Kanye West is putting Walmart on blast for ripping off the design of his popular Yeezy Foam Runner. According to TMZ, Kanye filed a lawsuit against Walmart claiming hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for imitating his Foam Runner design and reselling their product at $24.99.
The Chicago-bred mogul first debuted the design in 2019 before the Foam Runner hit shelves for $75 in 2020 and are now sold-out everywhere with a resale value of more than triple retail. The legal docs viewed by TMZ claim Kanye sent several warnings to Walmart to pull the product off their website but the retail giant never obliged.
The imitation Foam Runners remain on Walmart’s website advertised as the “Summer beach shoes Foam Runner” and come in an array of colors. Walmart’s “unauthorized exact copy” has sizes for men, women and kids.
Yeezy and Walmart already have history tied up in the legal system. In April, Walmart sued Kanye West claiming his new Yeezy logo was too close to their spark. Kanye’s team says the logo resembles “rays of the sun” and is trying to avoid the trademark lawsuit.
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Walmart, who has been employing the logo since 2007, believes Kanye’s is “likely to cause confusion and lead to consumer deception.” The 44-year-old had plans to reportedly use the logo when branding sneakers, underwear, furniture and modular homes.
Damn then ye stole that idea from Crocs
Hahahaha you clowns forkin over top dollar for
some Yeezy crocs when Wal Mart showin yall the same cheaply made bullshit is actually worth a fraction of what hypebeasts pay.
Most I could ever spend on a pair of shoes around the hundred bucks range, IF…I really liked them. There’s obviously times when shoes are worth more too, like some hand made leather shoes to go with a suit or some shit. But Yeezys look like absolute shit and look cheap too. Anybody paying the crazy prices for this trash are SUCKAS!!!!
Gawd those shoes are fucking ugly like crocs. Not to say they arent knock offs but Kanye belings in a padded cell to begin with.
If Alien was casually lounging on a Sunday afternoon you can bet your ass he will be wearing a pair of these mofos.
Now people wearing yeezy. U see ppl wearing jordans lebrons kobess so understand there net worth u see the brand ect no1 u see is wearing yeezy if so theyre in bel air beverly hills the hamptons and manhattan or europe .
I really wish Walmart and Yeezy weren’t fighting over this. They both just want to sell overpriced shoes made by slaves in Chinese re-education camps.
pretty sure this model could be pooped out by a robot extrusion machine of sorts, pretty sure most shoes these days are mostly automated, ud think being “worth” a billion 1 would spend 20 million on a factory and put his people to work building wealth but oh well