Analysis Of Going For The Look But Risking Discrimination By Steve Greenhouse

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In the Steve Greenhouse’s article, “Going for the Look, but Risking Discrimination”, he states “Hiring attractive people is not necessarily illegal, but discriminating on the basis of age, sex, and ethnicity is.” Big name brand companies have found a successful way to gain more customers, by hiring young and attractive college kids. Retailers find outside beauty more valuable than what is on the inside. Marshall Cohen says “A guy wants to go hang out in a store where he can see good-looking gals”, and I could not agree more. As a business owner you would want it to become very successful, some are willing to do anything to achieve that. Abercrombie and Fitch are one of them. A&F hires people with a preppy American look, they hire young good-looking people who will rock their clothes. If you walk into one of those stores it is mainly white employees, some say it is discrimination but it is not the companies fault only a certain group of people fit that look. In stores, where all the models are what we call hip and the entire store has that young vibe, everyone feels tempted to buy the product so that they can look and feel like a million bucks. Skinny, beautiful models are advertised in magazines that give the attempt to influence readers if the buy the same products they too can be beautiful.…show more content…
If you care about your image, most likely others will too. Companies try to influence what is going to be the next big trend, they have to keep their stores presented in a way that will make people turn towards it. Even if people can not see it, if they walk by they will no doubt smell it. Hollister and Abercrombie both have dark stores with lighting that make it seem futuristic. All their clothes have their signature perfume, employees that are breath taking with stylish clothes and even attractive men that have muscular bodies, printed right onto their shopping

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