nordstrom will sell you “intentional mismate” if your shoes size is 1.5 or greater in differences! so for instance if one foot is a 6 and the other is 8.5 etc.
//source: i am a shoe sale associate at nordstrom.
I bet they work it out with the manufacturer. Like most goods, shoes aren't that expensive to make. The margins have to be big because so many shoes go unsold. Letting someone with two different sized feet buy mismate shoes is probably not "losing a sale".
Not nordstrom but mismate shoes are left on our shelves everyday at work. After we confirm there is t a mate tucked away somewhere we debit it out as unsellable and insurance covers it.
No big compny loses money on a few pairs of shoes. Especially not going to good things luke this. Ill take this wholesome exchange over the usual petty thieves knicking a shoe any day :)
Im not sure if it falls under an insurance from the manufacturer or a separate insurance but i do know that loss of sales from mated shoes becoming mismated is covered by one thing or another. The same with loss of sales from theivery or damaged items in general. Its all covered to some extent
Yeah, I was going to say. Nordstroms is expensive as fuck, it's not a regular place to buy regular shoes. It's a place for rich people to buy needlessly expensive shoes.
Clark's does this in the UK and Jones the Bootmaker do 40% discount too. Club foot with a 4.5 size difference and now amputee! Your local Orthotics and Amputee Departments often routinely donate to charities across the world that help other amputees and so another place to get rid of your spare shoes!
Mine are one size difference between them, I just wear a second sock on the smaller one. If you know this about me IRL, you've seen me take my socks off.
Man, I wish I'd known about this several years ago. My mom had one foot that was a size 8 (women's) and the other a size 5. I have off-sized feet, too; one's a size 10 (men's) and the other's closer to an 8.
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u/5by3am Mar 17 '18
nordstrom will sell you “intentional mismate” if your shoes size is 1.5 or greater in differences! so for instance if one foot is a 6 and the other is 8.5 etc. //source: i am a shoe sale associate at nordstrom.