Talk:American Eagle Outfitters

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- I'm not sure this should be here: "Unlike Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle Outfitters relies less on sexualized advertisements and catalogs, and is generally viewed as more "clean cut" as a brand. Often, their advertisments instead include a teenaged boy and girls laughing with the logo "Live Your Life" underneath it."
The actual Abercrombie clothing catalog doesn't contain anything remotly sexual, the last edition didnt have a picture of a single person in it. Also, Abercrombie doesn't have any form of advertising anymore. No commercials, no paper ads, and no sponsorships or promotions.

I moved the page from "American Eagle (retailer)" to American Eagle Outfitters, the full technical name of the company. A few pages, which were already linking to "American Eagle Outfitters" have been satisfied with other pages linking to the old term having been changed.

Good job with re-doing the article :)

I noticed a discrepancy between the entry for American Eagle Outfitters and that of its CEO, Jay L. Schottenstein. The AE entry attributes Schottenstein and others with owning a 14% stake in the company, whereas his personal entry credits him with 26.5%. I'm not knowledgeable on how to go about fixing/annotating these things in wikipedia.

I noticed you said that American Eagle was founded in 1904. Well then, how come all my shirts from American Eagle say 1977 on them. Please either correct that misleading fact, for cite your source... thanks, bosmith319.

This has little to do with the article adrressing: "The companies have each created picture logos to brand several of their products; American Eagle Outfitters' being a landing eagle, Aeropostale's a standing bulldog for boys and butterfly for girls, Abercrombie & Fitch's a standing moose, and Hollister flying seagull. The usage of animals for logos imitates previously established companies such as Polo Ralph Lauren (using a Polo horse) and Lacoste (using a snapping crocodile). Additionally, American Eagle emphasizes on their date of establishment, 1977, in their marketing and design, branding the majority of their products with the date." each one of these pages should have that info, it is irrelevanto to know what lacoste or hollister, firtime introduced here, have for mascots.

That is relevent. Based off the fact that AE didn't always use the "Stylized Eagle" until Abercrombie (and sister company Hollister) started using the Moose. I've also tagged the article as not referencing sourcing. 69.15.176.66 17:53, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pittsburgh Project Assessment

Gave rating as B class and as mid importance. Generally reserve high importance ratings for Fortune 500 companies in Pittsburgh. PadreNuestro 02:24, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Labor practices

Can we add a section about AEO's labor practices in its manufacturing or retail areas? AEO pays their workers crap in the United States and probably in the third world too... 69.248.57.12 14:13, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AE actually prides itself in paying their suppliers well, which totally undermines the latest "American Vulture" boycott. AE follows standard and contemporary protocol. Retail starts at minimum wage and goes up based on performance with certain exceptions such as previous experience and whatnot. Quixotic Rick 05:55, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

American Eagle shoes are available at Payless Shoes — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.112.21.249 (talk • contribs)

That's actually different. The shoes that they sell at American Eagle are different than the ones at Payless. Quixotic Rick 01:54, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The chairman section of the intro

This paragraph is awkward. It mentions a couple of persons and a family that own a total of 14% of AE. Why is this needed in the intro? It seems like the people who are mentioned in the blurb were the people who added it(mostly schottenstein). I'm sure shareholder info has a place in articles but it throws a wrench into the flow of the intro, especially when considering it is simply for vanity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.78.218.58 (talk • contribs)

Attention

I'm going to delete a bunch of stuff because it reeks of bias. Based on that, and the horrible grammatical mistakes, I'm going to say this was either written by an employee of AE or a 15-year old. Or both. Riskbreaker927 18:12, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

American Eagle outsource

Just a small thing I have noticed, American Eagle outsources, and not a single product is made in America. I added a little bit in the part about expansion, but I think it probabally can be mentioned in a better part. Javascap 21:40, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, your edit because it seems to me like that statement is Original Research, since you have cited no sources. Please cite a source. Strongsauce 01:36, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is it even notable, as most clothing stores do outsource? I've removed it anyway due to vandalism before it. Don't let me stop you from putting it back if a source can be found. --Squeak 02:22, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'd just like to make a comment on this. As far as I know, AE does outsource and I think it should definitely be put into the article on it. You should also put a few comments on how AE does not do fair trade...as in they do not pay worthwhile wages in the 3rd world countries they use. a penny a day sort of thing. i don't actually have the time to do all this myself. but, I do think someone should add this as it is important. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.185.30.207 (talk) 08:56, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

B?

I'm not quite sure why this article received such a high grade. It is not cohesive at all and really doesn't give very much background on the company. If someone had never been to an American Eagle store and they read this article, I'm not quite sure they would have any clue as to what the stores are like. I would try to fix this article but I can't even figure out where to start. Illinois2011 | Talk 00:01, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Age

As on the Abercrombie and Fitch main page, I think it would be helpful to design a chart with age and brand demographics.

Akean89 (talk) 18:02, 21 May 2008 (UTC)akean89[reply]