Abercrombie & Fitch once offered the cast of Jersey Shore significant amounts of money to stop wearing their clothes. The American retailer feared that the association between the questionable reality TV series and their clothes would hurt their image overall. Ironically, the clothing brand’s stock value dropped by 9% on the first day of trading after the offer was sent to the cast of Jersey Shore, but this is said to have merely been a coincidence.
100 Mind-Blowing Retailer Facts
71% of people in Iceland have a Costco membership. With just under 357,000 people, Iceland is far from being an overly-populated country. That means that there are around 253,000 Icelanders with access to the members-only wholesale retailer. While this is far less than the number of members in the US, there’s only one Costco store in the entire country!