Perhaps. And Ezra Klein’s reaction seems right on:

Looking back, the fact that people bought 100 million pairs of the ugliest shoes ever made, and then began buying charms in order to add gaudiness to the monstrosity, should have been evidence that the amount of money sloshing through the economy had made us lose our minds.

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7 replies on “Crocs Going Bankrupt?”

  1. This doesn’t make sense. You can add up all of the shoes you recommend in this blog and you won’t touch croc’s sales. Obviously people like them, just like they like wal☆mart and hundreds of other brands.
    “Need more comfortable footwear”? but then under the shoe category the second story after crocs is a criticism again!

    “I’m not much of a sneaker person (the high heeled versions are generally an abomination, and they pretty much all are manufactured under circumstances that put my faint liberal heart on high alert),”

    The third article contains a picture of wooden shoes?
    Fourth , $819 wooden arch-killers!
    Fifth: An out of business shoe store?
    Sixth: You recommend shoes where you can add your “own design” to them. Sounds a lot like the same criticism of crocs!

  2. They’re a far sight better that the ill-fitted, ironically retro trash worn by the majority of hipster douchebags in this town.

  3. Yeah, yeah they’re ugly. Whatever. They’re cheap, comfortable, quiet and they’ll last forever.

    I see people all the time wearing ugly footwear that they: obviously dropped a load of cash on, won’t wear next year and are probably as uncomfortable as hell.

    Now, I can’t say I wear mine out in public much but around the house/garden they can’t be beat.

  4. they’ll probably just sell the company off to Target or another big-box chain and re-launch it as an “exclusive” store brand.

    seems like that’s what happens when brands die these days– see Airwalk, who got bought up by Payless.

  5. But my Vans are cheap, comfortable, quiet, will last, well, a really long time, and don’t make me look like I belong on the set of Yo Gabba Gabba.

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