2009年9月25日星期五

Abercrombie & Fitch dinged for discrimination

I wrote a post for Walletpop suggesting that perhaps the young woman's complaint should mark the end of the road for A&F, a brand that has experienced more than its fair share of discrimination controversies -- and one that's now also battling a grave downturn in sales.
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The proposal -- which I freely admit was a radical one -- was met with heated responses on both sides. I learned that very definitely many people are sick and tired of abercrombie and fitch's near-constant, winking prejudices, as well as its sometimes-shoddy product quality and its always too-cool-for-school salespeople.

And speaking of school, lots of people on the other side of the argument inferred that my assessment of A&F was inspired by my being either severely unpopular in high school, overweight, a minority, or a self-loathing Caucasian. What all of them agreed on was that my post utterly lacked objectivity.
A London tribunal today ruled that Riam Dean, 22, suffered unlawful harassment when she was an employee at abercrombie and fitch. She was awarded $13,256.81, or £8,000 pounds.

Dean, who has a prosthetic arm, had sued the company after her store manager allegedly forced her to wear a cardigan to cover the prosthesis, then demoted her from a sales position on the floor to a stockroom job.
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