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Picking Up The Air Jordan 12 Gym Red & Sneaker Stores Scouting & Final Observations
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Feb 20, 2025
We need your support https://bit.ly/2Kx3F58 I got up a bit early this morning and was heading over my local mall to pick up a pair of the Gym red Jordan 12's that was purchased by a customer on my website. I decided to kill a few birds with one stone and did a bit of retail scouting; my objective was to see what sneakers were still perishing on retailers's shelves and then make some inference on the findings My video editing skills are sub par so forgive me for the way the video was chopped up
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hey good morning guys man as you can see
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it's like really cold out here hate this
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weather man I can't stand it I'm from
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Africa and I've been here like 18 uh 18
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years and I'm still not used to the cold
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I don't like the cold I hate the snow I
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can't stand it I hate it but anyway um
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I'm getting up and I got up a little
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early going up to pick up the the red
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12s I guess they were called the the the
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Jordan 12 Houston Rockets I thought they
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were the Bulls but you know when I went
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on chams website it showed that it was
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called uh the Rockets 12 so I'm going to
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pick them up this morning and I wrote a
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a post about it which I'll share with
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you at the end or actually I I I don't
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know I'll just maybe I'll just do it
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like separately but uh when I did my my
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numbers I don't know what number I came
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up with but there's going to be a lot of
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them made but it's going to fly of shelf
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like not today but eventually like in
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the next couple of weeks you probably
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won't be able to find
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like like size is like 12 13 or 14 or
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whatever you know like those sizes cuz
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they Sho going to do well you know what
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I'm saying like retailers should be able
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to sell those and they should be able to
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make some money on it but as far as
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resale is concerned don't try to flip
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these uh they don't have a resale value
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so I would recommend buying those for
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the sake of flipping all right but uh
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what I really wanted to do this morning
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is is as I pick up the shoe I want to
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show you what is still left in stores
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like the kind of shoes that I seen I
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would see like in places like Foot
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Locker or downtown locker room or guess
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Finish Line I'm only going to one
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location I don't feel like driving all
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over the places it's too cold so I'll
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show you what I see on the wall now when
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I do that I won't be talking cuz I don't
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want to be disrespectful to the store
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owners you know I just want to show you
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and then at the end I'll wrap it up all
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right so B with
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me I my
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way 399
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somebody
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right go through Jordan section this is
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Foot Locker right
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away R pick up my right away got my in
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the B here
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we going the basketball
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section yeah I saw him me the Jordan
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Future right yeah
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man I realiz
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crazy
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man like the kyri those off to see what
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it look like that look good it look
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good might have to try P I think they're
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130 all
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right more
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stuff Paul George 59 I don't know how
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long the say's going to be
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here right here for
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59 to Bally shoe have a Nike
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account you see what's going on a lot of
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these shoes are like $120 and they go
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down to like 59 starts come moving oh
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wow look at this
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7979 that's the a Max
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270 they were
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150 wow let see on the side
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here 49 for this Air Force One and these
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were $100 on retail
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begin
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with this was foot lock so the next
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thing I stop going be Champs all
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right
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799 this the
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Retro got the
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multicolor mro
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boost wall
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I
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mean try to see be off people in the
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store I don't feel
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like show you what kind of n they got
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here I just want to show you some of the
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they
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got good how you
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doing
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all makank
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oh 35 on sale already wow that's
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crazy 35 on sale too
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wow good how you
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doing now I'm just recording Ching my
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friend real quick see what they got
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Stu just came
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out guys it's a little bit funny when
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I'm
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here but you can see what's going on
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looking at GT they don't do
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RTV York was
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crazy that TR was crazy yor never again
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New York was crazy you I would never
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York again good country man with the
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table that is nothing cool about that
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whatsoever but um I don't know man but I
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do want to go to a complex kind just to
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see what it's like in person you see all
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the pictures you know you hear stories
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but I didn't feel like honestly like
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this year like last year I kind of like
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man I really want to go this year I
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like you doing I didn't feel like I had
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to be
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there just showing you
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how for retail that's trying to C this
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kind of merchandise I don't see this
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I I think I think it's worse because
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it's like I don't I didn't expect a
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comment like
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that thej was sneaker of the year that's
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itas right so I said I was going to wrap
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it up and let's do that now on the first
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observation pickup was super easy I went
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in I actually had like four options and
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all four stares were kind of like oh man
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you should have bought it for me you
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should have bought it for me but I say
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this I went to Foot Locker and I bought
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the shoes was able to use my discount
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but didn't have a bag to put the shoes
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in so I had to use like a small little
