Urban Outfitters: Don't go in there in the first place.

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Rip Unravels Family's Shopping Trip

By John Kelly
Friday, December 16, 2005; Page C09

The manager at Urban Outfitters seemed awfully frosty when I got her on the phone. She runs the Urban Outfitters store at Tysons Corner Center, but she used to be the manager of the Urban Outfitters on Seventh Street NW, and I wanted to talk to her about something that happened there in June.

But she immediately got defensive. She gave me the phone number for the Urban Outfitters head office and then said: "I can't speak to you about it, and if you pursue me -- if you keep trying to contact me, now that I have given you the company's number -- I will regard it as a form of harassment."

As it happened, nobody from Urban Outfitters would return my calls. And after you read this story, you might see why.
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My advice: If someone from Urban Outfitters asks you to go back into her store, run like hell. Even better: Don't go in there in the first place.

Google for "Richard Hayne Santorum"

Richard Hayne is the owner of Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie.

For example, from Philadelphia Weekly: Clothes Make the Man

But the difference between stage-crafted storefront image and corporate reality doesn't end there. It extends all the way to the top, to the man who built the company from scratch--Richard Hayne, Urban Outfitters' president and founder.

While the typical Urban Outfitters shopper is likely to be liberal-minded--as is the province and privilege of youth--the fiftysomething Hayne is mom-and-apple-pie conservative. He and his wife Margaret have contributed $13,150 to the campaign coffers of Paleolithic right-wing Republican Sen. Rick Santorum and his Political Action Committee over the years.