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In expecting Clarks to have a pair of shoes in my daughter's size?

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Littlemissbusy · 09/05/2007 20:13

Went to Clarks after school to buy a new pair of shoes for DD2. We waited for 20 minutes (staff say "yes - we do get quite busy after school - I nearly yelled - well, perhaps if you regularly get busy after school you should consider having more than one trained member of staff available!) She's size 9.5G - fairly normal I would say. Then I find out there's no black shoes in the store in that size.
Is this Communist Russia or something? How can there be no shoes in stock, in a shoe shop????? Also, in this town, there is no where else to go to buy Clarks shoes, or any other measured / width fitting shoes etc. I do like Clarks shoes - they clearly have some great designers, and obviously the marketing has worked on me, as I think children should have properly fitted, width shoes etc - but today was outrageous!!! And I can't boycott the store, so I just needed to rant a bit!

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tortoiseSHELL · 09/05/2007 20:27

Oh shoes are a nightmare. Dd has a very high instep and trying to find a shoe that fits is almost impossible. I really need an intelligent assistant when we go, otherwise we're stuffed!

contentiouscat · 09/05/2007 20:26

I had the same thing on the weekend - in the end I said OK 1 pair of trainers bring me anything in his size (not white) they had nothing so instead of an E it was OK for him to have an F

School shoes again "anything in his size without moccasin stitching" again no Es he had Fs

I tried to buy sandals at the beginning of July and they said "oh youll be lucky the winter stock is coming in" WTF the kids are just breaking up from school for the SUMMER!!

scatterbrain · 09/05/2007 20:25

Oh you want to try having an "H" fitting child - the smaller Clarks shops don't stock them at all - the bigger ones get maybe 1 pair in every other size and they cannot/will not order them in for you anymore !

I had to defect to an independent shop miles and miles away to get Start-Rites at £38 - and they had to order them in too !!!

Tsk - I dream of a "G" fitting - I really do !

Elasticwoman · 09/05/2007 20:22

I went to Clarks on Saturday and they only had one assistant on in the whole teeming shop, so I walked out again.

There are other shoe shops - honestly.

Apatosaurus · 09/05/2007 20:21

I wanted to buy dd2 sensible winter shoes in january and oooooooooooooooh, much sucking of teeth and 'oh you'll be lucky wanting that type of shoe now...most of our winter shoes sell out in november and the sales'

but she's like 18 months old and her feet get bigger quite quicky you know. so sorry I didn't come shoe shopping with her for the next size up 3 months ago. how very lax of me.

fools

squidette · 09/05/2007 20:18

yep, unreasonable. expecting usually is. Stock errors happen, such is life

mrsmalumbas · 09/05/2007 20:17

I had that problem with mine a couple of weeks ago, nothing at all in her size, not even the cheapy sandals. Funnily enough they said the same thing but this time the excuse was it had been busy over half term.