Shoe Stores
Blackwell Supply Co.
About Blackwell Supply Co.
Shoes are the one purchase where the size on the box is the least reliable number in the shop. Lasts differ between makers, feet swell over the course of a day, and a half size that works in a runner can be plainly wrong in a boot. Blackwell Supply Co. keeps its Kelowna floor at 2271 Harvey Avenue in Dilworth, a building whose address is shared by close to ninety other businesses.
Go late in the day when your feet are at their largest, take the socks you actually intend to wear, and try both shoes rather than one. Beyond that, the questions that save trouble are about stock: whether a size is out on the floor, whether it can be held, and how returns work on something that has been worn outdoors. The number to ask on is 778-313-1085.
The Kelowna calendar puts real demands on footwear. Summers are long, hot and dry, and the beaches and greenways get walked hard; winter is short and more grey and wet than deeply snowy, which argues for something waterproof rather than something arctic. The hillside neighbourhoods above the city add a steady diet of slopes on top of that. Buy for the surface you actually spend your time on and a pair will last the year.
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In the Dilworth neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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