# The way new shoes come laced in the box

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-new-shoes-come-laced-in-the-box/726771>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 2, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-new-shoes-come-laced-in-the-box/726771 "2015-08-02T01:22:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-new-shoes-come-laced-in-the-box/726771/21 "2015-08-19T23:20:33Z")

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> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#):
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> Because management at the factory would have to teach the lacing gnomes two different schemes, which would clearly violate the union contract. In addition, it would require open communication with the Vogon poets in Logistics, and no one wants that.

ISTM that they should do 'em the way that consumers prefer, and inconvenience the shoe clerks with the job of re-doing the relative handful of laced shoes they put in the displays, which have to be about 0.0001% of all laced shoes sold.

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