NEVER Go to a Nike Store!

Nike Factory Store - Jersey Gardens - Elizabeth, NJ

Nike is a billion dollar shoe business, the most popular in its industry with the most universally recognizable logo. They offer a wide range of shoe colors with adjustables and high tech comfort as well as custom Nikes too. It has inspired many to air brush their own pair of white Nikes and build careers off of that 

As someone who wore many pairs of Nikes over the years, I do not understand what is so special about a company that mainly sells shoes. 

Shoes are made to be worn to protect your feet from the hard surface of grass and concrete and etc... Is Nike basically capitalizing off of the insecurities of its consumers?

We know they buy materials from factories in poor countries, outsourcing jobs, child labor, and continuing the economic disasters in these countries for many many families.

What makes a pair of shoes so special? Don't we wear shoes just to protect our feet? Are these shoe companies pushing consumers to be foot models? Are we [consumers] obsessed with having colored footwear for every piece of clothing to match instead of the traditional black and white?

One day, I was shopping at an outlet, and I saw the Nike store. I did not need a pair of shoes, but I went inside to check out anything of interest. As soon as I step through the front door, the checkout lines were wrapped around the store, and these customers had the most unemotional look on their faces as if they were robots in an assembly line. I immediately left. I said to myself, "I will NEVER wait in a line that long for a pair of shoes. I can go to Walmart and buy a pair of shoes with barely a line."

I am not telling anyone what to do with their money, but I will tell you what I will NOT do. If, if I have 3 or 4 pairs of shoes that are NOT worn out, I will NOT buy more shoes. Why buy more shoes if you already have a couple of pairs?

Nike is not the greatest thing on Earth. The greatest thing on Earth is yourself, and nothing else shall be treated above you otherwise.