Raleigh flip-flop company hosts launch party
Kinder Soles, Raleigh-based maker of “buy-one, give-one” flip-flops, is throwing a launch party in downtown Raleigh this Thursday at Tir Na Nog Irish Pub & Restaurant from 6-9 p.m. The event supports Soles4Souls, the company’s charitable partner, with a shoe drive and percentage of proceeds from sales at the event.
WHEN: Thursday, May 20, from 6p.m.-9 p.m.
WHERE: Tir Na Nog Irish Pub & Restaurant
218 South Blount Street
Raleigh, NC 27601
Big Fat Gap, the popular back-porch bluegrass band, will play live music and Green Planet, which features locally grown, pesticide and hormone free foods, will cater the event. Local artists are also contributing pieces that demonstrate and raise awareness about the shoe shortage movement for silent auction to benefit Soles4Souls. The event is free and guests are encouraged to bring a pair of gently-worn shoes for donation to receive $20 toward the purchase of Kinder Soles sandals.
Americans throw away at least 300 million pairs of shoes each year that end up rotting in our own landfills, while an estimated 300 million children around the world have never owned a pair of shoes. Each pair of Kinder Soles sold offers a significant rebate for donating a pair of shoes sitting idle in your closet.
Kinder Soles, co-founded by Mark Saad and Chris Smith, is a socially-responsible designer of healthy and eco-friendly flip-flops. The company promotes social responsibility through a donation rebate business model: buy-one, give-one. Kinder Soles has partnered with Soles4Souls to provide gently used shoes to people in need both domestically and internationally. Kinder Soles are made from recycled materials and have foot beds ergonomically designed to give better support.
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smitty
05/18 05:48 PM
Sweet, $50 flip flops.
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Lefty Himself
05/18 07:28 PM
Sweet, Green Planet food.
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Keith Crabtree is the INSTIGATOR
05/18 11:34 PM
Sweet, another progressive eco-friendly locally-grown renewable sustainable business model that will fail because it misses the point: MAKE MONEY NOT LOVE.
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Seann
05/19 01:24 AM
Where can I buy these??
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Phillo
05/19 02:58 AM
How the fuck do you hunt in flip-flops?
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Phillo
05/19 03:02 AM
Whoops. Reread.
We aren’t a beach community. Why the fuck are you wearing flip-flops? -
RaleighRob
05/19 09:13 AM
^ Because Raleigh in July is like living in a steamroom.
Seriously, what’s with the rude, negative comments? Get a life people.
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Drew
05/19 10:26 AM
Sweet, another comment that perpetuates the myth that unsustainable, eco-unfriendly businesses are immune from social/environmental responsibilities that will eventually be debunked because it misses the point: MAKE LOVE _AND_ MONEY.
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smitty
05/19 03:50 PM
You want to keep shoes out of the landfill? Don’t buy any, wear your old ones.
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Harry Seaward
05/19 05:06 PM
i don’t wear flip flops in case i get chased by something, like a bear.
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CR
05/19 05:23 PM
A grown man should not wear flip flops unless he will be swimming sometime in the next ten minutes.
Nevertheless, I hope this company does well.
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Sea Bass
05/19 07:42 PM
Ring worm
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Carver
05/20 12:27 PM
I love cutting my old shoes into a modified version of a flip flip style. Sorta’ how I like to go to Walmart and buy blues jeans and cut them off about yea’ high with the pockets hanging out well past the cut off! Amazing!
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Lisa Jeffries
05/20 04:22 PM
“because it misses the point: MAKE MONEY NOT LOVE.”
I don’t know what kind of cost of goods Kinder Soles has going on, but I imagine that even within the $30-50 retail price point they can make money and a tiny bit of positive impact on the world, my friends
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James
05/21 05:22 PM
NR should do a story about a brick. Just a picture of a brick and the sentence, “This is a brick.” I’d like to see the complaining about the brick and how it’s so stupid and it’s going to fail at being a brick. If the internet makes you that angry, stop accessing it… Maybe you’d be in a better mood if you took off your shoes and wore a nice comfy pair of flip flops.
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