A retailer wants to turn and there's only one person to call. You're listening to

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I'm Ricky Mulvey joined today by the person we are calling now for the third time

to talk about this turnaround the first time you're hearing it it's Jim Gillies Jim

Thanks for being here. Thanks, thanks for the invite Ricky.

We're doing Pleasantries for the third time a couple of

fall starts with today's recording.

Let's get into it because we talked about Nike's trouble on Friday's show, Osset, Ron, and Dylan covered it.

Let's talk, you like the little companies. You like a retailer that makes some money that not a lot of people are talking about.

And that's Footlocker, which is in an interesting position. There's a

good story in CNBC about it from Gabrielle-upon-Rogue. But basically Nike had this idea

a few years back under its then-C CEO John Donahoe, which was that, you know what,

we have these distribution partners like D.S.W. and Footlocker, and sure, they sell a lot of shoes

for us, but we're going to be a tech company.

We're going to start selling shoes directly to the consumer.

We're going to do it through apps.

That hasn't really worked.

And now what we might be seeing, Jim, is, you know, maybe the new CEO, Elliot Hill is going outside of the footlocker with a boombox playing the bleacher's song, I want to get better. Maybe this relationship is starting to repair and could mean

something for footlockers. So do you think we're going to see that new appreciation

under Nike's new leadership for those distribution partners that they've sort of set aside for a few years?

I think so, yes. And I'm going to lead out full disclosure when the news that John Donahoe.

I mean, look, you bring a guy over from PayPal,

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