The creator questions the marketing strategy of the golf apparel brand G/FORE, highlighting a disconnect between their high-fashion, colorful advertising and the actual purchasing habits of their customers. He uses sales data from the tool Particl to demonstrate that while the brand heavily promotes vibrant and unconventional styles of shorts and shoes, the vast majority of their sales come from basic, neutral colors like black, grey, and navy. He concludes by pointing out the widening gap between the brand's image and its commercial reality, inviting a discussion about this 'bizarre' strategy and promoting the data tool he used.
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Everytime I stumble into the G/Fore website I wonder if they actually sell this stuff and it appears the answers is no, not much of it. Shout out Particl for the data 🏴☠️ #golflife #golfstagram #gfore
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Anyone explain g four to me? The brand has always seemed a little at odds with all the golf guys that I know are obsessed with the product. Makes me wonder, does anyone actually buy all these colorways that they merchandise? Like, I'm looking at shorts that come in acid lime, mosaic, and framboise, whatever whatever that means. I'm looking at the sales in Particle. And of the 1,173 pairs of these shorts that have sold this year, 51% of them are black, gray, or navy. Like that acid lime color, they've sold 38 pairs this year. Anyway, shoes. I hit the best sellers tab, which appears to be sorted from preschool down to adult here. Then we go look at sales, and, yeah, like, none of those are in the top five. Look at what is merchandise, what is most prominent compared to what actually sells. The gap between how g four shows up and what they actually sell just keeps getting wider. Good, I'm not an idiot. I know that Nike doesn't sell me shoes by showing me the dad bods that actually buy them. But this is bizarre. I I I just wanna talk, guys. I use this tool, Particle, to look up all GeForce sales data. You can learn more about it at the link in my bio. Let's go.