{"id":52799,"date":"2020-12-05T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=168739"},"modified":"2020-12-05T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T10:04:00","slug":"foot-locker-temporarily-closes-orchard-outlet-no-in-store-events-this-weekend-singapore-news-top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2020\/12\/05\/foot-locker-temporarily-closes-orchard-outlet-no-in-store-events-this-weekend-singapore-news-top-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Foot Locker temporarily closes Orchard outlet, no in-store events this weekend, Singapore News &amp; Top Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>- by admin<br \/>\nSINGAPORE \u2013 Shoe retailer Foot Locker has temporarily closed its Orchard Gateway @ Emerald outlet after large crowds gathered on Friday (Dec 4) evening, prompting an investigation by the authorities.<br \/>\nThe crowds had gathered apparently for Saturday\u2019s release of the limited-edition Adidas sneaker, an item that can fetch a tidy profit on the secondary market due to high demand. CopyAMP code<br \/>\nA Foot Locker spokesman told The Straits Times on Saturday that it will not be hosting any in-store events this weekend.<br \/>\n\u201cWe take the issues of crowding seriously and are continuing to work diligently and proactively to maintain safe distance for all of our shoppers and staff members.<br \/>\n\u201cWe will continue to enforce restrictions on maximum occupancy for all of our stores according to the guidelines set forth by local authorities,\u201d said the spokesman.<br \/>\nWhen ST visited the footwear store at around 10am on Saturday, there were no crowds.<br \/>\nSecurity officers were seen advising some members of the public waiting outside the store that the sneaker launch had been cancelled.<br \/>\nOn Friday, photos circulated on social media showed a crowd of around 100 people packed shoulder to shoulder outside the footwear store at about 8pm.<br \/>\nThe crowds dispersed shortly after 8.30pm after safe distancing ambassadors and police officers arrived.<br \/>\nAdidas\u2019 Yeezy sneaker line, the product of a collaboration between rapper Kanye West and the sports shoe brand, drew large crowds in Singapore and abroad during past launches.<br \/>\nAdidas Singapore had held an online ballot for Saturday\u2019s limited release, but many sneaker aficionados who missed out appeared to have wanted to try their luck at Foot Locker, given the high resale value of the shoes.<br \/>\nLast June, the launch of the limited-edition Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 V created a long queue lasting many hours before the release at Foot Locker\u2019s Jewel Changi Airport outlet.<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; by admin<br \/>\nSINGAPORE \u2013 Shoe retailer Foot Locker has temporarily closed its Orchard Gateway @ Emerald outlet after large crowds gathered on Friday (Dec 4) evening, prompting an investigation by the authorities.<br \/>\nThe crowds had gathered apparently for S&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,1108,1002,465],"tags":[2124,6518,10421,10440,1859,10380,7596],"class_list":["post-52799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law","category-police","category-retail","category-social-media","tag-airport","tag-aviation","tag-changi","tag-shoes","tag-singapore","tag-singapore-general-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52800,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52799\/revisions\/52800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}