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I’m not too up on skate politics but am I tripping or did they pull their account from a ton of shops a few months ago which most likely can, did, or will put them out of business?
Not to mention a direct to consumer web store, making some of their shoes nearly impossible to get, putting many shops out of business by loading them with shoes that don’t sell just to get a few pairs of the ones that do which leads to them unable to pay. Again someone else could probably put up a better argument than me but this seems like the most laughable hypocritical thing I’ve seen in a while.
Fake news that gets recycled every 2 years.
If your shop goes out of business due to the lack access for more popular Nike SB shoes, there's a good chance your shop sucked to begin with.
I have not seen a shop 'close' due to Nike SB, but uh yeah, keep fighting the good fight.
I don’t have a local shop that isn’t lame so I don’t know. I don’t even care that much I was just surprised someone didn’t already start the topic.
I’m speculating off shit I’ve read/the way it seems like it naturally would go. The way I see it is that the younger generation likes Nike, that isn’t going away, but if Nike pulls the account from a local shop those kids can’t get what they want there anymore so they stop shopping there. This is out of the shops hands. The kids then buy them online or wherever else and that shop just lost a customer. If this happens enough times over that shop loses a lot of customers and without those customers that shop is not a shop. Is that that crazy to understand? Do you work for Nike? Do you care that much?
I know a shop that closed 100% due to owing Nike too much money from them sending a bunch of bs they were required to carry in order to get the “cool” shoes and this was like 15 years ago. It’s not like it doesn’t/hasn’t happened. Do you live in a skateboarding hot spot? Cause you may just not see it in a place where it’s thriving