- Sep 28, 2004
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- 5,900
Inflation is interesting. I don't want to get into a long rant here. But you simply cannot forget about technological advancements. Whether its R&D already being done with the original, to having the molds already, to knowing more efficient ways to construct a shoe. There is a reason Signature Basketball shoes YEAR after YEAR hover around $130-160. With inflation, you would think all of our Nikes would be well over $200 bucks by now.
Nike has given us more for less in recent years but I think they saw that as a losing trend, as their push for billions more $$$$ and decided against that. One example was an air trainer 1 from 2000. The 1990 retail was $120. Common inflation would have that shoe at $157. Instead in 2000, the retro sat at $90... That's an anomaly though. Just as electronics get better and better and cheaper and cheaper (or staying the same relative price), shoes should held in that same regard, but they are not. Hypebeasts ruin the common sense trends that surround us.
