
Federal Reserve supervisors are examining the vulnerability of medium-size lenders to falling commercial real-estate values to gauge the size of potential losses across the banking system.
The Fed is focusing on banks smaller than the 19 largest lenders examined in detail in May, a central bank official said on condition of anonymity. The process involves gathering data from individual banks and comparing it with their peers, an approach known internally as a "horizontal review."
Policymakers need to estimate the timing for a revival in bank lending when deciding when to withdraw emergency credit programs and record monetary stimulus. While the Fed has pumped billions of dollars of liquidity into financial institutions, total bank credit to the economy grew just 2 percent in August compared with the same month last year, according to Fed data.
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