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Tuesday 29 December, 2009

Got your Nike Air Jordan XI Retro Space Jams yet?

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Ann Arbor area shoe stores deluged with shoppers seeking Nike's Air Jordan XI Space Jams

Got your Nike Air Jordan XI Retro Space Jams yet? If you're hot on the trail of the highly anticipated shoes, you aren't alone.

Shoe stores in the Ann Arbor region are being deluged with shoppers seeking the Nike shoes released this morning. They're officially called the Air Jordan XI Retro, but fans are referring to them as "Space Jams" since they look like the shoes Michael Jordan wore in the 1996 movie "Space Jam."

Local shoe stores are getting bombarded with shoppers seeking the Air Jordan XI Retro Space Jams, which cost $175.

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At Puffer Red's in Ypsilanti, about 30 shoppers waited in frigid temperatures for the store to open two hours early at 8 a.m. By 10 a.m. the store had already sold "a couple hundred" pairs and was almost sold out, store owner Tandra Williams said.

"It’s a little more hype on this one," she said.

Briarwood Mall avoided a last-minute holiday shopping melee after police were called to maintain order in the crowd of shoppers trying to score the new shoes early this morning.

Champs Sports and Foot Locker - both owned by New York-based Foot Locker Inc. - opened hours early to sell the shoes.

Briarwood Mall General Manager Ida Hendrix said about 60 customers were "anxiously” gathering to buy the $175 shoes. She said no scuffles or fights broke out.

“We proactively called Ann Arbor (police) just to make sure that there was line control,” Hendrix said.

Foot Locker corporate officials could not be reached for comment, and a Champs store manager at Briarwood declined to comment.

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