Talk:Old Navy
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[edit] Recent addition about labor practices
The following sentence:
- These claims were subsequently mitigated through highly beneficial labor practices, resulting in Old Navy® receiving excellent scores from national ranking agencies.
...was added in this edit without sourcing. Is that true? Can someone provide a source? -GTBacchus(talk) 07:35, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Unsourced info
- Criticism
- Since Old Navy is owned by The Gap, the company has been included in accusations of sweatshop labor practices. These claims were subsequently mitigated through highly beneficial labor practices, resulting in Old Navy® receiving excellent scores from national ranking agencies.
This is basically gossip and counter-gossip (which is also gossip), until someone ponies up sources (a) making the allegation of sweatshop practices and (b) showing that Old Navy received "excellent scores". GTBacchus(talk) 17:11, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] POV?
This article reads like an advertisement for Old Navy, chirping up their annoying ad campaigns as if they were a giant adoration fest that was wrapped like a big blanket of love around the viewers. Now I'm not saying that we have to outline just how many people they've infuriated over the years, but this article really does sound like an advertisement, especially such lines as "Old Navy is best known for their inexpensive clothing and rubber flip flops, which many wear, that come in black, white, green, blue, etc." It would be good if someone would rewrite this thing without it needing to be marked for a NPOV review or something, but I'll slap one on there if need be. -RannXXV 06:56, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
- Doing some rewrites. That sentence was the first thing to go - good call. -GTBacchus(talk) 07:29, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
- I just found where that sentence came from, and found the best contributions page ever:Special:Contributions/69.115.139.93. Now that's a distinguished edit history! -GTBacchus(talk) 07:46, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
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- Wow. No wonder so many people wear those flip-flops. c.c -RannXXV 08:00, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Ok, the first paragraph under ad campaigns is still bizarre, albeit without the word "retroistic", but I think I've done enough damage for one evening. Does it still seem POV? I feel like it's at least better, if not completely fixed. -GTBacchus(talk) 08:22, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
- Definitely looks a bit better. It probably could use some more work, but no need to knock yourself out over it, heh. -RannXXV 08:25, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Canadian prices
"In 2001, Old Navy opened 12 stores in Canada, offerring the same products at slightly higher prices."
Call me an idiot, but isn't this because of the currency rate? Peanutbuttercups 12:02, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
- One would assume. Perhaps the person that wrote that passage was confused. -RannXXV 23:41, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Name?
According to Old Navy's page at gapinc.com, (on the right under "DID YOU KNOW?") "Old Navy was named after a bar in Paris." This differs from what the article states: "The name "Old Navy" was chosen because originally the stores were supposed to imitate the look and feel of a traditional military surplus store." I'm not sure how this should be incorporated this in the article. -Squeak 01:03, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Well I work for old navy and from what I've been told, Old Navy was named just to be an all American store. It was only opened in 1994 and I can tell you for a fact, today, we do not sell anything related to Army or the navy.. we use to see camo colored pants.. but not anytime recently. So who knows. Besides, with the company opening 54 Old Navy's in the first year, I honestly don't care haha. -streetblader51 01:53, 6 August 2006
