Thread: Amazon 'Destroyed the Retail Industry Across the US'
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Old 08-15-2019, 10:46 PM   #136
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Originally Posted by lumpynose View Post
If you're tall then buying online is pretty much the only option.
I wear very wide shoes, 5E, and up until about 1970 I could buy them in every shoe store in town. Then they were gone and until a few years ago when I started having to wear diabetic shoes, which do come in wider sizes, I had to buy D width shoes, or sometimes E width if I got lucky, a size or size and a half longer than my foot size.

Now that I'm wearing diabetic shoes I can get EE width so they only have to be about half or a full size too long.

I have bought 5E house shoes a few times at Amazon. They cost a bunch but at least I can get them.

Retail stores have always catered to the average since the 1970s and the rest of us were just out of luck.

I think it's far too soon to say Amazon destroyed them. it could happen but I don't think it's likely. If it does happen it'll be because Amazon does a better job. And they do.

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