Why is Abercrombie/Hollister so LOUD??

[RadioNate]

Well unless a shopper was forced into the store, they wlling subjected themselves to the perfume.


They aren't catering to your size. You are not their target demographic. Just like Lane Bryant doesn't welcome size 2s. This is no different.

I swear, everytime I go in there it gets louder.

Considering you can smell the store 50 yards outside the doors there is nothing willing about it. At our mall they are upstairs and if you are on the 'concourse' below you can smell them. The adjacent stores carry traces of the smell too.

Just walking in the vicinity has triggered a headache & flaired up my asthma on more than one occasion.

 

[marcyinPA]

"Welcome to Hollister! Here's your gas mask, your flashlight, and your earplugs!"

 

[marcyinPA]

I flat out-refuse to shop at Abercrombie, since they don't have clothes that accomodate my size. (which, btw, is a pant size 14 and a shirt size large) Their extra large shirts are tight on me. So basically, as soon as you get hips and a butt and heaven forbid you "grow" above a size 8 (I think the largest their pants go up to is a 10!!!) you are not welcome there anymore.

As for the sales help, they are trained NOT to help people. They are there for the sole reason of "modeling" the clothes. Their official job title is "model". They are not there for your assistance

However, I do love to shop at Hollister The clothes (well the shirts at least) fit me and they are cheaper (I always ALWAYS buy clearance). They have cuter stuff and the sales help actually helps you!!!

The perfume does get on my nerves, but the music doesn't.

I only shop there for my DS15...I'd never shop there for myself! The target market is the teenage population, not 30 somethings and 40 somethings. IMHO, people over the mid to late 20's range look silly wearing the teenage brands!

 

[Pooh Crew]

Another poster mentioned half naked pics in the gift cards, and I just wanted to add that the Abercrombie kids store in our mall (which is for the younger kids because my children are eleven and small for their age and fit into clothes) had posters up -- great big posters with a man completely naked from behind and a woman with a shirt held up to cover her ta-tas! Seriously, my eleven yr old daughters do NOT need to see a man's naked behind! I immediately walked out of the store...without buying anything, of course! Totally inappropriate for a kids store!

 

[wvjules]

Considering you can smell the store 50 yards outside the doors there is nothing willing about it. At our mall they are upstairs and if you are on the 'concourse' below you can smell them. The adjacent stores carry traces of the smell too.

Just walking in the vicinity has triggered a headache & flaired up my asthma on more than one occasion.

Didn't think of the just walking by people.

I also don't understand how the mall management says they can't do anything about it because it is that store's company policy. Wouldn't mall lease agreements trump a store's corporate policy?

 

[coolshannie]

We are told to tell you it is apart of the atmosphere. Trust me we hate it as much as you do.

 

[tink1969]

Because you're old?

(me too).

That's just how I feel when I'm in Hollister/Abercrombie with my teenaged daughter!

 

[Golf4food]

I'm much more concerned with choking to death on their horrid perfume cloud of death than going deaf from the loud music...

 

[RitaZ.]

It's probably to confuse parents into buying their low quality (yet highly priced) merchandise. I have been in that store once and that was enough for me.