{"id":5720,"date":"2009-02-25T20:28:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T04:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5720"},"modified":"2009-02-25T20:38:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T04:38:35","slug":"where-have-all-the-surf-shoppers-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5720","title":{"rendered":"Where Have All The Surf Shoppers Gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/45269170.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/45269170.jpg','popup','width=500,height=320,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/45269170-tm.jpg\" height=\"128\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"45269170\" \/><\/a><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-surfecon26-2009feb26,0,2292570.story\" target=\"_blank\">The LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> looks for answers to the question: what happened to the surf fashion industry? Writer <strong>Andrea Chang<\/strong> catalogs all the year end reports we&#8217;ve linked to lately and talked to <strong>Quiksilver&#8217;s Bob McKnight<\/strong>, <strong>Huntington Surf &#38; Sport&#8217;s Aaron Pai<\/strong>, <strong>ASR&#8217;s Andy Tompkins<\/strong>, <strong>Tanya Turner <\/strong>at <strong>Jacks<\/strong> in Dana Point, <strong>Sport Chalet&#8217;s<\/strong> CEO <strong>Craig Levra<\/strong>, and longtime surfer <strong>Mike Dumitras<\/strong>, 30, who paid a friend $20 for an old Hurley wetsuit and patched it with duct tape rather than buying a new one.<\/p>\n<p>Bob McKnight, speaking from beneath Quik&#8217;s billion dollar mountain of debt, says they are prepared: &#8220;We&#8217;ve been through a couple downturns like this, so we know what to expect,&#8221; McKnight said. &#8220;But this one is certainly worse than anything we&#8217;ve seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what is the answer? Where have all the consumers gone? Turns out the economy is bad and people like <strong>Mike Dumitras<\/strong> just aren&#8217;t buying as much stuff as they were a year ago. Dammit, Mike. Would you buy a new wetsuit already. We&#8217;ve got an entire industry waiting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-surfecon26-2009feb26,0,2292570.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Times looks for answers to the question: what happened to the surf fashion industry? Writer Andrea Chang catalogs all the year end reports we&#8217;ve linked to lately and talked to Quiksilver&#8217;s Bob McKnight, Huntington Surf &#38; Sport&#8217;s Aaron Pai, ASR&#8217;s Andy Tompkins, Tanya Turner at Jacks in Dana Point, Sport Chalet&#8217;s CEO Craig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5723,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions\/5723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}