# Payless Shoes - closing all 2100 US stores **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/payless-shoes-closing-all-2100-us-stores/829669 "2019-02-16T14:50:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/payless-shoes-closing-all-2100-us-stores/829669/61 "2019-02-19T02:35:52Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > That is sad. But I’m probably part of the problem. I buy all my clothes/shoes online. I know my size, and hate, hate hate hate ‘shopping’. Very worth it to me to get the occasional dud. I’m part of the problem as well, but for a different reason - I go to shoe company retailers to get shoes. I can’t remember when, or even if, I have bought shoes from somewhere other than a Red Wing store or a G.H. Bass or Nike factory outlet. I don’t buy shoes (or pants) online, as I don’t really want to go through the hassle of returning them if they don’t fit. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/payless-shoes-closing-all-2100-us-stores/829669/62 "2019-02-19T03:07:14Z")
My wife and I are both bummed about this because Payless (or Payles’s as I call it) is the only place that consistently carries our sizes, no special order required. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/payless-shoes-closing-all-2100-us-stores/829669/63 "2019-02-19T06:12:00Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > Our Goodwill always has a decent variety of new shoes still in the boxes. I don’t know how they come across them but I got some new Converse for 14 dollars a few months ago. I’m guessing they were returns, but they still had tags and the bottoms looked perfectly clean so it was a great deal to me. A big source of stuff for my local charity shops is items which are off-spec because of some little thing nobody who doesn’t work in quality control would notice (OMG there is a tiny notch on the bottom!) and batch fillers (sales are for 543 items but the machine works in bunches of 10). Direct from the factory. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/payless-shoes-closing-all-2100-us-stores/829669/64 "2019-02-19T15:30:58Z")
> [@Royal\_Nonesutch](#): > > I am convinced, to the core of my soul (and soles) that this is actually one of the greatest, most essential Secrets of a Long, Happy Life. > > I would seriously rather rotate between 3 pairs of cheap, Chinese sweatshop labor, dollar store reject shoes than have to wear the same $800 pair of custom fitted, handcrafted Italian orthopedic walking loafers day after day after day, no contest. Hahaha! Well said! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/payless-shoes-closing-all-2100-us-stores/829669/65 "2019-02-25T19:02:47Z")
Payless used to be my go-to location for buying shoes. But that obnoxious doorbell chime that goes off whenever anyone in the store, you know, moves so much as a muscle finally drove me to the brink, and I moved on. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/payless-shoes-closing-all-2100-us-stores/829669/66 "2019-02-25T21:19:55Z")
Well, we just did our part - Got 8 pairs of shoes for various children at a nice discount. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/payless-shoes-closing-all-2100-us-stores/829669.md?page=3)