| sgrryej | Date: Thursday, 2013-04-11, 5:59 AM | Message # 1 |
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| Grace Lemay and her husband, Richard, traveled from their dwelling in Newtown to Decrease Southampton this week to get a essential purchase: new footwear.
Not only any new footwear, mind you. Double-E width shoes, that are really hard to discover anyplace.
"No, you usually do not discover them," Grace Lemay stated. "At all."
Lemay did obtain the ideal match, even so, at Trevose Family Shoes, one of your few remaining independent shoe stores in the region.
"There were other shops I used to visit to get wide shoes, however they closed," Lemay stated as she walked out with new, white sneakers on her feet. "So here we are. I was pondering, 'OK. Someone has to keep open.'"
Lemay's comments are not lost on retailer owner Eric Castelli, who is preparing to celebrate the store's 60th anniversary in April.
"We're a dinosaur," Castelli said. "It's all about service - that's what keeps us all going. We're service-oriented. Other shops are usually not."
Founded by brothers Al and Lenny Biernbaum in 1953 largely to serve steel factory workers and parochial school students, Trevose Loved ones Footwear has endured by recognizing and capitalizing on alterations within the marketplace.
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The online world, too, has changed the way persons shop for shoes, offering low prices and comfort.
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