HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Footaction / Footaction Foot Locker reportedly had a great Q1 when it comes to earnings. However, that means the athletic sneakers and apparel retailer will be closing its Footaction stores. Yahoo! News reports that Foot Locker blasted by earnings estimates and posted revenues of $2.15 billion, which clocks in at an 82% year-over-year increase. “Last quarter, I talked about entering our fiscal 2021 with momentum, and that was certainly the case in our first quarter. The momentum gained strength as the quarter progressed, enabling us to deliver exceptional top-line and bottom-line results, even against the ongoing challenges of store closures in Europe and Canada and congestion at the U.S. ports leading to abnormally lean inventory levels,” said Foot Locke...
Source: Foot Locker / Foot Locker You can’t have sneaker culture without Black people, period. In the midst of Black History Month, Foot Locker is celebrating this triple truth with its inaugural Sole List which honors the next generation of Black influencers pushing the culture of kicks forward. The Sole List highlight individuals who are naturally putting others on, launching dope collaborations and bigging up their respective communities. The initial Sole List Class of ’21 is made up 10 Black creatives that include Greg Skye Evans, a child influencer, Ari Chambers, founder of Highlight Her, female sports recruitment network and Dex Robinson, a celebrity stylist and brand manager. Everyone in this clique is doing big things. So if you’re unfamiliar, it would be worth your while to ...
Source: Foot Locker / Foot Locker At this point we swear Foot Locker will find any reason to drop new exclusive collections and we ain’t even mad at them. With the holiday season officially upon us, Foot Locker has teamed up with some of the game’s most renowned street designers and ballers for their “12 Days of Greatness” capsule collections which celebrates our universal love of basketball while observing the 2020 holidays. Beginning November 20 a new capsule collection will be dropping on Footlocker/12daysofgreatness.com with the final collaboration releasing on December 26th. Designers involved in the project include street culture favorite names and NBA stars like Don C, Melody Ehsani, Montrezl Harrell, Kyle Kuzma, Sami Miro, and PJ Tucker amongst others. No le...
Source: Foot Locker / Foot Locker Is it us or does Foot Locker stay collaborating with different companies and brands to release some exclusive heat like every other month? Source: Foot Locker / Foot Locker After working with China Town Market and Anderson Bluu in recent months, Foot Locker is now looking to satisfy their customers sweet tooth by dropping some candy flavored treat just in time for Halloween and some other dope collabos in the coming weeks. October 31 will see the first of the three upcoming releases as on Hallows Eve Foot Locker will be unveiling a new UGG x Hersheys collaboration which will be taking their inspiration from Twizzlers to Kiss’s and be available in a full family size run so everyone can be dipped while trick-or-treating. Then on November 5 we’ll see the laun...
Source: Foot Locker x Chinatown Market / Foot Locker Foot Locker must be following P. Diddy’s 90’s mantra because in 2020 they on some old “Can’t Stop, won’t stop” ish for real for real. Source: Foot Locker x Chinatown Market / Foot Locker After launching all kinds of remix packs, collaborations and even an Air Max hub for the heads, Foot Locker is now gearing up for a new product launch via their Collaboraid initiative and it’s pretty damn spiffy. Continuing to release new product every Wednesday, today (Sep. 30) Foot Locker is releasing their latest collaboration merchandise with the street wear brand, Chinatown Market, which will consist of some cool tees and sweatshirts that feature some familiar looking bears that’ll make OG Lo Lives make a double-take. The designs are meant to pay ho...
Source: Foot Locker / Foot Locker Today (Sept. 17), Foot Locker, Inc. announced that it is partnering with Rock The Vote. If you can work a sneaker app, you can certainly figure out if you’re registered to vote, right? Source: Foot Locker / Foot Locker The team-up means more than 2,000 Foot Locker, Champs Sports and Footaction brick and mortar stores will be transformed into voting registration hubs. A sneaker destination is definitely one place to catch Gen Z consumers, and others as well. Starting next week and on time for “National Voter Registration Day” (September 22), if you step foot into a U.S. retail location in the Foot Locker family you will have access to a digital hub that lets you access to information like checking your voter registration status or ever registering to vote i...
Source: Foot Locker / Foot Locker Whether it’s pizza, assistants or the Earth itself, there is a “day” for everything—so why not sneakers? Foot Locker and Crep Protect have linked up to launch Sneaker Cleaning Day, on July 11. The kick-off entails a new IGTV Series called Sneaker Cleaning Day Prep School which is hosted by Brooklyn rapper and Wild ‘N Out cast member Conceited. Thanks to the coronavirus, many sneakerheads are stuck indoor. Nevertheless, that is no excuse not to keep your collection in tip top shape. The show will provide pointers on maintaining your kicks, both old and new. The three-part series is touted as a “masterclass on sneaker cleaning and maintenance.” “We are excited to introduce the first global Sneaker Cleaning Day,” says Richard McLeod, VP of Marketing for ...