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Due to flammability this product must ship ground. Shipping times may increase. Can not ship internationally.Click link in profile to shop.Abdul Al-Saady was on the move before the break of dawn. First, the 20-year-old drove 90 kilometres from his home in Barrie, Ont., to Toronto’s Finch Station, the northernmost stop on the city’s subway grid. Al-Saady then rode 13 stops to Ugly Dukling, a boutique footwear store near Yonge-Dundas Square that opened its doors at 8 a.m. sharp on a Saturday to sell its limited inventory of exclusive Air Jordan sneakers. The globally coveted Air Jordan 11 Retro Low Concord is a replica of an iconic basketball shoe originally worn by Michael Jordan during the 1995 NBA playoffs, slightly modified to a low-top silhouette. By the time Al-Saady reached his destination, the lineup outside the Edward Street storefront was already roughly 20 people deep, and appreciably longer at several neighbouring big-box retailers. The volume of patrons — one as young as 12, and others well into their forties — swelled by the minute.
“I got up at four o’clock this morning,” said Al-Saady who, along with his fellow sneaker enthusiasts, commonly referred to as sneakerheads, turned out in droves despite unseasonably inclement weather. “We don’t get the shoes [in Barrie] you get down here.” It took mere minutes for the bricks-and-mortar stores to sell out across the GTA, where sneaker launch lineups generally pale in comparison to the chaotic crowds south of the border. Nike sold its entire U.S. online stock within an hour, according to its Twitter account, while many frustrated customers expressed outrage over technical issues that allegedly plagued their online shopping experience. The cult-like fervour surrounding this particular sneaker, not unlike many of its prior and future Air Jordan counterparts, had been building for months, finally reaching fever pitch on the May 3 release date. Al-Saady and many others went home empty-handed. Acquiring a pair will now entail paying a sizable premium on the burgeoning secondary market.
It is a story of supply and demand, the basic fundamentals of microeconomics. And the demand for fashion-oriented athletic sneakers, said Stanly Zhou, co-owner of Toronto’s Capsule sneaker boutique, is larger than ever. “It is still growing,” said Zhou, whose Yorkville shopping district store regularly sells the latest retro Air Jordans, along with well-known brands like New Balance, Converse and Vans. “Everybody loves Jordan shoes, basketball shoes. However, said Zhou, “Jordan is unique. Jordan plus Nike equals the perfect storm.” Zhou, 34, was anticipating a particularly substantial turnout for the launch of the Air Jordan Retro 11s, voted the top shoe of all-time by Sole Collector magazine, an industry-leading publication. “For Jordan 11 releases, it is always a mess,” said Zhou, who last year divided Capsule’s shoe and apparel businesses into two separate Yorkville storefronts to capitalize on the demand for sneakers in Toronto. “It is the most popular of all the Jordan shoes.”
We only get limited pairs, so there are a lot of people you are turning away. My heart goes out to them The Air Jordan 11 features a patent leather mudguard, distinguishing it from its predecessors. Designed by Tinker Hatfield, named one of Fortune magazine’s “100 Most Influential Designers” of the 20th century, the shoe was worn by Jordan in the 1996 sports comedy film Space Jam. In one of the more notorious off-court moments in Air Jordan history, R&B group Boyz II Men paired Jordan 11s with tuxedos at the 1996 Grammy Awards. “The [Air Jordan] 11s always sell out because it is an iconic shoe,” said Melissa Davis, owner-operator of Ugly Dukling. Davis has had customers line up around the block, days in advance, for a variety of sneakers, most recently a black and crimson colourway of the Nike Air Foamposite Pro Premium, colloquially known as the Yeezy Foams for their tangential affiliation with rap star Kanye West. Specialty shops will at times run raffles to avoid riotous lineups for particularly hyped footwear.
