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Schuman, Michael (13 May 2013). "What They'll Wear to the Revolution". Time Magazine.
Wolverson, Roya (1 July 2011). "What the U.S. Can Learn from Uniqlo". Time Magazine. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
Laird, Kristin (8 July 2013). "Uniqlo: The heir apparel". Marketing. Rogers Publishing. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
Brasor, Philip (7 March 2013). "Uniqlo not as different as its workers thought it would be". The Japan Times. Retrieved 28 August 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Clifford, Stephanie (22 May 2012). "As U.S. Retailers Retreat, a Japanese Chain Sees an Opening". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 August 2013.

Labour Record

Does anyone know anything about Uniqlo's labour record? (Use of sweatshop labour etc). 86.25.198.166 (talk) 23:42, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, but I second the call for a section on labour. A section devoted to criticisms, if there are any, should also be acknowledged.--Drdak (talk) 09:12, 20 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Employees

Is the employees figure accurate? It seems unusually low. Rmannion 09:30, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Uniqlo new (English).png

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Urban Store

What does the parapraph about the history from 1998-2002 mean when it says "they opened their first urban UNIQLO store in Tokyo"? Fukuro-machi is right in the middle of downtown Hiroshima, which while not a city on the same scale of Tokyo is certainly not rural.

Lowercase title

Please note that on the English Wikipedia (as opposed to the Japanese one), products are not written in ALL-CAPS but following regular English usage. This trademark being a contraction of "unique clothing" (and spelled "Uniqlo" at reputable sources such as Time.com[1] or NYTimes.com[2]), it is written Uniqlo in the article per the guide at WP:MOSTM: "choose the style that most closely resembles standard English, regardless of the preference of the trademark owner" (Time not TIME). 62.147.24.53 (talk) 07:10, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Too much pointless data

The section on Uniqlock for example should be one or two sentences long at most. Who cares who many people downloaded it? If it has any importance it should say why, or not mention it at all. If there is on objection I'm gonna trim it down. Niczar ⏎ 14:46, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sources and accuracy

There seem to be a lot of "citation needed"-s.

A *LOT* more reliable than just the UNIQLO website is the Fast Retailing website, Fast Retailing being the parent company of UNIQLO.

If nobody has any objections, I would like to edit some the information to match it with that of the Fast Retailing website and also add more information about the relationship between the two.

Also, I noticed that the UNIQLO website claims its establishment date as September 2, 1974 but the Fast Retailing history doesn't say when UNIQLO was established, only that the first casual clothing UNIQLO store was opened in June 1984. So what happened in that decade...?

Himizuki (talk) 17:17, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The websites of companies are not considered to be reliable sources. Other sources (newspaper and magazine articles, for example) are much better. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 18:53, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Still needs work

I just completed several edits to address problems with clarity, lack of references, and non-notable details such as precise opening dates (which also lacked references). The article still needs a lot of work. 72.244.206.95 (talk) 02:12, 23 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Store Count Chart

Is there any reason for why the store count chart is in the order it is? Also I'm looking at deleting the second reference in the US section citing the closure of Uniqlo's New Jersey stores from it's first expansion into the US market, since the company has since moved back into that market. Travisn917 (talk) 22:10, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese name in Japan

Please add the simplified four-character Japanese?-version logo to the article, and explain it. Please translate/explain/discuss the Japanese name of the company. Please explain and discuss the usage of UNIQLO in Japan. Is this "English" branding significant or dominant in Japan? Is some version of this common in spoken or written references to the company within Japan? The US website features both versions of the logo, but the Japanese website features only UNI-QLO, more than the 4-char version! -96.233.22.219 (talk) 14:07, 15 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]