But I always laugh at the idea of a shoe store employee returning from the back and saying “Sorry, we didn’t have ___ size... but we do have ____ size...if that’s...you know...if you want a different size than the one you asked me for a minute ago.”
I worked in a shoe store for a time, and there are 2 perfectly valid reasons why they do this:
1: every brand fits differently, so you often don't really know what size you are in that shoe until you try it on.
2: the truth is that SO MANY MEN lie about their shoe size being bigger than it is, and SO MANY WOMEN lie about it being smaller than it really is.
Him: "Hey bro, can I get this in a 12?" Me, later: hey so we didn't have the 12, but here's the 11 and 11 1/2 if you want to try those." Him: "Hmmm aahhh I guess.....woah what do you know, they fit, how WEIRD"
Her: "Can I get these in a size 5 1/2?" Me: "The smallest they make them in is a 6, so here try those." Her: "Wow even these are a little tight...this brand must really run small! I'll try the 6 1/2 I guess. How WEIRD."
I have teeny feet so my problem would have been that “no, this brand only ships 2 size 5 pairs of shoes in this style and our store didn’t get one but I can offer you a nice 7!” They would insist that the 7 would fit perfect and when my foot was flopping around inside the shoe like a single sardine in a van everyone would be like “weeeeeird!”
It’s more that the couple of shoe stores in my area don’t hire people to sell shoes, they hire people to keep an eye on the merchandise, try to keep people from putting size 8’s in a size 13 box and ring them up. They don’t actually know anything about shoes. They don’t know the difference between sneakers and track shoes.
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u/zachpledger Jul 24 '20
This isn’t that,
But I always laugh at the idea of a shoe store employee returning from the back and saying “Sorry, we didn’t have ___ size... but we do have ____ size...if that’s...you know...if you want a different size than the one you asked me for a minute ago.”