and another thing.....

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If getting some advice on shoes from the website, it starts off really well. foot type blah blah, so you can pretty much work out which TYPE of shoes you'd be looking at. Next you go to the detailed section on each shoe, and its sorted by manufacturer. Why? So if I want a cushioned shoe what am I supposed to do - go through each manufacturer and look up that type. Surely it makes sense to group them by type, showing in each section whichever manufacturer is appropriate? If anyone agrees can you say so here - perhaps they might read it and change it for the benefit of people who haven't already gone out and bought their new shoes.

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Dunno, Kermit - I just go to the running shop and try on all the shoes until I find the one I like best. Haven't had a bad'un yet.

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I don't think it would be difficult to make it so that you can search the shoe database by either manufacturer, type of shoe, etc. Might make it easier but could be a lot of work for the people who run the website...

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I'm with V-rap on this one - nothing beats trying the shoes on and taking them for a test-run.

Happy Shambling!

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Try "Running Fitness" magazine, its shoe section is very good sorted by shoe type rather than manufacturer.

Trogs

It's a while since I looked at the shoe finder section on the site but I seem to remember a find the right shoe section where you answered a series of basic questions about your requirements and it provided a list of possible matches.

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You need to try them on! I went though one of those questionaire things and the upshot was that a pair of Grid Hurricanes 5 were going to make me run like the proverbial wind. Tried them on in the shop and they were very uncomfortable on me - the Grid Omni's however were absolutely perfect - the best pair of shoes that I have ever run in!

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Well obviously you need to try them on, and go to a specialist running store, and make sure they're comfortable and blah blah blah etc etc etc.

But it seems to me you have two options:
a) change the website so it performs a least some small function, indicating a couple of suggestions that you might like to look at in store or;
b) bin the section, and replace it by - "You need to try them on!"

Oh, forget it, it was just a thought for the website, no big deal.