While it’s usually a friendly, good news platform, LinkedIn unexpectedly became a virtual battleground recently between two Czech sneaker tycoons. It all started when a vandal spray painted the storefront of the shoe retailer Footshop with the words: “Shoe makers are going hungry. Footshop is shit!” To understand what happened next, you have to know that Footshop promotes and sells limited edition sneakers from international brands like Nike and Adidas. The shoe makers in question, in other words, are Czech.
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