Posted on 12/04/2016 9:39:55 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Nike Inc. this week begins selling a pricey sneaker with self-tying laces, a high-stakes test of the company’s technology investments and efforts to sell more products directly to consumers.
Since its founding, Nike has predominantly been a wholesaler. But as shopping shifts online, Nike is moving to lessen its reliance on retailers. It wants to double its direct sales to consumers to $16 billion by 2020, particularly as rivals Adidas AG and Under Armour Inc. have become more competitive in recent years.
That is where the self-lacing $720 HyperAdapt sneakers play a role. The company is offering the shoes exclusively on its relaunched Nike+ app and at a new retail store in New York City, beginning on Thursday. The idea is to hook consumers into buying via its app or visiting Nike stores for limited-edition sneaker releases, which to date has been a near-weekly phenomenon at Foot Locker and other retailers.
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NBA players. Oh. Wait. You already said that.
$720? There’s going to be some major sneaker robberies in the ‘hood.
Coming next from Nike: self-running sneakers.
My wife has slip on sneakers, the laces are stretchy I think.
Kids today are becoming so lazy that the guy who invents a plate of food that shovels itself into the kid’s mouth will make a fortune.
In the meantime, kids will lose any and all skills needed to function in the real world.
They will sell like hotcakes as a status symbol and people will be killed over them.
The word adapt is in the name, yet ironically, it is the OPPOSITE of this which users will be doing.
If one cannot tie their own shoes, how can they adapt in other ways?
Get Velcro Strapped shoes
“I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.”
-Steve Martin
Gibson made a similar nonsensical move when they came out with the “Robot Les Paul” which tuned itself.
I have since paid over $150.00 to have a qualified luthier change the tuning pegs, rip the robot guts out of it, and turn it into a REAL Guitar.
Every kid in the hood whose grandmother gets a check for taking care of the kid from the govt. In other words, us.
WE WILL be wasting 720 bucks on these sneakers
I still get mine for 40 or 50 bucks.
Only 10 years ago I got them for 20 :)
[The sneakers] will sell like hotcakes as a status symbol and people will be killed over them.”
Beau and I looked at one another and said that at the exact same moment, when we saw the first ad for these!
The kind of person who'd buy such a thing will be killed... wow... that's kind of a win-win, in the Darwinian sense.
The ones who will needlessly die trying to keep feral youths from stealing them. That’s who.
And like clockwork, when someone is killed over $720 sneakers, it will not be the lack of morality in the black community, nor will it be the sneakers fault, it will be the fault of the “evil” gun.
omg....lol!
The Carbonaro show showcased self tying shoe laces for around $20 dollars-
Also self triggering guns to go with the shoes.
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