Why Nike is Facing Its Worst Performance in Years

Nike shoes are way too expensive given their middling to poor quality. The way Nikes are made, they should cost 40% less. Add in the bad vibes from their sweat shop abuse, and Nikes should cost 60%. Never again, Nike.

For a sports shoe you need consistency and Nike doesn't have that. You buy a shoe and you like, then you go back for replacements and either the shoe isn't made anymore or you buy the same shoe and the quality is completely trashed.

Re-releasing 90s designs and cutting down on toe space sure is innovative...

Same thing we are seeing in many companies like Boeing. Replacing CEOS that had backgrounds in the developing the product they sell, with just business/managment/sales focused people that only want to make money and don't give a shit about the product.

I've pretty much abandoned Nikes for running shoes. They wear down so incredibly fast. It's a fashion brand pretending to be a sports shoe. They're just badly made fast fashion.

Brand - $200 Shoe - $50

They shifted to maximizing shareholder value instead of making shoes

We need a bingo card: private equity, DTC, decreasing quality, new CEO, going public, etc.

Lower quality, exploit workers, "techify" inventory & sales, keep prices in lockstep with inflation. They left the door open for newcomers to come and take the throne.

my problem with nike is that they went for a more narrower shoe model ... and they are not comfortable anymore ...

Shoes are the last thing I want to buy online. I've done it before and its always a mistake.

Prices are too high for what you get. The quality is just not there. On top of that Nike alienate anyone like me who has slightly wide feet. I can wear literally any other brand comfortably except Nike and Puma. Their toeboxes are way too narrow.

The shoes are cheap crap at this point. I don’t want to buy them because they are cheap crap.

Nike is not releasing good designs anymore and existing shoes are uselessly getting expensive...adidas and NB are more value for money...

Lots of folks will always want to buy shoes in person to find out if they really fit or not. That cannot be done online.

I used to live this brand, I work on my feet all day, everyday. When I go to the store to replace my favorite shoes they are discontinued... but they want to sell me $150 weird things with nonsense color junk & made up "features". I've changed brands

it must be exhausting going from trend to trend as a fast fashion manufacturer

Saying Nike replaced the partnership with Tiger with the recent Caitlin Clark signing was wild

In New Zealand, Nike have shut down our online purchases - about a year ago. Had bought heaps of shoes (as a runner) from Nike up to then, and zero since (in my last 9 shoe purchases since). Abandoned, but was a blessing in disguise with being forced to try other brands. Big time into Asics at the moment.

Asics has a running shoe line up that wipes the floor with Nike's line up imho. And Asics are more comfortable and durable too. Whats more Asics has been just as innovative in the last 2-3 years as Nike and with the MetaSpeed Sky Paris has absolutely matched Nike in the supershoe race. All while being a significantly smaller company. Fun fact: Nike started out as an importer of Asics (then known as Onitsuka Tiger) shoes to the US. Phil Knight got a lot of the ideas for starting Nike upon visiting Asics in Japan and getting a tour of their company and meeting the founder of Asics Mr. Onitsuka. Its very possible that without Asics there would have been no Nike.