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1 Year Later: Feet Scarred From "Chemical Flip Flops," Walmart Still Not Talking
It's been about a year since Kelly Stiles' feet were (somehow) injured by a $3 pair of Walmart flip flops. In that time, Kelly says her feet haven't fully healed and she still can't wear sandals or flip flops. She says she still has pain where she was injured. More »
fads
The Crocs Fad Is Over?! Profits Down, Will Close 1 Factory
Like Zubaz pants before them, Crocs seem to be well on their way to assuming their rightful place of honor in the bad fad hall of fame as the company slashed its sales forecast and announced that it would be closing a plant in Quebec due to decreased traffic in its US stores. More »
important marketing decisions
Zappos: We Want To Be "Known As A Customer Service Company, Not A Marketing Company"
Reader Matt forwarded this email exchange he had with Zappos.com over their recent decision to stop promoting their price guarantee and free overnight shipping.
He has intended to switch to another shoe seller, but has decided to give Zappos another shot considering the email response he received.
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The Boston Globe profiles the last remaining shoe and boot maker in New England, Alden Shoes. The company's classic footwear has been worn by the likes of John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Indiana Jones... and the Massachusetts state troopers. The shoes will set you back about $350-$500 a pair, but they seem like awfully nice people. "Our shoes don't wear out," says Robert Clark, Alden's vice president. [Boston Globe]
fake
Knockoff Products Smuggled Into The U.S. Labeled "Refrigerated Noodles"
Federal agents have announced that they've busted a smuggling ring that brought hundreds of millions of dollars worth of knockoff products into the US, says the NYT. More »
First there was jeans and shirts. Now Nike is reissuing old sneakers "already-vintaged." Will they fall apart in a few months, just like the real thing? [Nice Kicks via Don't Believe The Hypebeast]
discounts
Shoebuy.com Doesn't Honor 110% Price Guarantee
Shoebuy has a neat 110% discount policy, where they'll refund you the difference+10% if you find a lower final price (after discounts, tax, shipping, etc.) at a competitor. The only problem is, they take an insurance-claim adjustor's approach to honoring it—by which we mean, they invent loopholes to void the offer. In one reader's case, they said that because he used a discount code, his discount wasn't available to the general public. Therefore his final price didn't count, case closed, next customer please. The details of their 110% guarantee make zero mention of discount codes or coupons, or of any requirement of public availability. Shoebuy needs to change their policy if they want to take this approach; in the meantime, they should honor their commitment to this customer. More »
God Visits The Payless Shoe Source
Attention religious people: God has set foot among us in the form of a guy who wants free shoes and slippers from a Payless Shoe Source in Northwest Indiana.
Attention religious people: God has set foot among us in the form of a guy who wants free shoes and slippers from a Payless Shoe Source in Northwest Indiana.
happiness
Zappos Has Otherworldy Customer Service
Over at Freakonomics they're swooning over Zappos.com's excellent customer service, and indeed the post reads like some sort of shopping fantasy:My wife had ordered a pair of sandals from Zappos. When they arrived, she found that they didn't fit. She tried to order the right size, but Zappos was sold out of her size. So here's what the company offered: she could return the sandals (for free), Zappos would refund the purchase price and they'd send her a $25 coupon toward her next purchase.More »
retail
Shopping Online: More Revenue From Clothes And Shoes Than Computers
Consumers are buying more clothes, shoes, handbags and whatnot online than computers these days, a sign that online retailing has finally arrived. From the NYT:In 2006, revenue from skirts, suits and shoes reached $18.3 billion, surpassing that from PCs, printers and word-processing programs, which totaled $17.2 billion, according to a report to be released today by a major trade group.More »
shopping
Endless: Amazon Launches A New Brand
Amazon has launched a new site, Endless.com, specializing in shoes and handbags. The site has 250 brands and 15,000 styles and makes the unusual, but tempting, offer of "Free Overnight Shipping." Really? Really. More »
hype
Leave Jordan And The Wu-Tang Alone, Corporate America
"Streets are talking and apparently they want to you to stop being like Mike and drinking your Ghostface flavored Wu-Juice," says Don't Believe the Hypebeast. More »
readers
Customize Your Crocs With A Crock
How can we make Crocs more fugly? Enter Jibbitz, colored plastic gemstones you stuff in your Croc holes. More »
ipod nano
Video of iPod Nike Shoe in Action
Here's an ad explaining how the crazy hooking up an iPod nano to your Nike running shoe works. Pretty f'n cool. It seems like your nano will speak to you and tell you how far you've run, how far you have to go, how long you ran, etc. You can then redock your nano and track all your progress on the computer. More »
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