Posted on 09/04/2018 6:25:18 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
Shares of Nike Inc fell 3 percent on Tuesday as calls for a boycott of the sportswear giant gained traction on social media following its choice of Colin Kaepernick as a face for the 30th anniversary of its "Just Do It" slogan.
Former San Francisco quarterback Kaepernick, the first NFL player to kneel during the national anthem as a protest against racism, posted a black-and-white close-up of himself on Instagram on Monday featuring the Nike logo and "Just do it" slogan, along with the quote: "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything."
Over 30,000 people were tweeting with the hashtag #NikeBoycott on Tuesday morning U.S. eastern time, making it among the top trending topics on Twitter.
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We have 3 kids very active in sports all year long. We buy tons of Nike gear and clothes. No more. We will buy Adidas and Under Armour. No more Nike. None. My kids will be disappointed, but when I tell them why, they will be completely on board.
Just do it. Boycott Nike.
Even if the get rid of Kaepernick right away, this will hurt Nike long term. I know that I will never buy anything Nike again.
This is a huge deal. Athletic wear companies will now be much more careful whom they ask to endorse.
THAT picture needs to be spread far and wide.
This imo is not a move that can be fixed with an apology. They condone Crapnecks behavior and his anti American position. They’re all cut from the same cloth. Buying from Nike would be no different than buying from Islamic terrorists in my opinion.
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Twitter shadow bans Conservative tweets and promotes Communists.
Great pic!
“New Coke” energized Coca Cola sales like nothing else in the history of the beverage industry before or since.
Fans of the brand bought stockpiles of the original formula cases and 2 liter bottles thinking it would disappear forever. The protest and outrage was organic in an age 30 years before social media became well known.
The “New” Coke never completely filled the sales pipeline. What it showed was that millions of people loved the old product but it was so ubiquitous in their lives that they were the silent majority in marketing studies and taste tests. Underrepresented or not representative.
Marketing companies were out there over sampling young people and Pepsi drinkers in the same way Hillary won in a landslide.
You may view the reversal as a colossal failure of “New Coke” but for the Coca Cola company it was a tremendous success and after that Pepsi was put on the back burner and has had to change their logo and advertising more times than we can count.
It cemented Coca Cola as the number 1 player.
Making a bizarre political statement which alienates all of the potential customers who believe that what idiot NFL players are “protesting” is based on a lie... is such a great marketing strategy.
If you wear a swoosh, you are a kneeler
If you are a kneeler, you are Ameritrash.
Oh it isn’t mine, I found it on another site. Please use it.
A person could have done really well buying Coke’s stock at that time. Up about 2500% in 13 years.
Don’t look now, but Levi’s has just made a similar move, joining in with the gun control folks. Insanity!
Excellent!
When I saw their homosexual "Pool Boy" commercial, I just stopped cold.
I don't condemn anyone else who still drinks it, that is their business and not mine. I just couldn't do it.
Absolutely. Like I said, corporate virtue signalling. We’ll see how it goes down for them.
I have purchased my last pair of Nike’s shoes. I usually got my sneakers from Nike’s line of shoes, but never again. To hell with them and their American hating punk Colon-crapper-nick.
Bwahahahaha
Yeah. Nike is a commie Oregon company, with all the other commie slugs out in commie left coast Kaliforniastan, Oreganstan and Washingmachinestan.
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