Consumerist reader Mark has a problem: He needs some summer shoes. Simple, right? But while he was hoping to buy a pair at his local Target in Columbus, Ohio, alas, he has been greeted by a sad scene not once, but twice recently.

As he faced the desolate wasteland that is the men’s summer shoe aisle, Mark snapped a pic to forever mark the deafening silence no doubt caused by such an absence of shoes.

“This was my second trip to a Target in Columbus, Ohio to scoop up a pair of summer shoes,” he writes. “Shelf was just as sparsely stocked the first time, too… shoot!”

Poor Mark. Your feet will probably just have to be bare forever. Or until you go somewhere else/Target decides to stock up.

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