Supreme Grows Up | GQ
So Steiner was surprised when I told him that by Thursday afternoon, hours after the appointed 11:00 am drop time, I could still add practically every product from the North Face collection to my cart. The stock-clearing bot swarm, in other words, had not materialized. “That’s crazy,” Steiner said. “That was never a thing. It would be like, there’s a huge problem with the website if they’re still in stock after five minutes.”
The problem wasn’t with the website but, it seems, with the bots. Supreme has been locked in an arms race with bot networks for years, introducing measures…