Not only do I respect the shoe, I respect the people who have worked on the shoe.
Gap (nyse: GPS - news - people ) started shoe site Piperlime, while Amazon.com (nyse: AMZN - news - people ) created Endless, geared to both shoes and handbags.
When he left L.A. Gear, few people in the shoe biz expected to see him again.
"A lot of promotions, like the two-for-one drink special at the pub and the weekend shoe sale, are events people actually want to know about, " he says.
The next zone is where the cooking gets done two parallel lines of countertop, forty-some feet long and just three shoe-lengths apart, with fifteen people pivoting in place between the stovetops and grills on the hot side and the neatly laid-out bins of fixings (sauces, garnishes, seasonings, and the like) on the cold side.
The answer is that the shoe story does not help the plight of the Iraqi people in any way.
For example, a shoe store might want to show a special offer to people who have already bought shoes from them.
As with many people with special needs, this child needed a shoe to fit over braces.
During the housing crisis, many people asserted that commercial real estate was the other shoe waiting to drop.
Would applying extra scrutiny to people with foreign-sounding names have kept would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid off a plane?
Here, it was a church of lintheads, pulpwooders and sharecroppers, shoutin' people, who said amen like they were throwing a mule shoe.
With shoes one of the hottest classifications in retailing, especially with younger people, the entire store benefits from a robust and dynamic shoe department.
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For these reasons, this latest Iraqi shoe incident is taking away focus from the actual plight of the Iraqi people and is being wrongfully applauded by many people in certain parts of the world.
They include Piperlime, an online shoe site created by Gap (nyse: GPS - news - people ) 19 months ago that offers a similar shipping and return policy as Zappos.
Young people don't model their language usage on what they hear at the shoe store.
The rules change every day and while the government insists that the bailout -- and all that comes with it -- is the lesser of two evils, the people sitting in the cafes, those trying to run a business, and the shoe shiner trying to eek out a living remain unconvinced.
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More than 160 people are to lose their jobs after a 146-year-old Dundee-based shoe retail chain failed to find a buyer for its business.
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In technology and shoe and apparel firms, there is a third owner of the brand: consumer evangelists people who think that the brand belongs to them, helping create a fashion and faddism around the product.
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Last month, discount shoe retailer DSW, a division of Retail Ventures (nyse: RVI - news - people ), said that electronic records of more than 100, 000 customers had been stolen.
Mr Cassidy cites the case of Nike, the sports-shoe giant, which recently eliminated Colorado from its list of possible sites for a new corporate head office after local people protested over the ploughing up of a scenic hilltop.
Attendees in Shanghai included a production executive at Nike (nyse: NKE - news - people )'s close-by Suzhou Sports subsidiary, which makes the rigid plastic support of its shoe's sole using Huntsman's diphenylmethane diisocyanate, or MDI.
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