Posted on 06/30/2024 5:19:45 PM PDT by lasereye
Their target market has realized that shoplifting makes a lot more sense than actually paying for the product.
What makes them believe their customer base even know who “Jordan” is?
Can’t collect the loot if they’re pinched.
Nike plots $100-and-less sneakers to lure price-conscious shoppers
That is too bad...:)....:)
I stopped buying any Nike stuff (not that I had a lot of their gear) after they hired Michael Vick after his dog fighting conviction. They have been dead to me since. The other footwear companies may be just as bad. To be honest I don’t know but I now tend to buy as best I can non logo items as much as possible.
What is a “lifestyle sneaker?”
Woke = Broke
I am absolutely proud to be able to boast that I have not once in my lifetime owned or worn anything made by Nike.
Haven’t purchased a Nike product since 1993. Their quality does not impress me.
Great!
I am absolutely proud to be able to boast that I have not once in my lifetime owned or worn anything made by Nike.
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Same here.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nike-responds-to-backlash-over-dylan-mulvaney-partnership-instructs-customers-to-be-kind-be-inclusive
Nike also pushed to have 50% of their staff be "diversity" hires by 2025. They've had four "Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officers" (Chief - Didn't Earn It - Officer) since 2020. It's as though fake reparations for non-white people will compensate for use of actual Uighur slaves.
While a lot of this is karma and "going broke, get woke, go more broke", a lot of it is that they simply don't have a basketball player who can pimp out enough sneakers. Trying to have model Gigi Hadid and actor Bradley Cooper shill for them just doesn't translate into sales.
True story: I'd never owned nikes prior. The only shoes which would fit me - WIDE feet - at basic training were nikes. After I returned home - with a mere number of miles on them from PT - they went on the shelf. Years later, after a move, I grabbed the still 'nearly like new' running shoes and the soles were literally falling off.
For years i bought the same style nikes.
Finally 2 years ago I switched to a similar style Reebok.
What a difference in comfort and durability.
I’m never going back.
I bought a pair of Nike running shoes back around 1980. The toe box didn’t fit my feet at all, and after I lost a couple of toenails I threw the shoes out. No idea what sort of mileage they would have been good for if I’d kept them.
Worst running shoes I ever had except for a pair of Brooks. Those about crippled me.
It was new balance 990s for me for PT. The uppers held well til I had to replace them when the soles wore out. They are will made and you will pay a lot for them but nearly bomb proof.
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