Marshalls is on the hunt for labels, they don’t care what the product is. The tab will tell you what the description and style number of the shoe is, what sizes are available, what the retail was, and what price they’re offering it for. Nike presents Marshalls or TJ Maxx with an Excel spreadsheet that has different tabs depending on the category: Retro Basketball or Running. When Marshalls goes to Nike, they’ll have an offer on the table and say, “We have hundreds of thousands of units of last-season goods.” They can be anything from RTVs , vendors not being able to pay their accounts, or stuff that was late for a release from the factory and didn’t make it to the stores on time. To figure out how this process works, we spoke to Kwabena Richard Leibel, who worked at Marshalls from 2008 to 2012 in the highest capacity as an Associate Planner, meaning he allocated all of the brands sneakers to its numerous storefronts. Included in that bunch is Victor Cruz, who found an unreleased version of his own signature Nike sneaker at the retailer this past year. There’s always a bit of skepticism when these sneakers are found at Marshalls, mainly because everyone is in disbelief. Instagram has been littered with stories of coveted shoes being found at these discount stores, and the Fragment x Air Jordan 1s, which have a resale value of around $1,800, recently popped up at Marshalls and set the Internet ablaze. The tales of people walking into a Marshalls or Ross and finding a pair long-gone, hyped sneakers for a fraction of their original retail price have become things of lore.
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