Talk:Hollister Co.

message: The most popular edit for this article seems to be the age they target. There's a small edit war between the high-school oriented targeting and the college-oriented targeting. Can we get some legitimate sources on this?--Aleron235 04:49, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Target age

message: A passage was recently added about information gleaned from an interview with a Hollister employee. Was this a personal interview a person did for Wikipedia, or something published somewhere? If the person who added it is reading this, please post your source.--Aleron235 18:57, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Interview" 

message: The entire history section is unsourced and/or original research. I don't see anything worth keeping and think it should be deleted. --Iliaskarim 05:13, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You can use, I believe, one of the employee handbooks, which is where i think was the first time this had been shown to me. I do remember management telling associates of a new store most of this as well, so if it was not in the employee booklets, it is in something which is given to them. so, not sure whether that helps or not, but either way, i do think the lawsuit section should be completely removed.Kmccusker2 07:21, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: Need to be updated! I added some in Houston, TX. There has got to be MUCH more Hollister stores out there! Or how about removing the locations list all together? The abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch, and RUEHL pages don't list all the locations.
There are many typos in various city names (ie: Rancho Cucamonda instead of Rancho Cucamonga), and only certain Southern California locations have receive the label "Los Angeles Area". A notable location that was left out was Irvine's Irvine Spectrum location, which is in Orange County. Compare to Newport Beach's Fashion Island location which did receive the notation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Amavel (talk • contribs) 
:I agree that the list needs to be removed. The formatting is awful and it doesn't add anything to the article. I'll remove it unless disagreed here.. --Iliaskarim 03:54, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Locations 

message: Please stop reverting the page everytime progressive edits are attempted. The blurb from A&F doesn't add any useful information to the entry and it's simply their marketing blurb. My edits on the target demographic, however do add information and they're not from marketing. The 'possible copmetitors' sentence is ridiculously POV and must be sourced if it's expected to stay. (btw who in their right mind would say that Hollister competes with Ralph Lauren?? jeez) --Iliaskarim 03:58, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV Reverts 

message: Should this article be protected? I was looking at archived versions of the page and I noticed a lot of vandalism, and currently the history section is under the external links, I also deleted comments made by some users that like to mess up an article for the fun of it.
Also are the contents supposed to be on the right hand side where the company info is?
I don't want to mess up the history section, I'll let more experienced users deal with that :)
--~*Twinkler4*~ 00:34, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: There are so few sources for this article that it may make more sense to merge and redirect thematerial back to the main A&F article.  ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 00:15, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: agreedKmccusker2 06:07, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge/redirect 

message: I removed this section- it was WAY to suspicious.
*First of all, why is it illegal to request a photo ID to do a return?
*There was no other source. I searched it on google, and there were no other results other than wikipedia.
*It said you get a $5 gift card if you were asked for ID. It just sounded too much like a WP:HOAX.
If anyone can find a source for this, please re add the section to the article. As for now, lets keep it out.  --Nenyedi TalkDeeds@  22:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Now that you mention it, the editor who added the information in the first place (here) doesn't exactly invite confidence with her edit history. Precious Roy 05:04, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  doubted this at first. but its a true lawsuit/class action settlement. found it on the bottom of the hollisterco.com site under CA class notice.  http://www.hollisterco.com/hol/ca_class_notice.pdf     Kmccusker2 03:24, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Morris vs. Abercrombie & Fitch, Co.

message: There was a paragraph which I removed that basically amounted to, "Some people think their prices are too high, other people think their clothes are good enough to buy them at the post prices."  This is probably true of every retail store on the planet, to one degree or another.  Is there anything special about Hollister in this regard that is documented in published sources? -- Beland 15:55, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prices 

message: I'm not necessarily the best writer, but I found this and thought that it was very interesting.  If anybody has seen the live video feeds of Huntington Beach, California in some larger Hollister stores, this has a lot of information on the technology behind that.  Essentially, they've got some high-end cameras piping data over multiple T1 lines, through a private narrowscast, and into the individual stores.  Very cool.
http://www.proavmagazine.com/Retail_Restaurants/June20527200532500PM.htm  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zriggle (talk • contribs) 00:52, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Live Video of Huntington Beach 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Official Hollister Logo.PNG

