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Air Jordan 5 Alternate Bel Air Release Report & More Observations
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Feb 20, 2025
I haven't done any release reports for quite some time, so I decided to drop by my local mall today for a little bit of scouting. While picking up a pair of the Jordan 5 Alternate Bel Air /Ghost Green, I used that opportunity to scan a few retailers' shelves and here are my observations. Visit Housakicks.com for more content
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hey what's going on guys this is ty from
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hustonkicks.com
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and i'm here at my local mall to pick up
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the jordan 5 on
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alternate bella people also call it the
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ghost green
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jordan 5. so i picked up the size 9 and
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the main reason why i'm picking up a
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size nine
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is because of my uh authentication uh
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real versus fake
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comparison so i wanted to pick up a size
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nine because the fake one that i usually
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come across are like size nine or nine
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and a half so
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i'm doing that for that purpose but i
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also just wanted to show you
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uh what's in the mall as of late like
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you know what can you expect in your
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local mall and
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in my local mall so i wanted to do a
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quick
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scouting report so let's see how it
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turns out because i don't expect
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much action today because of the kovi 19
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so i'm going to gear up here put my mask
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on
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and i'm going to head on out all right
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first observation
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you can see the ducks making noise out
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here
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you see that that's just ducks this mod
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is dead man look like
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lord and taylor is shut down and
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everything is dead like if you look at
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the parking lot there's no action
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so let me get in there now i'm gonna
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close my car and i'm gonna get up now
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take a quick look at the mall here
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this is dead man look nobody here
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it's just like phantom town
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you know what i'm saying just giving you
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a quick look
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this mall was dead before kovi 19 like
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every star shuts down
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you can see it's like there's no one
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here
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you know what i'm saying i'm gonna go
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this way so i can give you a better look
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at everything let's check our shoe
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department real quick they got some
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pretty nice
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veins up in here some pretty nice shoes
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and they are usually chipped some cracks
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and
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you got like if you're looking for like
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cheap shoes under 45 50 bucks
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it's a good place to come so my first
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stop is going to be downtown locker
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rooms
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i'm gonna pick up my shoes there real
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quick oh no i'm gonna give you a quick
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look at the wall real quick
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this is the nike wall see they have a
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lot of air force one
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a lot of shoes on sale here a lot of
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stuff
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on sale man a lot of
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cigarette phones and wall got his
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memphis tigers
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rookies so you got the up temples
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olympic
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a lot of air force one and sale
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let me show you the wall real quick a
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lot a lot of new stuff man
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man you gonna look at the
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air maxes a lot of sales items here too
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kitties you better look
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y'all get tickets for his high school
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tickets for everything come on
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dang we have a more nike air accident
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and a lot of
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jordans than them in journalism see
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a lot of good stuff you can see there
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these are wanna serve
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119. that's the got these ones the
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bottom letter
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gucci ones p roy
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a lot of ones most other retros are like
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gone man
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see they got these the six wings
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let's take a look at those new balances
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the first lane
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a lot of good new bosses on the feet
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myself
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load of one
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um
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let's look at
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and then the next thing is they got the
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vote on this one they just got to
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yesterday
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so the next thing i'll do is i'm gonna
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go pick up my shoe
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these are the case size they still have
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these in stock
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they got their treatment late so two
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times are still available it's a good
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looking shoe for sure
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i like these
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zoom in to olympic audience cell wolf
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everyone has like a black sea red color
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and this is oriental it was supposed to
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be 1 15.
