Foot Locker did recently break bellow a long term uptrend, but it appears to be more of a short term pull back than a longer term decline. Finish Line problems appear to be execution problems within the company. Furthermore a shift from running to basketball would benefit Foot Locker more even if Finish Line makes a strong push in basketball.
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"I'm someone that hadn't had a date in ten years," King says with a slight sense of irony. "David told me I had to get rid of the busted suitcase, the two shoe boxes, and a bag of miscellaneous Nike items that were cluttering my love area. Now I've started dating.
The company recently stated in its earnings transcript: [1] As we look to the next few quarters, we expect continued strength in consumer demand as well as intensifying gross margin pressure from input cost inflation and from airfreight For the full year FY we continue to expect gross margin will be at least 50 basis points below the prior year. As a result of these concerns, we have maintained our gross margin expectations for 2011, expecting a decline of about 0.5%. We think that gross margins will take another year to recover as Nike gradually implements price increases to offset the impact of added costs.
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