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bag it looked funny now that's
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unprofessional that's one thing that F
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like I needs to do better I mean if you
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going to have a shoes that's that wide
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like the Sho is really wide the box is
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wide get me a better box now on foot
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wall you saw that there was a lot of um
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Nike shoes on sale most at 7959 Adidas
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shoes went down to like 39 39 49 some
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mmds are 79 and fot loer sales are like
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relatively the same for the most part
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they don't really have like stuff that
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make you go whoa but one thing I would
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say is this when you look on the war all
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the general releases like the
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Retros and uh every retro and all the
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Nike basketball shoes are sitting on the
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wall like even like recent stuff is
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still sitting there so again this is the
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time to be uh if you're a collector this
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is the best time to be a collector
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because you don't have to rush into them
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all and buy the shoes you can wait till
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you get a you know like they go discount
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and then go and get it and then you can
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use your coupons or whatever now when I
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went to Champs same thing same scenario
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I've seen the speed turs there for like
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79
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nmds like the better model like the
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Champs Edition on sale that now that is
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a little bit of it like whoa these will
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never go on sale like a couple years ago
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you know what I'm saying and they even
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had their Adidas on the Falcon I think
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that's the one right the Falcons those
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are on sale already to $79 now that's
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crazy those shoes just came out so the
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speed at which he going on sale is kind
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of like alarming then I went to like
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finish line finish line they had a bunch
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of stuff there 25% off on Adidas Ultra
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boost you know a bunch of like the the
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uh Whatchamacallit the what's that shoe
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again that just came out the DC they was
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on sell 25% off a bunch of stuff Nike
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Jordan shoes 25% off but my whole thing
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is this I wanted to really go to DT a
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lot that's what I wanted to see this the
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status like if you're minor retailer if
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you're smaller chain this is what you
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need to pay attention to like when I
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went there you saw the prices and your
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eyes probably went what they got the jdi
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Air Max on sale they got a bunch of Air
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Force One jdi on sale they got a bunch
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of the Jordan Retros on sale and the
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chlorophyll 3 $139.99 that shot just
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came out two weeks ago that shoe was
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down to like 140 and that's a retail the
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the retail price was like 190 they went
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down to 140 so if you're a smaller chain
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you can do the RTV that's what Chris and
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I have been talking about RTV return to
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vendor now for locker chams and finish
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line they can get away with just putting
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those prices down to like maybe
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$79.99 unlike stuff that's like $100 and
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they can get away with just leaving the
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price at 79 cuz they know look we can
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send it back if you don't move it Nike
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is going to get it and give us a credit
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and we're going to send it to the outlet
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but if you're a DTLR you don't have the
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RTV uh luxury so that mean you have to
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mark down your prices that's the reason
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why you see all those shoes on sale
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because they can't there's nothing else
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they could do they got to keep it
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they've paid for it they got to move it
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they need shelf space so if you're a
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buyer this is probably your best option
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to to Target those smaller retailers
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because they don't have the same options
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and they can't get away with just like
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sending the stuff back to Nike so that's
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why their prices always go down and they
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go way down like I didn't even see any
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ad on on on DTLR wall are they been
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overshadowed I don't know I barely saw
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anything in there they didn't have any
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nmds they had the the power pH not the
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power pH what do you call it those they
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looked at the rebok workout I forgot the
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name of them they had those and they
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were on sale too they had a bunch of
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stuff there you see what I mean so like
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I said like to wrap it up this a good
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time to be a collector or a shoe
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collector or one that L sneakers cuz you
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don't have to go out and get it you got
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to wait if I'm new I'm going to wait I'm
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not even going to rush it I'm going wait
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till the shoes go down to like half the
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price they they were supposed to be you
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know what I mean and then get it cuz
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ain't nobody rushing out there to get
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the shoes I went to the stores there was
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no line and I went to DTLR and the girl
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told me she only sold one pair those R
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12 now the shoes going to sell
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eventually but they're going to sell
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like relatively slowly that's all I got
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to say this morning now retail is in
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deep deep deep deep deep trouble and
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that's what we've been talking about and
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Nike has to take a little bit of a blame
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for it because they over over um satura
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the market you know so that's a brand
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for you anyway now uh I wanted to say uh
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right after show you what they have
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displaying the front obviously this is
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still here I'm not going to ask them how
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manys they have left but U look at this
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this feelers I was doing a whole do
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really good on them when they first came
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out I think they died out a little
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bit see what's on the wall
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here
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that I really want to focus on the
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Jordans going on man what's up I'm good
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how you
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doing eight ultimate
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six all this still sit here for
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over
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here
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79 just came out
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