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O could be wrong bit aren't agenda and zum iez100k like way too close together. Like one week it's all local and core shops, then the next week it's all, Aspen , industry only bro type shit. Same people at both. One week sucking the shops Dick's, the next , sucking that corporate dick.
Hot take - places like Zumiez help smaller companies hit their minimum order quantities so they can survive.
Sorry I'm dumb. What do you mean? Could you elaborate?
brands like Hardies, Honey, ripndip, only exist(ed) in the state they are in because of Zumiez investment with large orders. They assist with production and will even license out a brand and handle production in-house alongside their house brands.
They may not have the "coolest" brands. I'm sure they tried to carry bronze and FA/HOCKEY. but they have shit like fortune, visual, meow, autonomy and the friendship. Which aren't that big so having a zumiez account really helps the bills.
hardie's, honey, and ripndip, All those brands are trash. Bronze? Trash. Any hardware company thats just industrial bolts and nuts and puts them in a coolbox is trash. Gotta look for the hardware designed to fit in a skateboard, not with the coolest skaters on the team. Anyway,
I see what homie ment with state and shoes overall. But. .y conspiracy is more like, how don't the shops know that the pros and brands are sucking their Dick's one week acting like they care, then going hog wild in Aspen with coprporate checkbooks. Be cool if pros invited the shops to Aspen instead of a convention hall or whatever.