These have always seemed like strange mistakes for a company to make over and over again, but they’re easier to understand if you’ve read the reporting on Jeffries, including this from Salon in 2006:
As far as Jeffries is concerned, America’s unattractive, overweight or otherwise undesirable teens can shop elsewhere. “In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids,” he says. “Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.
Swell guy. Swell company.
Nice find by Bloomberg.
Fret over what a private individual does with his own money; ignore what the president et al. are doing with everyone's money.
#1 Posted by Dan A., CJR on Fri 19 Oct 2012 at 03:45 PM
shareholders' money is not the CEO's own money.
#2 Posted by Ryan Chittum, CJR on Fri 19 Oct 2012 at 06:04 PM
"And, apparently, paid for by shareholders." -CJR
Correction: Fret over what a private individual does with his apparently shareholder-provided compensation; ignore what the president et al. are doing with everyone's money.
#3 Posted by Dan A., CJR on Fri 19 Oct 2012 at 11:02 PM