Haha! The town of Hollister in central CA (I've driven through it) has nothing to do with the store. The FICTIONAL story behind the store (published in the employee handbook) is that it's based off the sailor John Hollister who had made the store in ...
your shirt is probably old. i have a few older things from the store (like 4 years old or something) that say the same thing. some other old tags say "pacific merchants" or something like that under where it says hollister. and i do remember getting ...
You can get fake ones made in different countries off of ebay, but the quality is horrible.