Based in New York, Foot Locker is a leading retailer of athletic shoes and apparel and operates through two segments: Athletic Stores and Direct-to-Consumer.

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Basketball shoes are the biggest category of footwear for Foot Locker, which operates a total of more than 3, 400 Foot Locker, Lady Foot Locker, Footaction and Champs Sports stores.

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In the home team's locker room he challenged the executives to put themselves in the shoes of investors.

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Parker is working with Foot Locker with its jointly owned House of Hoops, a store dedicated exclusively to basketball shoes and apparel.

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Hicks has streamlined operations, minimized markdowns, installed a more disciplined allocations system to determine which stores get how many of what shoes and increased vendor exclusivity (half of product styles and colors are sold only at Foot Locker).

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