Toys in Clarkes' shoes [angry] - anyone else fed up with them?

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I mean, how clever is it to put a cheap bit of plastic tat into a shoe so that a child is influenced to buy the pair that may not be most comfortable? When I moaned buying school shoes this week, the assistant said I was the first person to mention anything .

I know they have to improve their image so the 'masses' see them as trendy, but I feel aggrieved that my pocket/children's feet have to suffer.

Anyone else?

My boys wanted those silly shoes with hidden cars, but I decided against them.
The woman in Clarks said "Oh, but they have been very popular, we have sold loads"
Stupid idea, especially for school shoes!

i dont care if they are popular, i will not buy them i am a shoe shop assistants nightmare.

Lady V, my DDs are always asking me to buy vanish too! The power of advertising. Maybe I can get some to help with the disappointment of not getting those shoes!

'Trust Pink' v.appropriate for you LVOC!

agree it's marketing crap but I bought a pair for dd1 the other day. The fit was good, the shoes were smart and she is having a good old play with the dolly now and hopefully will have got over it by the time school starts. She won't fiddle with it in school if I tell her not to (she's a complete jobsworth) but I figure she gets very little in the way of stuff 'off the tele' (no Bratz, no Barbies, no cheese strings, no LelliKellis etc) so I just decided she could have this one thing.

Can see it would be a problem of kids are messing about with them in school. I can already see the first newsletter home at the end of next week "It has come to our attention that children are wearing novelty 'shoes' with 'toys' inside the 'heels'..."

lol

When I was young, it was the fairy in the sole of the shoes (Clarks).

I've got wide feet so they never fitted me but I remember little sister getting a pair

Some have been put on a safety warning. You are supposed to detach the chain from the dolls.

I aso asked the assistant in clarks not to return from the storeroom with 'plastic tat in heel' shoe.

I see I'm not the only one.

Sent hubby with ds to buy non school shoes yesterday. Had a trauma getting out the house as he hates buying new shoes. Well they only had these stupid shoes with the crappy car in the heel. Hubby liked the shoe so bought it anyway - didn't register with him he had been conned by marketeers to spend an extra £5 on plastic tat.

Don't know who I was more furious with - OH or Clarks. Am going to return them and have to go through the trauma of getting DS back to another shoe shop.

Am going to avoid Clarks from now on - nothing but trouble: can't get summer shoes in July, nothing but school shoes in August (just when DD needed 1st pair..), only ever having 1 style in DS size...

ds asked for these- i said no.simple!

I quite liked the idea ..I would have really liked it as a kid.Don't understand why they did it for school shoes though...fine for muckabout shoes/trainers
dd wanted some when i bought her school shoes in Sept..but i said no and in the end Clarks had no shoes to fit her anyway.

I went to a shoe shop that doesn't stock Clarkes so that I avoided this issue completely!!!!

How funny, I was apparently the first person to have moaned in our local Clarkes too! I wonder how many other 'first people' there are out there.

Don t really see a problem TBH. DS would probably just forget toy was there after a while. Obviously would try them on and get them fitted first and if that was affected then would probably decided against them but if not then why not?

This is not a new marketing thing for Clarks though, every few years they do something, when I was a Kid it was "magic shoes" that had a little perspex window in the sole with a little gold glittery key on the other side and I had/have such narrow feet Calsrks could never fit me small child lol.
I actually don't mind these litte things TBH I loved things like that as a child and would buy them if they fitted well. (but again they never do)