Should Clothing Chains Charge More to Plus Size Consumers?

Already starting this week, there are shoppers out there that are complaining on social media along with their discovery that a well-known British retailer is deliberately charging higher prices for plus-size clothing items. It’s been found that there are two clothing items that are identical except for the fact that they are different sizes. The smaller one reflects one price and the other one that is plus-sized displays a price that is nearly doubled. Is it fair and legal for this company or any other clothing retailer to do this?

One woman was outraged because they were charging her $25 more for a clothing item just because she says "she’s fat." Could this actually be considered a "fat tax" that the retailers are slowly sneaking into their stores by secretly placing it on the price tags without announcing it?

It has been found and verified after some careful research that this retailer doesn’t have all of the plus-sized clothing that is identical to the smaller pieces as higher prices. So maybe it’s for reasons other than the fact that some of the items are plus-sized. But it doesn’t stop shoppers from wondering why there is any price difference at all with the few items that were recently found.

I don’t know about you but any retailer or food manufacturer is not going to convince me to lose weight just because they decide to raise the prices of their products in order to in their mind fight obesity. If they are doing it because of this said fact, then it will just cause me to go elsewhere that I can find the item less expensive or end up not purchasing the product at all. If I have to avoid a fast-food restaurant or certain sugar-filled drinks to save money, then I will change the way I eat and drink without the government telling me what I can and cannot do.

About two-thirds of adults are overweight and according to recent surveys, the amount of people becoming obese continues to rise. This is resulting in more individuals inheriting chronic diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes and tooth decay with the employers and taxpayers having to pay out more for health care as a whole; this is why many of the health activists and politicians desire to impose a fat tax on society in order to bring in more revenue thus boosting profits in their pocketbooks while slowing down the intake of "not good for you" foods. I wonder what the sugar label food manufacturers think about this one. Maybe that’s the reason why the fat tax isn’t in place yet. What do you think?

The clothing businesses are really going to have to watch what they’re doing because if they try to put a fat tax out or what we call an increase to plus-sized clothing, then they are just going to make consumers find alternative ways to either make clothing handmade or purchase them on Etsy or buy them from a second-hand store like Goodwill or something. Maybe even purchase them from online websites like Ebay, Bidzinger or Amazon.

Again, I think it's horrible that any retailer would choose to increase their prices on clothes that are slightly larger in size than other pieces that are smaller and are identical. Taxpayers are already tax poor and insurance poor. They don’t need to worry about having less money just because their gut is a little larger than what people say it should be.