Comments on: Thoughts on this week’s H&M debacle http://fashionlovespeople.com/2010/01/08/thought-on-this-weeks-hm-debacle/ ethical fashion (that loves you back) Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:14:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Zara launched online shopping in the U.S. this week. But is it ethical? | Global Fashion of the world http://fashionlovespeople.com/2010/01/08/thought-on-this-weeks-hm-debacle/comment-page-1/#comment-96532 Zara launched online shopping in the U.S. this week. But is it ethical? | Global Fashion of the world Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:09:33 +0000 http://fashionlovespeople.com/?p=1663#comment-96532 [...] think their market will respond to, but if demand isn’t as high as expected, we end up with slashed clothes being thrown out by H&M and excess orders being sold off to discount stores like Marshall’s and TJ [...] [...] think their market will respond to, but if demand isn’t as high as expected, we end up with slashed clothes being thrown out by H&M and excess orders being sold off to discount stores like Marshall’s and TJ [...]

]]> By: jessie http://fashionlovespeople.com/2010/01/08/thought-on-this-weeks-hm-debacle/comment-page-1/#comment-3457 jessie Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:45:42 +0000 http://fashionlovespeople.com/?p=1663#comment-3457 i can't say that i'm terribly surprised to hear this, but it is pretty unfortunate. i remember reading something else really similar about anthropologie in the last year or so. the article mentioned that they destroy and then throw away their merchandise if it gets marked down to a price that is less than their "level of quality"... i think an employee somewhere also leaked that the main reason that they do this is that because if their prices reflected those of a "discount store", then their demographics of their clientele would change and that would then have a negative impact on their brand. crazy. i can’t say that i’m terribly surprised to hear this, but it is pretty unfortunate.

i remember reading something else really similar about anthropologie in the last year or so. the article mentioned that they destroy and then throw away their merchandise if it gets marked down to a price that is less than their “level of quality”…

i think an employee somewhere also leaked that the main reason that they do this is that because if their prices reflected those of a “discount store”, then their demographics of their clientele would change and that would then have a negative impact on their brand.

crazy.

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