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What preparation if any have you been doing for the possibility of tariffs?
I've bought approximately five pairs of sneakers in the past two weeks, to try to get ahead of potential supply disruptions on the one brand of sneakers that actually fit my weird wide flat feet.
New Balance? I have a weird wide flat foot. As a teen, New Balance was the only brand that fit me. And I haven't bothered since then to try any others, so I'm curious if your one brand that fits is the same as mine.
I stocked up on durable goods before the election, so now I'm mostly maintaining my stockpile.
They are also the only main stream brand that has size EE across almost their whole product line.
Width D is almost always too narrow for me, yes even if your band claims to have a "wide toe box." Especially if you have flat feet, shoes are also too narrow around the arch. Width 4E is apparently for people with crazy hobbit feet, where they feel like they are wider than they are long. My experience is like 95% of shoe salesmen will try to tell you you'll be fine with D or 4E. Why would I be asking if you had EE if one of those would work?
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The minimus was the perfect sneaker for me circa maybe 2013, but like a fool I only bought one pair and by the time I needed another pair, they'd changed them and they no longer fit when I went to buy another pair. But I found a company on Amazon, Whitin, that makes a knockoff that is almost the same, and actually does a lot of styles in the same last, so now I bought several pairs for fear of losing it again.
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None. I think the impact of tariffs will turn out to be wildly overrated. I have no actual empirical basis for that belief or an articulable mechanism, I just kind of don't believe that Nike is actually going to have more than a marginal price change. Maybe I'll be wrong, but my current stance is that "tariffs don't work" will be even more true than many people believe.
I tend to agree on predictions of long-term apocalypse.
Where I'm concerned is about specialized, low volume, low price items that aren't high prestige. At work we're stockpiling parts for obscure old machines. I'm not worried about Nike raising prices on popular shoe lines, so much as about companies folding altogether or consolidating SKUs.
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