NY Times: Inside the Knockoff-Tennis-Shoe Factory.
“Counterfeiters played a low-budget game of industrial espionage, bribing employees at the licensed factories to lift samples or copy blueprints. Shoes were even chucked over a factory wall, according to a worker at one of Nike’s Putian factories. It wasn’t unusual for counterfeit models to show up in stores before the real ones did.” Bonus points to the author for using the verb ‘chucked’.
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