Kvothe wrote:
Is nike discontinuing it, releasing new colors, or updating it? I looked for them online and could only find them at runningwarehouse, and only in a few sizes. Fortunately, they had my size. My dream would be for the original streak xc to be rereleased, but I doubt that happens. The cynic in me believes that when nike can charge 250 for a racing flat, they don't want to bother with $90 racing flats. Btw streak xc's used to retail for 55! The shoe has only gotten worse and gone up in price since then.
1) I would have expected a Zoom X traditional racer (reasonably thin, Streak-like) years ago. Like Reebok's, which arrived years ago.
2) But OK, for whatever reason they didn't do this and kept selling the Streak.
3) But now they might have gotten rid of the Streak? I think that this might be the first time since the freakin' Nike Eagle (the original "modern racing shoe" circa 1980) that Nike doesn't have a traditional thin racer. They thought that there was a market for this for decades (and even when the also had the much beefier Mariah and its successors). And, as noted, other companies still think that there is a market for such a shoe. As noted by others, many runners - particularly young? - aren't going to buy a clown shoe instead of a non-existent Streak. They're going to buy from another company.
And got it, they probably make less on a Streak. But that is and has been true for lots of shoes (and products of all kinds) for.....ever. Simply saying that they make more on a given product doesn't explain everything. Not even close. By that logic, every company would only have a singele, high-priced version of anything.
Hard to figure. It would be interesting to know Nike's thinking on it.