So some bum tried to pull a fast one on us recently. I guess he work(ed) for the company that mails our catalogs, stole an '08 footwear catalog, and then tried to sell it to the schmucks battling it out for the #2 spot behind us.
Here is the story.
I love this story for the simple fact that we are gonna pound this guy into the pavement! Who thinks they can pull this shit on us and get away with it? We are friggin Nike for god sake! Didn't anyone see what we did to Rob Drake and the City of Beaverton? What else do I have to do to get some friggin respect around here?
The writing in the paper rubs me the wrong way though (big surprise, huh). Some liberal hippie at the Oregonian actually implies that the leak of this catalog could destroy us. I mean really, are you serious?
These catalogs are distributed to the thousands of customers we have all across this country, about 9 months before the product ships. Every pimply faced kid in town knows what we are making next year. For christ sake, the kid that brings me my warm cookies every day at lunch is wearing the 2009 Jordan's!
And even if the designs were a secret, do you think somebody like Saucony would be able to cripple us just because they know what our stuff looks like? Half of our shit looks like crap, yet we just marched past $16 billion. Trust me, looks don't matter (hell, look at my suits).
I hope this schmuck goes to jail. Props to Mark and the Nike security team for calling the FBI on a homeless guy. That gives a whole new definition to "Just Do It."
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