I listened, and I have to say that Tom is taking this a bit too far. The $10hr secuirty officer doesn’t knows what the hell he’s talking about, and should be fired. Tom’s instict, that something like this is NOT allowed, is the correct one. A shirt like that might be allowed at some dirty strip mall, but it would never, ever be allowed within eyeshot of the common areas of a regional mall, owned by a national company like GGP.
I work at a similar company, not GGP. Our security officers have the authority to order the store to remove the item, or at least cover it. If the store doesn’t comply immediately, a call would go out to the Security Manager, at home, and he/she would come in and remove it personally, and impose a fine on the store.
What kills me about this is the ho hum attitude over the slow sexualization of our pre-teen girls. At some point it just has to stop. This is just one indication of a much much larger problem out there. What kind of people would first buy....then market such a thing to our children, all under the knowing nose of a giant mall organization? What kind of sick people are these. I just don’t know anymore...and while I am at it, what kind of parent would allow their kid to own such a thing.
I’ve never seen a mall without a Spencers and the stuff in Spencers has been the same for 25 years.