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Originally Posted by DBlain  I guess I am in the minority, I have never shopped in their stores, but I do think that companies have a right to market to who they want to market to. And even better yet the consumer has a right to shop at stores that best fit their needs. I applaud how easy the CFO makes it for us/me to know that his store is not the right store for me. |
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Originally Posted by DBlain also if I owned a business I would want to hire people that looked like or attacted the type of person I was looking to attract. Let's face it, it would be dumb to hire bald men if you were selling hair replacement solutions |
Donna, I do agree with your points. It's a free country, and we are free to practice whatever religion we want, follow whatever political party we want, and spend our hard earned dollars at which ever business we want. However, to blatantly say in an interview that his company's products are only for cool good looking all American kids who have lots of friends....what? It works the other way too. We are free to (ie have the right to) buy whatever products we want if we can (or in some cases can't) afford them. Ever see a hopelessly unhip person wearing designer jeans? An un-juicy girl wearing Juicy sweatpants?
And the girls at Hooters (one of my friends is a former one).. of course they are supposed to be hot. But to publicly say it, I think that's where most people have the problem. There are laws here that say you cannot discriminate against people for how they look, their sexual orientation, their religion, but people do it; but they don't broadcast that they do. This guy did. And look at him!
Perhaps Maximo is right in that it was just for publicity. He didn't get much flack for it back in 2006 when he said it. Now that his brands are dying out, this came back out. Hmmmm. Also 2006 was around the height of this brand, so maybe he felt invincible?