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Look at you, using a bunch of words to justify this bull****.
What you fail to acknowledge is what this represents and indicates about adidas practices, while you flap your gums about "standard operating procedure" and "excessive demand" and "tariffs". Your comments are stupid and ignorant beyond words.
All I can say is that I hope and pray that you are NEVER in a position of management for a large multinational company. Either people would laugh at you or you would be fired.
I just want to make sure that I can understand what you are saying here before I mock it to death. Your claim is that an apparel company...which manufactures overseas (and the manufacture process includes the making of the shirt AND the screening of the shirt)...made thousands and thousands of RED shirts overseas...then shipped them to the United States...where they held these "blank shirts" for THREE YEARS, including a full year before tariffs even became a serious issue...for the odd chance that after three years, there would be an adidas vs. adidas National Championship and one of the adidas schools that features red as a color (particularly a school that had not won its CONFERENCE since 1967, let alone a national title) would win a national championship and experience such profound demand for merchandise that it would SUDDENLY become a moneymaker to use shirts that were paid for 3 years ago, warehoused for all of that time in a way that the shirts did not suffer mold or mildew damage, and that this would be a brilliant move because "tariffs" that some Nostradamus was able to predict years in advance?
Wow. That is some kind of craziness that I've rarely ever seen postulated on this board. You are so desperate to attribute some brilliant business strategery to adidas that you invent a bizarre (and impossible) rationale instead of using Occam's Razor to conclude that adidas simply found some old t-shirt stock of which they were unaware and decided to use it for a high-profile product for a premium school instead of burning it off for a lesser program like NC State.
Wild. It's wild how you think that throwing a few verbal firecrackers will then allow you to come back to a final paragraph where you accuse "Nike cultists" of having a lack of common sense and logic, when that is what YOU have displayed throughout this entire thread.
Please, dear god, never let this dopey Canedude get a job with a big company, at least not at one that is successful and trying to make money.
First, allow me to state the most obvious point of all. In your weird fantasy, this brilliant move by adidas to stockpile red t-shirts for THREE YEARS would have been DESTROYED had Carson Beck led Miami the last 41 yards to victory. Oh, lord, imagine the pain and agony that would have been wracking the body of that genius adidas executive who commissioned the creation of thousands and thousands of shirts three years ago, and who paid for these shirts to be warehoused in the United States, all for that unlikely day when INDI-*******-ANA would win its first conference football title in nearly 60 years AND win the National Championship...all of that amazing planning would have been destroyed by an accurate Carson Beck pass! Ah, the horror, the horror...
Second, as alluded to before, you simply don't understand business. Or tariffs. Or how a business operates. Even if I could (laugh-free) try to entertain your premise that the shirts from 2023 was some kind of hedge against tariffs (laugh, laugh, laugh, sorry), your idea would make no sense. First, massive tariffs were not even a very real thing in 2023. Nobody was planning for tariffs in 2023. Biden was going to be re-elected and "tariffs" was just a word that Donnie Trump repeated to himself as he tried to fall asleep each night for 2 or 3 hours. Second, whatever "tariffs" would be saved, you have to realize you would need to get those t-shirts INTO the United States before tariffs were imposed. Meaning those shirts could not be printed with any graphics UNLESS THAT HAPPENED IN THE US. And as we have seen before, the cost of labor in the US is high, so you would be reducing your "tariff savings" by paying MORE to get the shirts printed in the US. Not to mention, you are going to have to keep that "blank shirt" inventory stored (with climate-control) in the US for THREE YEARS. And storing inventory is NOT CHEAP, which is one of the reasons that the Japanese invented Just-In-Time inventory methods back in the 1970s and 1980s. So you would have ANOTHER cost that reduces the "tariff savings". And this is all BEFORE you realize that if Trump is "successful" in using the thread of tariffs to exact trade concessions from other countries, THEN THE TARIFFS WILL BE REDUCED. But somehow, some way, some genius at adidas had figured out this entire play three years ago and knew EXACTLY what was going to happen? Maybe ask that guy to look into the future and predict better apparel for adidas to manufacture.
Finally, you backwards-engineered some half-assed explanation, while ignoring the most obvious explanation. At some point, someone in the Production process realized that adidas had spent a massive amount of money preserving BLANK INVENTORY for 3 years and then demanded that the inventory be used as quickly as possible. This is the ACTUAL OUTCOME when a manager or executive in a large multi-national company realizes that someone else has overlooked THREE-YEAR-OLD inventory, and that the company has paid a massive amount to store that inventory for THREE YEARS.
Sadly, this was a colossal corporate ****-up. Not "standard operating procedure". Not some brilliant tariff play. Just another ****-up by adidas.
