Calling all supporters

Count me in.

Don't you get it sheeple? This marketing campaign is doing the exact thing they wanted it to do, create controversy. The more controversy, the more free advertising they get. This very thread is exactly what they want. The best thing you can do if you don't like it, is to not share it, not mention, not doing anything about it except keep a silent grudge against them and never buy anything again. That is the only way they lose.

As they say: "Any press is good press!"

Yeah, good plan. That'll teach them.

A better approach would be to flood social media with existing articles alleging that Nike is using near-slave labor in sweatshops to make their shoes in oppressive conditions. This would affect their profits more than anything else you could do. SJWs care about this stuff. Search the internet. You'll find lots of stories. For example...

In Cambodia, for instance, 500 workers inside a plant that supplies products to Nike, Puma, Asics, and the VF Corporation were hospitalized after fainting out of exhaustion and hunger as a result of working 10-hour shifts, six days a week, in 98-degree heat.

Our next Klan rally is sponsored by Adidas!

The Clintons will be featured speakers at said rally.

Just couldn't help yourself could you. Already a thread that you could post this on. Hope you enjoy the full commercial tonight while your watching the falcons beat the eagles .

It is pretty amazing how triggered people get over nothing. Thanks for starting yet another thread.

Backlash against Nike wrote:

Better than a boycott:

Everyone should go to their closest Nike Store or Nike Factory Store. Pretend to shop. Load up the cart. Try on several pairs of shoes. Decide to buy 5 or 6 pairs, along with clothing etc.

When you get up to the checkout counter, tell them you changed your mind because of their support of Kaepernick. Then just walk out.

If enough of this happens, word will rapidly reach the idiots up in Beaverton.

Do you seriously think the fat cats at Nike care how many shopping carts a retail clerk has to re-stock? This would make the clerk's life miserable, but the fat cats wouldn't notice a thing. Most likely some middle manager would just make them work harder and not tell their boss at all.

Sh*t rolls down hill.

fisky wrote:

A better approach would be to flood social media with existing articles alleging that Nike is using near-slave labor in sweatshops to make their shoes in oppressive conditions. This would affect their profits more than anything else you could do. SJWs care about this stuff. Search the internet. You'll find lots of stories. For example...

In Cambodia, for instance, 500 workers inside a plant that supplies products to Nike, Puma, Asics, and the VF Corporation were hospitalized after fainting out of exhaustion and hunger as a result of working 10-hour shifts, six days a week, in 98-degree heat.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40444836/escalating-sweatshop-protests-keep-nike-sweating

Sounds like a warehouse/factory job here in Texas.

Ha! How many of these Nike boycotters, so concerned about sweatshops, routinely buy goods from Amazon and Walmart without a second thought?

fisky wrote:

A better approach would be to flood social media with existing articles alleging that Nike is using near-slave labor in sweatshops to make their shoes in oppressive conditions. This would affect their profits more than anything else you could do. SJWs care about this stuff. Search the internet. You'll find lots of stories. For example...

In Cambodia, for instance, 500 workers inside a plant that supplies products to Nike, Puma, Asics, and the VF Corporation were hospitalized after fainting out of exhaustion and hunger as a result of working 10-hour shifts, six days a week, in 98-degree heat.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40444836/escalating-sweatshop-protests-keep-nike-sweating

While that might seem like a "sweat shop" to us in the USA in some countries that would be considered standard. About 20 years ago I was working in a SE Asian country. A friend of mine was an executive with Nike where they produced a lot of clothing and footwear. Nike had a very good reputation in this country as being a desirable employer to work for as a laborer. Nike actually paid a higher wage than most other factories engaged in this same type of production. Nike was paying approximately 10 to 15% above the standard wage that was required by the law. It is true that the factories operated 10 hour shifts six days a week but this was the standard practice in this country regardless of who the employer was. In addition, Nike provided transportation from various meeting points throughout the area to the factory for free. Many other companies did the same but you had to pay for the transportation. Nike also provided free lunch on site at the factory. Most other places had an on site cafeteria but you bought your own lunch. Free uniforms (shirts & pants) were also provided but that was a common practice in the country. The turnover in employees in the Nike company was very low as they were considered employers that people wanted to work for.

Nike doesn't do as much production in this country at present as they have moved to other countries in Asia where production costs are lower. Unfortunately this leaves people in this country unemployed or underemployed. This is why boycotts don't work. The company will just move to another location or country where the costs of doing business are more favorable. The loser in this ends up being the actual people that you were trying to help in the first place.

hank jr wrote:

Backlash against Nike wrote:

Better than a boycott:

Everyone should go to their closest Nike Store or Nike Factory Store. Pretend to shop. Load up the cart. Try on several pairs of shoes. Decide to buy 5 or 6 pairs, along with clothing etc.

When you get up to the checkout counter, tell them you changed your mind because of their support of Kaepernick. Then just walk out.

If enough of this happens, word will rapidly reach the idiots up in Beaverton.

Do you seriously think the fat cats at Nike care how many shopping carts a retail clerk has to re-stock? This would make the clerk's life miserable, but the fat cats wouldn't notice a thing. Most likely some middle manager would just make them work harder and not tell their boss at all.

Sh*t rolls down hill.

Exactly! You're only life terrible for the store employee that works there, not for Phil Knight.

Going out of your way to be a dick to all the 20-somethings who work in these stores isn't going to change anything. It's just going to make you a dick.

Kaepernick is a douche and sweatshops are inhumane. This isn't news. Those "idiots" in Beaverton are thriving thanks to people like you.

I would assume that it's not just Nike but many other companies that are doing the same thing, thousands of people in Asian nations to make running shoes and running apparel for those of us living in first world nations.

Economics would also point out that $10 in the USA and $10 in say, Bangladesh or Indonesia has a very different buying power.