Are you beautiful enough?

Not long ago I wanted to get some new clothes and decided to try out Abercrombie & Fitch. After a few minutes I started to feel that the staff in the store were eyeing me out to work out if I was good looking enough to be shopping in their store. This started to make me uncomfortable and so I left the shop with nothing.

When I did some research into Abercrombie & Fitch I found out many news articles, blogs, forums and comments saying almost the some thing. Which is, they only allow thin and beautiful customers to shop in their stores.

As one person explains 'Abercrombie & Fitch doesn't make its womenswear above large, or pants above a size ten, they have been accused of purposefully excluding plus-sized customers.'

In 2004, the company was sued for giving positions to white applicants, to the exclusion of minorities; and in June 2009, British student Riam Dean, who was born without a left forearm, won approximately $12,000 in an employment tribunal.

Then I started to notice that Abercrombie & Fitch were not the only ones refusing service to customers because of the way they look or what they believe in. There was a case where a florist was sued for refusing service to gay couple.

There have even been cases where customers been refused service because the customer did not want to give them there name.

This kind of attitude of company's being highly selective of there customers e.g. sexual orientation, religion, wealth or looks, and refusing to serve a particular type of person or even chucking the customer out because of the way they look, should be against human rights or a hate crime and people have won cases against companies that do this.