The German shoe company, founded over 240 years ago, is sick of fake versions of its shoes being sold on the online retailer’s site.
Source: Why Birkenstock Is Kissing Amazon Goodbye
I attended San Diego State University. The campus is huge and student enrollment is bananas with a freshman class that tops 10,000 in certain years. When we were between classes we all used to lounge in different areas. For me and my crew we were in Montezuma’s Den or sitting in front of the stage area in the shade. All day we would see White kids rocking what we called Jesus sandals. SDSU was about 3% black and my best friends on campus consisted of a White rugby player, a Biracial PhD candidate, a Black mathematician, and a Mexican Jamaican ex drug dealer. We got so sick of seeing the shoes that we all decided to try a pair just for giggles. I actually wore my “Jesus” sandals until I moved to Memphis… In other words Birkenstocks were comfy ass shoes.
The source article above is about Birkenstock removing their products from Amazon. In that article it also discusses a woman who created a great bedsheet product and how her product was knocked off and sold on Amazon causing her sales to drop drastically. I recently told my own story about quitting Amazon:
