returns and exchanges
Neal Templin at the
Wall Street Journal had a defective running shoe. Within 4 months of buying the shoes, an eyelet failed, so he took the defective shoes back to the store. This is where his tragic tale of rejection begins.
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backlash
There's a bit of a backlash brewing against
Nike after the woman with the fastest time in the Nike Women's Marathon wasn't declared "the winner" because she wasn't among the elite group of marathon runners who start separately from the rest of the pack.
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knock-offs
If you live in the NYC area, one thing you probably won't be spending your stimulus check on now is a pair of shiny new fake Nikes—or ersatz Louis Vuittons, packs of imitation Duracell batteries, or faux-Timberland boots.
Police raided three warehouses in Long Island, Queens, and New Jersey yesterday and seized $25 million worth of counterfeit goods (including 20,000 Nike knock-offs) that they suspect were imported from
China, as well as "printing and other equipment used to make and stamp fake logos on the items."
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fake
Federal agents have announced that they've busted a smuggling ring that brought hundreds of millions of dollars worth of knockoff products into the US, says the
NYT.
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tv
Product placement is annoying. You can't TiVo through it, it's distracting, and you can't get rid of it. Neilsen has compiled a list of the top 10 shows with the most product placement advertising as well as the top 10 offending advertisers. Quite unsurprisingly, FOX's American Idol comes in at the top spot with 4,086 occurrences of product placement. Yuck.
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ipod nano
Here's an ad explaining how the crazy hooking up an iPod nano to your Nike running shoe works. Pretty f'n cool. It seems like your nano will speak to you and tell you how far you've run, how far you have to go, how long you ran, etc. You can then redock your nano and track all your progress on the computer.
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Nike
Air Jordans repurposed by artists Brian Jungen into sculptures, pointed to us by
ObsessiveConsumption. Some of these resemble dinosaur skulls. Some of them are analogues for the route it takes to get a human on telephone customer service.
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ads
We hate ads but we dare you to hate this Nike soccer campaign.
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brands
We know the chances of this actually working are slim-to-none, but as burgeoning sneaker junky, we've got to mention it. Someone has created an
online petition requesting that Nike create the future high-tops worn by Michael J. Fox in
Back to the Future II. They look strangely hip these days, and it's actually possible to affordably recreate the glowing Nike logo from the movie. (The powered lacing might be a little bit more difficult, but it's probably not unpossible, either.)
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ethics
First there was jeans and shirts. Now Nike is reissuing old sneakers "already-vintaged." Will they fall apart in a few months, just like the real thing? [Nice Kicks via Don't Believe The Hypebeast]
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