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Sneaker Scouting At Footlocker, Nike outlet & Finishline, What I found & Observations
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Feb 19, 2025
I just took my phone with no real plans in mind. I just wanted to do some old fashion scouting and dropped by three locations. Here are my observations
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hey what's going on guys uh this is
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tiger has a kicks and uh 24 hours ago i
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went to my uh
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local foot locker then went to uh nike
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and the outlet and then went to finish
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line to check some stuff out so my goal
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was just to go out grab my phone and see
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what was in the mall and just report it
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to you guys and make some more
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observations so
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just watch with me all right okay let's
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go you see the first location was foot
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locker and this is the front side he
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always has a nike shoe in the glass case
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but the first
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wall has a bunch of adidas that's
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because nike
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changed how much they give to foot
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lockers so i guess they chose to put
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adidas first now as you can see on the
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wall there's a bunch of enemy nmds and
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different types of like adidas sneakers
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some top tens and some forum and some
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superstars and different types of adidas
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and a bunch of them are on sales they
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are obviously not moving as much as they
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should and there's just too many shoes
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and it's a lot to choose from and some
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of the colorways are straight up just
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trash
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you know they're trying to repeat the og
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mmds on that one the colorway but it
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still doesn't bite so this is the adidas
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wall as you can see now if you want any
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of these just let me know and i can grab
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it for you guys
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and then the next thing is a new balance
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as you can see the 550 is now sitting
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this is the panda one and it's the white
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and gray on 550. again good color the
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three and they also have like different
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um 574s i actually like some of the 574s
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that they came out with this is the
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wheat pack and the olive color the 574s
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are classic man those are some nice
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shoes and they have some dope colorways
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out there and they cost about 79 again
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the 990s and some of the 327. those
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they've overdone it and now he's sitting
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obviously he's on sale 99 990 is like
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trending now so you can see that it's
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been showcased again a bunch of 574s
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and then
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some of the uh kawaii basketball
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sneakers those are trash they're not
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doing anything at all
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and then the next thing we're going to
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look at again i just wanted to zoom in
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on zeroing on some of the
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574 as you can see that one was actually
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pretty cool the pink one suede upper
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this one is pretty rich if you feel if
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you feel it i mean it's just incredible
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and then the next thing was puma pumas
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your small section in the store not that
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much stuff
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but i do like these uh these pumas that
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i'm showing you now i forgot the name of
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it they're called a inspiration
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something like that
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and uh
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the puma world wasn't too impressive you
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know um you know it's just
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same thing and then the veins is next
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now veins are some dope shoes man a lot
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of good colorways the vents get high
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and then the vents authentic
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and then a bunch of the different uh
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construction varieties the bolt uh and
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then these are more like a winter shoes
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with
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padding a lot of padding again more
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veins on the wall
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i like some of the colors i'll actually
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like this one with the snakes and
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pattern on their midsole
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veins we're doing some dope stuff you
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know the variety is there just people
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just have to go out now the yacht club
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is still sitting
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that was actually popping a few
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years ago but now it's kind of just dead
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and some more veins um
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on the wall as you can see now the
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events again was trending when that
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movie the the the korean series came out
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i don't know the squid game
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i guess a lot of uh stalking keep them
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on shelves again this is the van waal
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bunch of veins in the store
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and then next thing is the nike now you
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have a bunch of running shoes i bought a
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bunch of air maxes the nike sock dot and
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air force one
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and uh some utility air force ones
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there
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a lot of them there's just a bunch of
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stuff man nike free runs
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a lot on sale like righteous now those
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are up temples with a swoosh look on the
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side
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and uh you're gonna see up as i go some
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more air force one is still showcased
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that's the air force one mid
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and then some air force one low top
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and a bunch of the
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six rings new colorways came i actually
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like this one reminds me of the
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uh the black cat
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13s uh the higa game i mean and as the
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lucas shoes some air force one next
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nature those have been kind of sitting
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because i guess people don't like the
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the sustainability uh sneakers those are
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sitting alive a bunch of lebrons on sale
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the lebron shoes just not doing the
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calories on sale at 99
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a lot on sale as you can see nike still
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dominates a lot there's a lot more nikes
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in there and all the zoom freak shoes on
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sale of righteous on sale
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bunch of ratchets
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and then you're gonna see that i also
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have some air max um uh 97 now the air
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flight
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and then those are boy jackson's the
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originals they're still sitting in some
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places and then some griffies the usa
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and the aqua color
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then you have some max 90 that's being
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showcased there again dance nice shoe
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you know it's just a little too steep
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and then nike free range on sale a bunch
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of them on sale you can see those
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uh the free run on sale for like 39.49
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now so if you want those those are you
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usually 110 so 39.99 great shoe you know
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very easy to wear
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so if you want those again nike still
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dominates most of the wall as you can
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see just crazy and then you have some
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diadoras a bunch of good
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great diadoras for 19 dollars i mean
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these are great shoes man
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great quality thermal leather
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great quality for for the lord like 1929
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this is where i go when i want to guys
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chris from stickers man the n92 is for
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like 29 dollars
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and they also have the rocky the adults
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the dragon joint for like 49. look at
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that i mean it's incredible man
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crazy good shoes now they those are new
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colorways i just dropped then the n92
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if you want those again like i said just
