Running shoes no longer made to fit wide toed feet in UK

[ThunderFog]

Are my feet normal or AIBU?

I can't find a pair of proper sports trainers to put on my feet. Getting exasperated. I've been into the Sports Direct, Skechers and similar, and into scary running shops where trainers cost £££. I've ordered and returned at least six pairs now, some of which claimed to be "foot-shaped" or "barefoot" (Vivo), and some which claim to be the latest version of shoes I own, but which are different shape side by side.

My feet are 260mm long and 110mm/105mm wide across the toe. My foot has not changed shape: I have various worn-out broken mens size 8 shoes and trainers, and one pair of Clarks men size 8 shoes that I got last year, but for two years now literally zero new trainers in the UK fit my feet. Anything wide enough is an inch too long, and anything the right length I can't put my wide foot into.
How can there be so many vast shoeshops yet all the shoes are basically the same? Why have manufacturers changed the shape of the lasts?

Or are my feet really genuinely unusual and I'm being unreasonable to expect to be able to buy a pair of running shoes?

I buy Lems trainers.
they aren’t cheap but they have space for my toes.
You can get cheap foot shaped ones on amazon if you search for wide toe box

You should go a size up in sports trainers anyway. New Balance are wide anyway, and do a wide fit version in several shoes. Hoka and Brookes are pretty wide as standard too.

OP, I have a similar problem but what I learned over the years is that sizing up for me is correct. It is not so much the foot measurement but the heel to ball measurement that is important. This means that the point that bends while you stand on tip toes should be before the shoe narrows. Basically if you will have short toes you will have to get a larger size. I have followed this and gone up half a size but I can’t wear ‘slip ons’.
Google ‘ measuring with a Brannock Device heel to ball’.
I read this post with interest as I am still after reading this look for a pair of wide toed trainers.