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thread_title:  TfD nomination of [[:Template:{{ucfirst:Abercrombie & Fitch brand}}]] 

message: Here is the relevant text at the citation:
Here is our text:
I think we are making unsupported statements. First, nowhere in the source does it say that the appeal of any clothing line is "universal". Second, the ranking is ambiguous. "West Coast Brands " appears to be a category of fashion retailing, meaning that the entire category is number one, with no indication of how individual retailers would be ranked. However since four of them are listed and it goes on the say, "followed by", it's possible that Hollister is actually ranked fifth. Finally, the phrase "despite the age target" appears nonsensical. It would make more sense to say "because of the age target", since they are targeting teenagers. I think we can better summarize this source by saying something like, "In an October 2008 survey, Hollister was high on the list of teenagers' brand preferences."   Will Beback  talk   23:29, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Piper Jaffray 

message: Abercrombie shuts New York store due to bedbugs --CliffC (talk) 02:36, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "the senior management blew off complaints about bedbugs for almost a month" --CliffC (talk) 02:41, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bedbug news, July 1 

message: It appears we have contradictory information regarding the origins of the name of Hollister. According to this edit summary, "I have spoken with the HCo marketing dept and they told me they tried to do a photo shoot here [the Hollister Ranch] because it is the company's namesake". However, this article from the Los Angeles Times states that "Despite rumors that the clothing line was named for the town or a popular surf spot near Santa Barbara, Cupps said Abercrombie & Fitch pulled the Hollister name out of thin air and then created a storyline to project a Southern California beach vibe to go with the surf-wear line.". Dough4872 01:09, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: the article mentions nothing about the Hollister Ranch. If we can find a source for it we might mention that fact. However there's nothing at the linked site which has anything to do with clothing. It mostly concerns real estate.   Will Beback  talk   06:32, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: So should the linked site be removed, even if it turns out the clothing store was named after the ranch? Dough4872 01:26, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I see its already been removed. Dough4872 04:47, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see why we'd link to the ranch site, even if it's the namesake. It has nothing to do with the clothes brand. If there was a special connection between the ranch and clothing, like they developed a style, then it would make sense. Aside from its nice location and its unusual ownership and visitation policy, it seems like a typical ranch with no special history. But if we ever get a source connecting them we can revisit the issue.   Will Beback  talk   04:55, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Namesake of store 

message: Parts of the article read too much like an ad. I removed some WP:PEACOCK phrases, ("coolest store", "memorable", "fashionable", etc.) Also added a "cite needed" on the "walking self-marketing" paragraph. (I tried to find a cite for that. A Google search for "walking self-marketing" turns up many hits with text close to the Wikipedia text. This article was apparently used as content for a blog spam generator, so now there are hundreds of hits on that phrase, most associated with some coupon scam.. No legit source not derived from Wikipedia was found.) --John Nagle (talk) 20:45, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Took out the uncited "walking self-marketing paragraph" - after two months, no one found a reference. --John Nagle (talk) 20:11, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Toned down hype some more. Incidentally, the "future expansion" section needs attention, because it's out of date, referring to possible future events with dates now in the past. John Nagle (talk) 20:38, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toned down hype a bit - too much advertising 

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message: Hello,
By way of disclosure, we are associates of Abercrombie & Fitch Co., which owns Hollister, and we would like to provide some edits to this page that update some of the outdated information.
Please advise on the best way for these edits to be incorporated into the current page.
Thanks, A&F Co. Communications Team.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anfpublicrelations (talk • contribs) 16:38, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  General Updates Needed