Shiekh Shoes

+ Super cute shoes
± Not always of the highest quality and are likely to break/​wear out quickly although one of my favorite pairs I got years ago and they are still doing just fine.
+ Relatively cheap. Took advantage of Xmas deals today and got 4 pairs of shoes for about $ 100.
— I don’t dig the hip-​hop/​skater vibe of the store.
— Seems like a girly store set up for boys. Maybe that’s just my personal bias.
— No good foot mirrors. Come on, I gotta see how cute I look in my new kicks.
+ Helpful and attentive staff, though they seemed to be overwhelmed today with Christmas shoppers.

Ok, I have a dark secret to admit. I am a shoe fiend. Call it what you want, I just like shoes. I have so many that I rarely wear any out because I am always switching them up. I think the last pair I actually killed though use was back in 94. The most deadly action any of my shoes might have seen is the occasional California earthquake.
Deep dark secret out of the way, I was on the hunt for a pair of shoes a few days ago for a self b-​day present. A current shoe trend happening in the industry is to release NOS (New Old Stock), or re-​issues of old style shoes. Well, I wanted some Jordan’s re-​issues that were out. So out on my hunt I ended up at this store.
This place is a joke. Firstly you ears are assaulted by music. I could care less if they are playing Rap music, hell it could be metal, ska, pigprocreatingbanjo music; I really don’t care, But there is no reason in the world to turn the volume on the stereo up to 11 (eh? eh? Spinal Tap anyone?). It is so loud in there I swear you would think that deaf people owned the place and were trying to get some sort of sick revenge.
Let’s talk about the smell next. Here is a hint if you own a business. If it smells like onions inside of your store, and your not cooking hamburgers, make your employees take showers. Clean the store, and get the stink out. Seriously, there is no reason for a shoe store to smell foul. You would think it was a shoe store that dealt only with highly used used shoes.
Ok, first two rants down, now for my Coup de Grâce. Remember I said I was looking to buy some reissued Jordan’s? These shoes are not cheap at all (for guys anyways), They come in something over a hundred dollars. That being said, I don’t think many people are trying to spend that much money on shoes in the current economic environment; so, if you had a shoe store and someone was interested in buying these shoes, you would think you would go out of your way to sell them right?
Well let’s talk about the employee that came to help me. I am not sure if this guy was disgruntled or so high that he thought he was buying the shoes and I was the one selling them to him. For every question I had for him, he had one for me about the shoes. Finally I couldn’t take anymore of this dimwit so I just asked, «Do you have these shoes in eleven and a half?» His response was, «I don’t think so», then he promptly just empty eye stared at me. I let silence fill a space of something like five or ten seconds then proceeded to ask, «You think you don’t or know you don’t?», again I was rewarded with a «I don’t think we do.» At this point I just left.
I went next door and bought the shoes right after at Footlocker.
If I would have wadded my money up like a baseball and said catch, these idiots would have probably have turned 180 degrees and run into a wall or something. This place goes out of the way to not make money. Stupidity and ignorance is the only abundant resource you will find here.
Trust me. Stay clear of this place. You don’t wind up deaf and stuck with body odor onion scented shoes anyways.