Eastbay.com closed in January 2023 and Foot Locker folded it into Champs Sports. Eastbay was Foot Locker division 81; Champs and Foot Locker still order through AIMS360.
Eastbay sold athletic shoes and apparel by catalog and online, and Foot Locker owned it from 1997. Foot Locker closed Eastbay.com in January 2023 and folded it into Champs Sports.
No. Foot Locker closed Eastbay.com on 13 January 2023 and sent its shoppers to the Champs Sports website. It sold the Eastbay team sales business to BSN Sports in 2022. There is no Eastbay buying program and no Eastbay purchase orders today.
Eastbay orders never had their own connection. They came through the Foot Locker trading partner as division 81, and that partner is still live in AIMS360. If you sold to Eastbay, the same setup carries Champs Sports, division 18, and the other Foot Locker banners.
From catalog to Champs Sports.
| Date | What happened |
|---|---|
| 1980 to 1998 | Eastbay was founded in 1980, bought by Foot Locker in 1997 and launched its website in 1998. |
| 2019 to 2021 | Foot Locker began combining Eastbay with Champs Sports, and by 2021 the two traded as Champs Sports x Eastbay. |
| 27 June 2022 | Foot Locker agreed to sell its team sales business, part of Eastbay, to BSN Sports, a Varsity Brands division. |
| 13 January 2023 | Eastbay.com stopped taking orders and began sending shoppers to the Champs Sports website. |
| 8 September 2025 | DICK'S Sporting Goods closed its purchase of Foot Locker, Champs Sports included. |
Sources: Retail Dive (3 January 2023) and Total Retail (27 June 2022). The DICK'S date is from our Champs Sports page.
A division on the Foot Locker trading partner, not its own connection.
| Division | Banner | Status, 4 Nov 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| 81 | Eastbay | Retired. No orders since the site closed. |
| 18 | Champs Sports | Live. Took over Eastbay.com shoppers. |
| 77 | Champs Sports Canada | Live, on the same trading partner. |
| 03 | Foot Locker | Live, on the same trading partner. |
| 16 | Kids Foot Locker | Live, on the same trading partner. |
Foot Locker sends one sender and receiver ID for all its divisions. AIMS360 reads the division number on each 850 and files the order to the account you activated for it.
Programs on the same or similar documents.
Where Eastbay.com shoppers were sent in 2023. Same trading partner, division 18. See Champs Sports EDI.
Foot Locker and Kids Foot Locker in the US and Canada, under one vendor manual. See Foot Locker EDI.
DICK'S and Hibbett buy athletic footwear and apparel on their own programs. See DICK'S EDI and Hibbett EDI.
Our EDI team runs this with you.
Clear any open division 81 orders, invoices or deductions, then mark the Eastbay account inactive.
Ask AIMS360 to activate the account for Champs Sports or another Foot Locker division your buyer opened.
Follow Foot Locker's current manual for the 856 timing, the 810 cutoff and routing.
Run a test order through the 850, 856 and 810 with our EDI team before the first live order.
No. Foot Locker closed Eastbay.com on 13 January 2023 and redirected shoppers to the Champs Sports website. Some Eastbay-branded products were sold on the Champs site after that.
Foot Locker agreed in June 2022 to sell its team sales business, which sat under Eastbay, to BSN Sports, a division of Varsity Brands.
Champs Sports took over the Eastbay.com shoppers and runs on the same trading partner as division 18. See Champs Sports EDI.
DICK'S Sporting Goods, since it closed its purchase of Foot Locker on 8 September 2025. See Foot Locker EDI for what changed for vendors.
No. EDI is built into AIMS360 as an add-on on any plan, Bronze through Gold, with unlimited transactions and a trading partner line for each retailer. There are no per-document, VAN or kilocharacter fees. See pricing.
See a Foot Locker order file to the right division and go out as an 856 and 810 without anyone keying it.