“I had a lineup starting at 2 p.m. on Good Friday, and I did not open until Saturday at 8 a.m.,” Davis said. “We only get limited pairs, so there are a lot of people you are turning away. My heart goes out to them.” Davis and her competitors often lock in their release calendars months in advance, save for “quick-strikes,” which are relatively last-minute allocations, usually reserved for independent retailers. In the ensuing months before a new shoe launch, retailers actually play a minimal role in building the sort of immense hype that leads to 100-plus crowds. Strict brand guidelines often prohibit merchants from even publishing sneaker photos until the week of a release. That’s where blogs and trade publications come in. Yu-Ming Wu, the founder and publisher of multiple sneaker websites, including Sneaker News and Jordans Daily, had an inkling the market would expand steadily, but could not foresee the accelerated growth of sneaker demand over the last five years.
“A lot of people used to ask, ‘When will this [sneaker] thing die?’ ” Wu said over the phone from New York. “It’s no longer going to die. It’s how much bigger can it get?” is viewed roughly 35 million times per month, said Wu, who in 2009 co-founded the roving trade show, Sneaker Con, which drew 10,000 sneakerheads looking to buy, sell and trade footwear at its most recent New York City showcase. Celebrity influencers also play a significant role in feeding the fire, mainly through social networking tools such as Instagram and Twitter, where pro athletes, musicians and movie stars can be found showing off the latest sneakers before they are made available to the general public. Los Angeles Lakers guard Nick Young, rapper Wale and wrestling icon Hulk Hogan are among the most notorious sneakerheads. “People love to relate to who’s wearing it,” said Davis of Ugly Dukling. “What it is,” added Capsule’s Zhou, “is a brainwash.” Nike sold approximately 350,000 pairs of Air Jordan 11 Retro Low Concord sneakers in the U.S. on May 3, according to Matt Powell, an analyst with SportsOneSource, a research firm focused on the sporting goods industry.
At a retail price of US$150, first-day sales would be in the ballpark of $52-million. Retail sneaker sales in 2013 reached $22-billion in the U.S., with Nike controlling 59% of the market. Jordan Brand, a division of NIKE, Inc., accounts for 12.4% of the total, said Powell, well ahead of Adidas (8.4%) Asics (4.4%) and New Balance (3.1%). The most discernible change in the sneaker market — and especially with Air Jordans — has been what one Toronto sneaker boutique manager called “a legal hustle”: consumers securing as many pairs of in-demand sneakers as possible with the sole intent of flipping them. Nike consciously curbs retail allocations of sought-after sneakers like retro Air Jordans to prevent oversupplying the market. Unrequited demand is imperative to keeping a product afloat, while ubiquity all but guarantees a sneaker will fall out of favour. “The brands who have done a good job of controlling the ratio between supply and demand are the brands that continue to be successful,” said Powell, who authors the Sneakernomics column for Forbes.
“The brands that oversupply the market and crash it tend to be much more on a rollercoaster of performance.” Online reselling is what forces sneakerheads to line up outside retailers at ungodly hours or pay hefty markups. In Toronto alone, more than 25 pairs of Air Jordan 11 Retro Low Concord sneakers were posted for sale on the classifieds website Kijiji within a half-hour of the shoe launch, asking as much as double the $180 Canadian retail price. Hundreds more were available internationally. Adrian Campana, who manages Toronto’s Livestock sneaker boutique on Spadina Ave., has witnessed fights between would-be customers jostling for lineup position on sneaker drops. “What’s driving the lineups is resale value,” said Campana, whose store includes a consignment department dominated by retro Air Jordans currently selling for as much as $500. “I don’t necessarily condone buying to resell, because it ruins it for a lot of people. People are taking it to an extreme, buying up all these pairs, going from one store to the next.”
Just last month, a 15-year-old boy was shot in the leg while waiting in line outside a Brooklyn Foot Locker for a sneaker launch. Nike now supplies retailers with a restock of sneakers within a few months of the original release date, presumably to deflate the resale market. The trade has proven to be too alluring for even some Nike employees to resist. In April, Nike filed a U.S. federal lawsuit against five people, including three former staff, claiming they stole footwear for resale in a scheme dating back to 2006. The company also has to contend with software that allow buyers to cut Internet lineups and buy in bulk. Nike has recently taken steps to fight the web bots, including cancelling orders, but industry experts predict cybercriminals will continue finding ways to stay one step ahead. “The resale market has created an artificial demand,” Powell said. “And it’s caused the true Jordan fan to have to pay more. In my opinion, I think Nike would like to see the resale market go away.