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by Morizero 1404 days ago
And yet, Nike's sales surged when they brought on Kaepernick

> Despite Fox News and parts of the social mediasphere predicting the Swoosh’s downfall, the company claimed $163 million in earned media, a $6 billion brand value increase, and a 31% boost in sales.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90399316/one-year-later-what-did...

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> ... brought on Kaepernick

not long after, the Nike Store in Scottsdale, Arizona 'went out of business'.

I wondered if it was correlated.

If your statement is true, it sounds like it was for sure correlated.
it could have been for different reasons though: it was in an expensive spot with multiple floors, so maybe just had not been profitable anyway.

Within the last year, they opened up a way less nice Nike store about 5 miles away in a different outdoors mall, but it's more like the Nike outlets i've seen elsewhere.

Nike’s revenue curve is pretty much linear since 2009 except for pandemic: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/stock-comparison?s=revenu...
Yes, excellent observation, both Republicans and Democrats buy products.