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Urban Outfitters Has a “Bogus” Plan to Hire More Women
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/24/2013
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Philly-based Urban Outfitters, which calls the Navy Yard home, has come under fire lately for not having an all-male board. To solve that problem, CEO Richard Hayne has added one Margaret Hayne to the board. Margaret Hayne is Richard's wife. And folks are not happy about that.
The state treasurer of Connecticut called Urban Outfitters' proposal to add CEO Richard Hayne's wife Margaret Hayne to its all-male board "cynical" and an "insult," according to a statement by the New York and Connecticut state pension funds, the Catholic Sisters of Mercy, and the Calvert and Portico investment funds.
"Bogus," added someone else. To
Urban Outfitters Will Trade Cash Registers for iPads
By Mike Bertha 10/01/2012
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Urban Outfitters has announced its plan to phase out cash registers. Instead, cashiers will ring you up on iPads because it's the future, you guys. The iPads apparently cost 20 percent of the price of the registers and are more versatile. Employees with also be outfitted (see what I did there) with iPod touches so as to coordinate with the iPads. Until, of course, the machines rise up and enslave us all. The end is nigh. [Yahoo!]
Urban Outfitters Wants Ecommerce First, Stores Second
By Mike Bertha 9/11/2012
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Urban Outfitters generates $2.5 billion of revenue annually. Of that $2.5 billion, nearly 25 percent of it comes from online sales. In the coming years, though, Urban Outfitters plans to increase the share of the revenue generated by ecommerce. The company is set to expand its ecommerce team, open a facility to house the newly-expanded ecommerce team, reduce the number of physical store locations, and offer promotions exclusively available online in order to convert in-store into Internet customers. [Technically Philly]
Urban Outfitters Pisses Off Mothers Against Drunk Driving
By Mike Bertha 8/29/2012
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Mothers Against Drunk Driving are also apparently against stupid T-shirts that reference alcohol consumption. The MADD organization is all upset over Urban Outfitters shirts that feature slogans like, "I DRINK YOU'RE CUTE" and "I Vote for Vodka." Apparently, members of the organization think that the shirts are inappropriate for anyone under 21. That's comical because the only people that would be caught dead in these shirts are 16-year-old girls trying to get people to buy them over-priced, watered-down booze smoothies on the lawn at Dave Matthews Band concerts just so they can make out with Suzy's boyfriend and then throw
Urban Outfitters Is Selling Mitt Romney Gear to Hipsters
By Mike Bertha 6/01/2012
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Are you "2 legit 2 Mitt?" If so, you might want to stop by an Urban Outfitters and check out their new line of Mitt Romney shirts. That's right, Urban Outfitters is offering multiple Romney-themed shirts, including one with a picture of an oven mitt that says "ROMNEY" underneath it and one that reads, "MITT IS THE SHIT." Get 'em while they're hot ironic something that exists, you guys. [Urban Outfitters]
