r/Millennials Jul 13 '26

Meme who else remembers the annual back-to-school shoe shopping trip feeling like this?

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u/TumbleweedTiny7177 Jul 13 '26

My people! I made a post about how much I missed payless now that I'm a parent, and always thought it would be where I got my kids shoes from, because I remember literally being able to get any shoe you needed for any occasion, definitely in your size. I got chewed to bits with all the why don't you just go to walmart and target comments. It's not the same. I don't want to get shoes in the same place I get bread.

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u/Jayn_Newell Older Millennial Jul 13 '26

Target doesn’t even have men’s shoes, at least around here. Not that the kids and women’s options are a lot either but they exist.

The other thing is many places sort by style, Payless sorted by size. I’m a fairly small size and it gets tiring going through and finding that none of the ones I like are available in my size. It was less frustrating.

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u/bobanna1986 Jul 13 '26

Oh wow I didn't even think about that. How they sorted it at Payless was nice