Did the DCF stores suffer because of the later accusations of sweatshop conditions in Nikes factories overseas?
Oh no. I’m dealing on the retail end; That’s the manufacturing. On the retail end, the only thing they wanted to know was can I get that shoe Can you get it and can you move it ? There you go! I’m not worried about all that other stuff. We were able work with them on that. Several of the stores eventually closed. Why? When the economy went down [in the early 1990s], a lot of customers had gone away. It was really difficult for them to make it. We worked with them as long as we could. Some of the people decided to just give up, because they didn’t have the deep pockets or the resources. We still have two stores in Prince George’s County. They have funding from other sources. They paid us off. The young people who had the opportunity to do this, they’re the better off. I think the community is the better off, in that they had that kind of exposure, they had that kind of opportunity and convenience from having a Nike outlet in the community. Were the stores affected by Michael Jordan’s re