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hit me up and i'll see if i can grab
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your size for you and then the next
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thing was from reebok wall people got
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some a bunch of questions and some
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regular reeboks and some fillers as well
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and more
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um
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case suites and a bunch of slides on
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sale for 9.99 and they have the audio
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slides those were like 45 dollars now
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they are like 9.99 man those were nice
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bunch of slides check your local foot
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locker you might get those
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look at that i mean
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this was like 45 hours now i came down
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to like
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nine and then the next thing that i was
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looking at was the cracks again you have
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some of those uh
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again brands just overdo everything like
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they have so many of the cracks now that
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they are dying like to the point where
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they're not 19.99 i won't be surprised
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if those same crocs are like 9.99 in a
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couple of weeks
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the brains just flood the market and
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eventually kill the mass appeal of the
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shield and it's just crazy just too much
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to choose from you know how many crusts
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can you wear i mean i have the same
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class that i've had since i was like
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since like seven eight nine years ago
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then this is the nike outlet it got
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again a bunch of basketball sneakers
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on sale on the nike out i just swung by
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i just wanted to just quickly
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capture some stuff i don't really like
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using my phone in the stores because
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it's just weird so i was like you can
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see us i was scheming through it
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but you'll see some surprises in a
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minute
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you're getting lebrons on on sale and a
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bunch of retros like the heritage ones
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the the black nines and those are
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lotto 5 and the player of 12
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where at my nike
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uh outlet still sitting there you just
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got to ask the guy and they go in the
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back there and pick it up for you and
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then the next thing that i do was i went
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to a finish line and checked the wall
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see they have the nines on sale they
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have the low top 11 there 7210 some more
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ones they don't adidas top 10 it's a
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bunch of stuff just sitting there
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collecting
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some great dust which is good if you're
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a sneaker head because at least you'll
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be able to get the shoes for
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less than uh
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retail or a little more or it'll
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actually less and then i went to again
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finish now i was looking at the wall
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there just looking at some some of the
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11's and that was pretty much it man as
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you can see
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it seems as if the the supply
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exceeds the demand there's so many shoes
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to choose from and every week and every
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day
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brands like nike drop like five to like
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10 15 pairs a day so i don't even know
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how people are able to buy
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that many shoes and in the third world
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nike wouldn't survive because you know
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people don't have that kind of buying
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power but here it shows you how much
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people are i mean this country has been
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blessed i mean people have money and
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because
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based on some report from managers they
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are selling more shoes than they they've
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ever sold before and people usually
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don't go out there to buy like sneaker
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head sneakers they buy regular shoes
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like you got a bunch of different
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demographics without looking for
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sneakers for their kids and stuff like
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that so they go into the mall and they
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just buy buy and buy because people have
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the expendable money they have the money
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to spend so as many as much as i want to
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say
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that there's too many shoes i don't
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think the market is affected that much
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resale may be affected
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you know that's because now nikes has
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increased on their retail on most of the
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release um like height sneakers and
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resellers are not making as much money
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but as far as like the business itself
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for free uh the retail i mean i think
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they're thriving still
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you know but based on some conversations
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i mean actually when i went to my local
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mall people were like i went to the nike
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there's a bunch of people buying these
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shoes go to footlocker there's always
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different people buying buying and
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buying so people have the money to buy
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so if they didn't have it nike wouldn't
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continue to make those shoes and brands
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will continue to put them out there
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and
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one thing that we forget is this like
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when stuff goes to the outlet nike is
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still making a killing on those
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because you gotta think about it they're
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not gonna lose money on their sneakers i
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don't know how much they
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it cost them to make their shoes but no
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matter what when when when stars can't
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sell them they send them to the outlet
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they still make actually more profit
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because now they're dealing straight
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with the consumer and so they're not
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selling them wholesale they're doing
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they're doing individual sales and
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they're doing they're making a lot more
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money so what's the takeaway nike is
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still dominating even though uh
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footlocker is not getting as much nike
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shoes as they they used to nike is still
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dominate most of the walls like two
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third i would say one two third nike
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stuff in the store if you look at the
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kids walls it's all nike sneakers so
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that's the only observations and by the
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way if you want any of the sneakers that
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i've seen just text me and tell me
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exactly what you want and i'll check it
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out for you for a little fee i can go
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out there and grab it for you guys again
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sneaker game is it dead as fast resale
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as far as hyped
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somewhat because you can't make any
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money there's no margins but as far as
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like
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people buying sneakers and people buying
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shoes people are still buying because
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you have to remember
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when brand makes these shoes they are
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not looking at sneaker heads you make
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maybe one or two percent of the entire
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consuming population so you we are
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irrelevant i mean we i'm not really a
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sneaker head
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i love snickers but i don't think i go
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crazy for them like that
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so
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we are insignificant
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all right so the brands really makes
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issues for the average person so
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we quit saying that this naked game is
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dead or stuff like this that's just not
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uh a good thing to say that's all i
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wanted to say so have a wonderful day
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and i'll see you next time
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