Shopping on-line needs to be thought of in a different way.
As we have travelled to another part of the UK, Glasgow to be honest, one of the greenest places in the country in terms of power generation…
Preciously what, may I ask, has that to do with on-line shopping, please?
Oh, sorry, got distracted by the 20 or so wind turbines I can see spinning on the horizon as I write this…
Can we get back to the point, please?
Oh, yes, of course. I bought shoes. Always a difficult thing to do back home, but I thought there might be a chance of finding some that fitted here in Scotland.
Go on then, did you?
Yes, and having learnt my lesson from the past, I bought in bulk. But having got the boxes back to my hotel room, I was reminded why I don’t buy shoes on-line and really why that should be possible.
The boots and shoes I bught were American size 7 ½ and European size 39. That’s somewhere between a UK 5 ½ and 6 in shoe sizes.
What I should be able to do is give a vendor my foot length, the circumference of my widest part, and ideally, how far from my toe and heel that widest part is. You can do this in centimetres, which are the same where-ever you are in the world.
It would then be really easy to say whether a shoe was going to fit and be comfortable.
There are few other clothes that can be as easily achieved.
Yet, I have not seen any vendor do this. Why is that?
Posted: August 9th, 2025 under 42.