You know, after doing my research on Anthro, I suspect they have Gruen transfer down to an art form...such that it doesn't make you frustrated or sick, but actually makes you MORE comfortable...dangerously comfortable!
The layout is arranged so that the customer can shop "freeform" rather than following a pre-planned path, and it must work because customers linger at Anthropologie stores much longer than most. I wonder if that is part of the reason I want to work there? It seems so much warmer to me than most stores.
There is one store that has the most god awful lighting. I can't remember what it is now. I just remember it made me feel ill, and everyone LOOKED ill because the lighting was so bad.
Agree on all of those juniors stores. I am proud to say that I have never entered an Abercrombie store in my life. Nothing about it appealed to me as a teen and nothing about it appeals to me today. Forever 21 is frustrating but worth it sometimes. Going back to Macy's, the juniors floor of the flagship is the WORST. I need sunglasses and earplugs to make it out alive.
