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| - I felt so defeated after coming here. Here's the story of a boy, a dream, and no limited edition shoes:
I was in town from the midwest, and it was a bad weekend to be out of town. My city had the highest stock of a new limited edition shoe that was dropping on Saturday. Regardless, I went through due diligence, and called every shoe retailer in the city, and had no luck finding them ANYWHERE.
So, I walked through Fashion Show Mall, trying to see if there were any previous releases of another model in stock, and I stumble upon Shoe Palace. I totally forgot to call them! So I walk in, and ask if they have them in stock. The employee said that they had about 10 pairs, and they were going to be raffled. I was skeptical, but I had a dream.
I decided to come back the next morning before the advertised opening hour of the entire mall. I sneaked in through a side door, and ran to Shoe Palace. Oddly enough, there was nobody outside of the store. I asked the employees through a half-open store gate if they were ready for the drop, and they said that the employee lied to me! They didn't have the shoes! I don't know if they got backdoored, the employee from that morning was lying, or the one from the day before was misinformed, but I was just so done at this point. So I just stormed out of the mall, and went back to my hotel.
Golden rule: if you're running a store that stocks something that is very highly coveted, at least know if you'll have it when release day comes. Ugh.
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