Today brought a bifold dosage of bad account for abercrombie and fitch. (ANF). On top of black balance for the additional quarter, the Associated Press letters that a London cloister has ordered the accouterment alternation to pay a disabled agent about $15,000 for afflicted animosity and blameworthy dismissal.
The cloister angry down a bigotry affirmation that abercrombie and fitch had disputed.
Riam Dean, a 22-year-old university student, had complained that her administration would not let her abrasion a sweater to awning her prosthetic arm and approved to about-face her off the boutique floor. Dean's clothing claimed that she was told she didn't fit in with the "look policy" at the chain's abundance on Savile Row in axial Londo abercrombie and fitch has run into agitation in the accomplished for putting appearance aboriginal if hiring. Five years ago, it acclimatized several application bigotry apparel in the U.S.
And the hits kept coming. This morning, abercrombie and fitch acquaint black second-quarter balance -- a net accident of $19.8 million, due to $24.4 actor in accuse from closing down the Ruehl chain.
The company's same-store sales down 30 percent, to $648.5 million, over the additional division of 2008. Sales at the abercrombie and fitch food were down 27 percent, and same-store sales at Hollister were down 31 percent. Back-to-school is axis into a dejected time.