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all it took was one week so
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still the next location is the finish
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line but i am not going to waste my time
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because
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from the front you can see how just dead
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and really nothing is in here i still
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want to walk in and show you a couple of
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things on the wall
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mostly what they have is a lot of a
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bunch of nmds and
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let's see let's look at the jordan wall
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next stop is gonna be champs just wanna
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show you the water i'm not picking up
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any shoes over there because they did
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raffle so i'm just gonna show you the
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wall and what's on the wall
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and then we're gonna leave after that
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that's it
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i just came in and saw these and i ended
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up picking up the pad for the website
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look at this i don't know what they're
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called
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but man these are some nice shoes though
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this is the wall here
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the jordan well i'm gonna show you real
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quick
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supernova galaxies
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got some nice air force one and denim
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camouflage
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let's go look more
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i forgot these two that's on sale right
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now that's the galaxy
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270s
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97 gold
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human wall
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germany friends i think
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los angeles i think that's korea
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a lot of stuff on sale
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i'm going to show you something about
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zoomies the vines simpsons
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those are pretty tight i really like
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those
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let's actually go in and see if you can
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see some more here actually like these
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two
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it's kind of like you know veins escape
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there's got some cat queues and they
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still got these here
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tight shoes right let's go in and
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explore a little more
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that's the simpsons drains
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oh no i'm just looking this is
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that's pretty much it for now
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oh first thing first i had to sanitize
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my hand once i leave them all
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this was an easy pick up as you can see
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i mean they did the rifle
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on the ticket on monday came to pick it
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up
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and this is the shoe so i'm just gonna
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open this up real quick and show it to
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you
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i look great you know looks good but you
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know i'm not three on the web like
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this is basically for my uh comparison
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it comes with an extra set of laces
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that's gonna be key in the comparison
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i'm gonna have to
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to really look at that this is the
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bottom of the shoe
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the leather uh first really smooth here
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but i think it's some kind of a cheap uh
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leather
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uh this is it what really amazed me more
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was this shoe here i know i wasn't too
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thrilled about the jordan 5 but this one
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here was incredible
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i ended up walking i changed and i
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picked this up
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this jordan jordan one mid um i don't
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know what the name is but
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it has a little bit of white a little
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bit of uh
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this like tan color and the green grass
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green and the suede on top is just
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incredible
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i loved it i mean i liked it i picked it
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up
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so this is going to be on my website
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man this is an incredible shoe wow
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man i really like these
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but uh let's talk about what we take
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away from today
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uh what can i take away from today i
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mean i like how
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the mod is actually operating now no
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hassle you know when i walked into the
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store it took me like five minutes to
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grab my shoe
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there's a lot of shoes still on the wall
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but if you look at the jordan wall
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there's not that many retros uh most of
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the retros on the wall are like the ones
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and that's pretty much it that's
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probably because these stores are like
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selling out online which is great
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for them you know so it's a good time to
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be
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uh in this kind of business if you're a
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retailer
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especially with the new jordans nikes
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bringing out
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i mean those are like going like they're
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just flying off
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e-shops you can't they're not sitting
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which is good
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because if you i went to foot locker
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yesterday they have multiple of the same
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sneakers on the wall which means
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they don't have that much inventory now
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i don't know if this is because
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everything is selling online or this is
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a bad sign i don't know because nike is
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also pushing a lot of shoes
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so i'm not sure who's really benefiting
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from this
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but i can tell you right now uh there's
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a lot of sales on in the mall still like
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that's still
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like nike is still pumping out like
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crappy shoes and you can see that they
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are sitting on the wall so
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uh for for to uh on one hand
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retros are selling but on the other hand
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there's still like a crapload of like
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bad sneakers that are sitting on the
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wall for for like retailers so
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they're still not in a great place
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honestly especially now that no no one
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is even coming
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so i don't know how they can get rid of
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it besides putting them online and
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trying to get rid of them
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through maybe the third-party
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marketplaces i'm sure a lot of retailers
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are now selling
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stuff on stackx we just don't know
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because we can't track and
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trace or track these um on transactions
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but again like for for stuff like the
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jordan 5 bellaire
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and stuff that's like limited it's still
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going to be the same way you're gonna
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have to go through the raffle system on
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ticketing
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but the ticketing is easy you just walk
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in and grab your ticket it's not as hard
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as it used to be
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but as far as like uh uh buying shoes
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now
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it's a lot easier to just walk in the
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mall and get it because no one really
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want to get out because of the
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kobe 19 of course but again i i still
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feel like
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retailers are in a good place as long as
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they are really capitalizing on
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and using online their online presence
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to push their product
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because uh i i feel like a lot of these
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retailers they still don't understand
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how to to get a hold of these buyers
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like if you go on foot locker's website
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if you go on dtlr's website if you go on
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this other website they don't they don't
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even know how to properly put the name
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of the sneakers that they have like
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i go on foot locker you can't even find
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some shoes when you type in the name the
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nickname they they have to make some
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modifications
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because when people are searching for
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stuff online they put those nicknames
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and and those are things that these
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retailers have to put into
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into place but they don't get it now if
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you go on
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goat or stockx they understand that
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aspect of the market and they really
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put it in such a way that it's so easy
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to find so this is why
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stuff are selling on ebay quicker than
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they are selling on stores because
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those same shoes sometimes are in stores
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for cheaper but because of
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the lack of um proper um um
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name and and all these other things that
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i mentioned retailers are struggling
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anyway the takeaway here is like
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it's not as hard to get shoes these days
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uh
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especially in stores online is still
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selling out quick but if if you really
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know your model and you know how to talk
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to these managers
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you can go there and be able to grab
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what you want all right again thanks for
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watching this is ty from asset kicks
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and stay tuned for the authentication of
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the jordan 5 alternate valet
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thank you
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