BOYCOTT NIKE
- Thread starter BILL BELFER
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Major brands? Not really--you do have to do a little digging. I can tell you some recent purchases tho:
Council Tool--just got an awesome hatchet from them
Allen Edmonds--not all, but a lot of MiUSA shoes that will last and probably be cheaper in the long run than Macys shoe that lasts a year or two. Alden too but they are outside of my price range.
LL Bean--most is not MiUSA but their excellent floormats are. Also recently got MiUSA socks from them.
Like I said, you have to do a little research but it is worth it to me. I find my MiUSA is usually better quality than stuff made in Asia.
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Lawnmower I went with Cub cadet whuch manufactures in USA. Chainsaw, weed wacker, lead blower I went with echo which also manufactures in Illinois. I bought a Chevy truck that is made in Missouri, has some foreign components but majority are USA. Clothes dryer also made in USA, brand is escaping me .
thanks. yea i think this is the problem. i think a lot of americans will try to buy MiUSA but theyre not going to go on a covert mission to rip out one or two items.
We are so dependent and intertwined with China manufacturing that it will take a long game to unwind it. Things are moving in that direction though pretty quickly as hospital RFP's are already setting limits on percentage of products are sourced in China. We procure about $30 million of product sourced in China each year and are moving as much as we can to other countries or domestically because it is going that way.
I personally stopped buying Nike stuff a long time ago.
I personally stopped buying Nike stuff a long time ago.
KP, i have been a chevy/GM guy, family cars through decades were GM as well. Sorry to tell you any sensor even oem and not aftermarket that you may ever need made in China. My parents dryer stopped drying about 6 months back. Their coverage on the unit had ended. American made. Looked up what causes this. Saw two components. Both were available non oem on Amazon. Both made in China.
Does Nike need to make $145 profit on a pair of sneakers that they sell for $150? How about they just make 125 to account for the labor cost here?
Did many us companies need to furlough or lay off honest, hard working loyal people amid pandemic? Likely in some cases not really. But profit margins and profit share bonuses for those at the very top.
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If you're taking fortune 500... probably not as they simply moved to a WFH model. Smaller companies absolutely had to for survival. If your business wasn't considered essential or couldn't move to work from home how can you pay someone when the company is closed? Unfortunately I was effected as the company work for lost 1/3 of their business within a week of the shutdowns. Laid off 1/4 of staff shortly after.
Or maybe the market will decide what the price is and clothing retailers won't mark up their products at obscene margins.
Most major companies will not launch a new profit if they cannot make at min 25% off of it. Then the store must make at min 30% off of it, it’s called the cost of doing business.
Day 2 of piratecrew Nike boycott. So far, no difference made. Will check back tomorrow.
Why does a Villanova fan care what is posted on a Seton Hall message board? Oh, that's right, it's because you disagree with it.
Don't you have any more Villanova recruits to tell us about?
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@ceballoj if you dont like it youre free to go somewhere else. nobody is forcing you to be on this site, let alone this thread. in fact im sure most people encourage the opposite.
That’s because you don’t read LOTS. Grab your popcorn and go over, it’s watching the same 6 people in this thread but more vicious.
Because he, like others, pays for this board. Go have your pissing matches on Life Off The Ship.
It’s his board too, he’s a paying subscriber. This thread should never have been started in the trove. A stretch for the free board, appropriate for LOTS, downright stupid to be on here. Nova fan or other, no one wants to see this shit on a pay board except the 6 people who do this all day on LOTS.
I come here for basketball, Seton Hall basketball. Not for thinly veiled political statements. Its not even all that entertaining. There's not real interest in China. This whole thing should have been stopped early.
After reading the posts on my thread i realized that posters made a good point about many Americans will opt for cheaper Chinese manufactured brands. I was specifically talking Nike. Personally i was never a fan. My New Balance shoes get good milage and they are made in USA. They generally don't cost any more than Nike. I get them in Royal Blue too!. But as for products in general, this great country of ours is capable of helping other countries develope manufacturing options. Look at Viet Nam, India, and South /Central America. I am tired of China. Everytime i think of what they have done to us and the rest of the world i get very angry. F China.
why are u coming here in the dead offseason during a covid shut down for shu bball? nothings going on. maybe the most dead in the history of offseasons.
you and others are willingly making the choice to go into this thread. its like the imbecile mask protestors who cry like babies when theyre told to wear masks in a private establishment. ur free to go to another store, or in this case another thread. theres other ones than this without even having to scroll. a daunting task i know
Silly me. I thought I may see recruiting news, who is doing what alumni interviews, etc. Maybe I'll even check out a NY sports scene post. Perhaps a link to NCAA article I missed.
But instead I get pulled down the rabbit hole listening to inane arguments about not supporting Nike because of China. As if a majority of goods that we purchase aren't from China.
And I'm also free to point out the stupidity of bringing this "debate" to a sport forum.
As long as profit motivates our society, there will be exploitation at some point along the supply chain of almost any sufficiently large brand. Slave labor, prison labor, unfair labor deals or inhumane working conditions are the most direct ways for big companies to get more profit out of their product. Voting with your wallet helps to a degree, but so does voting with your vote! Any presidential or senatorial candidate is flush with corporate money, but find local politicians who support local business and won’t sell out their city for Amazon factories and the like
That is accurate and what has brought on ESG investing. Bezo took a little heat in his virtual testimony to congress the other day about Amazon's business practices.
Right on. Until there is more going on it doesn't hurt to digress abit about something that fans might talk about. And speaking of China, i hope we neve send another college team over there to play against them. Remember when Georgetown BB players had a fight with their Chinese opponents? i think that started up over racial slurs directed at the Georgetown players. Not sure.
Pac 12 has had an ongoing China Games opening series in basketball for seasons
Agree. We get what we deserve...keep voting strictly on party line and you have no one to blame but yourself.
I’m no Bezos fan, but Amazon does employ 800k in the US, mostly HS diploma, making better wage and benefits than they had previously.
haha and ucla guys got arrested for stealing (that was on them)
ive basically cancelled asia indefinitely as a travel option, except japan. may never go their again ever.
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