{"id":6059,"date":"2014-11-12T09:54:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/?p=6059"},"modified":"2014-11-12T09:55:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:55:28","slug":"peeved-old-navy-charges-more-for-plus-size-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2014\/11\/peeved-old-navy-charges-more-for-plus-size-clothes.html","title":{"rendered":"Peeved! OLD NAVY CHARGES MORE FOR PLUS-SIZE CLOTHES!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fat Pants Cost More? by Janice Taylor, Weight Loss Coach, Hypnotherapist, Author, Artist, Positarian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Did you hear? Old Navy is selling plus sized women\u2019s clothing at a significant markup. \u201cWhat about men’s clothing,\u201d you ask?\u00a0 No, there\u2019s no mark-up for big men, only for plus-sized women.<\/p>\n

Gap Inc, its owner, says that the materials used for women are more expensive. I say, \u201cReally, Gap? The materials cost more for women but not for men? Based on that \u2018logic,\u2019 then why aren\u2019t you charging significantly less for petite sized women?\u201d<\/p>\n

Plus-sized women, what do you think?<\/strong><\/em> Are you willing to pay $12 to $15 more per pant? Are you ready to join the more than 16,000 people who have signed a Change.org petition<\/a> calling for an end to \u201cdiscriminatory pricing practices?\u201d<\/p>\n

Even if I were to believe what Gap Inc. says about the \u201cwhy\u201d of it all, I suspect that the mark-up is greater than it needs to be and they are doing it just because their market research says that plus-sized women are willing to pay more.\u00a0 So, yes, I confess, I am peeved.\u00a0 It smells like more discrimination against larger women and more corporate greed, to me.\u00a0 My opinion.<\/p>\n

If you have an opinion, Our Lady of Weight Loss<\/a> wants to know!\u00a0 Weigh-in Below!\u00a0 Unless, unless, unless you are going to say something against, something mean, something insensitive to and\/or about larger women.\u00a0 There was a bit of that at the end of the original article (see link below), which I found even more upsetting than corporate greed.<\/p>\n

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Did you hear? Old Navy is selling plus sized women\u2019s clothing at a significant markup. \u201cWhat about men’s clothing,\u201d you ask?\u00a0 No, there\u2019s no mark-up for big men, only for plus-sized women. Gap Inc, its owner, says that the materials used for women are more expensive. I say, \u201cReally, Gap? 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