I can count on a couple fingers the number of times I’ve been crossed the threshold of an Abecrombie & Fitch store. I’ll happily shell out $70 for a pair of pants, but I prefer to do it in a place that doesn’t assault my ears with horrible Europop and the clothes don’t make me look like a douchebag-in-training. I don’t need another reason to avoid shopping there, but A&F’s corporate masters gave me one anyway. A sales clerk at the London store was banned from the sales floor and forced to work in the stockroom because her prosthetic arm didn’t comply with the company’s “Look Policy”. The clerk, also a law student, is now suing the company for discrimination. My guess is that the case will settle quickly and a few middle managers will get sent to diversity training.
Stores have the right to enforce a dress code, but A&F’s actions in this case border on the absurd. Are A&F customers so phobic of physical imperfections that they would be driven away by an attractive clerk with a prosthetic arm? If that is the case, perhaps the company should change its logo to something more fitting, like a swastika.
Lol, that was great.