I thought hoax the first time I saw this, but the pictures on this website are pretty convincing. Is Walmart so powerful that they can quash such items from hitting the mainstream press? This has been bouncing around a few of my favorite blogs lately and I just couldn't pass up an opportunity to post another piece of pedal (of the foot, not bicycle) carnage.
I am a bit offended here. I'm having a hard time with Simple's tag line: "a nice little shoe company (tm)". I always thought that I had a nice little shoe company here. One that has a personal relationship with each and every customer that comes through our door. I just don't think you can have an investor relations tab on your website and still be considered "little". Keep in mind here folks that Simple is just a brand within the Deckers Coproration not a separate company, and anyone doing over $300 million in gross sales is not little. In comparison to my measly no where near a million in sales a year figure that certainly makes me the "littler" of nice shoe companies. So really my gripe here isn't about Simple's shoes, they have some really hip "greenish" stuff and a great website, love the Kid's Loaf by the way. It's just about folks trying to portray themselves as something they are not. It's OK to be big, this isn't a futile hatred of all things corporate, I just don't like it when big corporations try to convince us that they are the "little" guys.
Yikes, when I first saw these I thought it was a joke. That obviously speaks to my optimistic nature...
Look out folks! Just when you thought the country was "blue"ing up a bit. Here comes the biggest news from downtown Niwot, Colorado since the acquisition of Jibbitz: CROCS, Inc. is teaming up with NASCAR to bring you nothing but the finest CRAP to add to your already atrocious shoes. Oooh, can I get the Dale Jr. clogs ma... please?
You can find REAL car racing HERE.
Birkenstock USA is having a rough couple of years. Sales are down, transfer to employee ownership has not gone well, making a move from beautiful Novato, CA to Kentucky, the Deutchmark and Euro are kicking their ass, they are offering half the shoes they did 2 years ago (actually a good thing) and who knows what else. So what do you do when the chips are down? Raise prices and ad a $15 fee to any order under 12 pairs. That is exactly how you thank your base of specialty retailers that brought you from an obscure German novelty to a household name in comfort, thanks! I blame it all on Heidi Klum (yes, those ARE Birkenstocks, from the German Boutique collection), yet I'll probably still wear mine everyday.
At least they hide the springs, and well, they ARE endorsed by Bubba the Love Sponge.
Get you pair HERE.
