Abercrombie hates fat people

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http://elitedaily.com/news/world/abercrombie-fitch-ceo-explains-why-he-hates-fat-chicks/
Anyone who’s been to Abercrombie & Fitch in the last few years has probably noticed that they don’t carry XL or XXL sizes of women’s clothing because they don’t want overweight women wearing their brand.

According to this popular teen clothing retailer, fat chicks will just never be a part of the “in” crowd.

They take a big risk with this tactic because two of Abercrombie’s biggest competitors, H&M and American Eagle, both offer XXL sizes for men and women.

The largest women’s pants available at Abercrombie are a size 10, while H&M goes up to 16 and American Eagle goes even farther to 18.
Abercrombie’s attitude towards plus-sized women derives from CEO Mike Jeffries. Robin Lewis, author of The New Rules of Retail, spoke to Business Insider about the kind of people Jeffries wants advertising his brand.

“He doesn’t want larger people shopping in his store, he wants thin and beautiful people,” Lewis said. “He doesn’t want his core customers to see people who aren’t as hot as them wearing his clothing. People who wear his clothing should feel like they’re one of the ‘cool kids.’”

Lewis said that the only reason Abercrombie offers XL and XXL in men’s sizes is to appeal to large athletes.

In a 2006 interview with Salon, Jeffries confirmed that the communication between hot people is his primary marketing tactic.

“It’s almost everything. That’s why we hire good-looking people in our stores. Because good-looking people attract other good-looking people, and we want to market to cool, good-looking people. We don’t market to anyone other than that,” he said.

Jeffries also told Salon that he wasn’t bothered by excluding fat people. In fact, he said that not limiting his ideal demographic would make his clothing less desirable.

“In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids,” he told the site. “Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely. Those companies that are in trouble are trying to target everybody: young, old, fat, skinny. But then you become totally vanilla. You don’t alienate anybody, but you don’t excite anybody, either,” he told Salon.

One might wonder why Mike Jeffries only wants to be in the company of good-looking people. That curiosity will end after seeing what this freak looks like.

After seeing a picture of Mike Jeffries, it can only be concluded that he was never around good-looking people as a kid and is now making up for the glamorous youth he wishes he had.

Is Mike Jeffries the worst CEO in the world? Here are the 13 most ridiculous things that Abercrombie’s CEO has ever said.
 

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The webpage isn't loading properly for me :bpwtf:

Edit: Thanks for posting the article.

His "cool-kid" reasoning is beyond retarded and not to mention extremely gay. It's not surprising that people call it Abercrombie & bytch

Although... If what he's doing is upping his profit, let him eat. I don't want to see anymore women in tacky ass clothes anyway :mjpls:
 

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nothing wrong with this ...it's called "target marketing". it may be "mean" but companies should have that right. i'm not defending abercromie btw ...they've gone beyond target marketing and actually used racist terms to describe their clothing. that's completely different and fukked up. i'm just speaking generally target marketing should be ok....every product isn't for everyone.
 

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had no idea about this shyt. i could have sworn i saw some sloppy white bytch one day with some abercrombie sweats on in the gym. maybe it was some mens sweats :manny:
 

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Their clothes are fukking trash and their marketing is extremely weird to me, but who cares about fat shaming? It's unattractive and a sign of bad health.
 

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lmao at xxl shirt wearer's being "large athletes" :russ:

i didn't figure they would be down with sumo wrestlers
 

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I respect his honesty ...did he have bad plastic surgery?

But yeah it's target marketing he's not the only one hes just putting it out there but in todays pc society its risky to alienate any group ...I still don't feel it affects sales too much but bad pr isn't something shareholders are crazy about
 
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