After decades of business, Gotskind’s Children’s Shoes & Clothing is still keeping it old school. When customers walk in, they’re met with a hello and an earnest smile from co-owner Andrea Gotskind ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — It was a tough time, back on March 24. When The Shoe Fits had just closed its four stores, and laid off nearly 25 employees. "We had to figure out what our best moves were to be," ...

Most of the time, sports podiatrist Rob Conenello, D.P.M., sees patients in his offices in Orangeburg, N.Y. There, he can take X-rays, relieve pain with treatments like injections and shockwave ...

Mar 7, 2021 Mar 7, 2021 Updated Apr 11, 2022 A lot has happened since Gregg Palmer opened the Grand Junction location of Brown’s Shoe Fit Company, 425 Main St., in 1980. Retail outlets like Palmer’s ...

Nike is launching Nike Fit in its app and in stores this summer. The sneaker maker is trying to tackle the issue it believes far too many shoppers have — wearing the wrong size shoe. BEAVERTON, Ore. — ...

Despite retailers’ repeated attempts to solve the footwear fitting challenge online, many still have high return rates of 30 to 40 percent. The reality is customers typically try on five or more pairs ...

Walk by any suburban front porch or urban apartment lobby, and there’s a good chance the piled-high shipping boxes contain lots of footwear—both inbound purchases ordered in extra sizes for home ...

Search the web and you’ll find all kinds of articles on how a work boot should fit and why it is important to both your employees and your company. While all of it has some truth, everybody gives you ...

In 1927, Charles Brannock, the son of a local shoe company owner in Syracuse, N.Y., invented the Brannock Device. The steel measurement tool with five scales has been the most effective way in the U.S ...

There's a good chance you're wearing the wrong size shoe right now, according to recent studies. Nike is trying to fix that. La Trobe University found in 2018 that between 63 and 72 percent of study ...

As the saying goes, “if the shoe fits… wear it” But, sometimes it’s hard to tell exactly how your shoes should fit. For example, a size 9 in one brand might not be the exact same size in another brand ...

As retailers and brands seek virtual fitting tools, Volumental, a shoe-fitting technology company, has introduced its self-service foot scanners that use AI to measure shoppers’ feet and provide shoe ...