Shoe Stores
Softy's Shoes & Comfort
About Softy's Shoes & Comfort
Comfort is a word footwear uses loosely, and the only test that counts happens with the shoe on your own foot. Softy's Shoes & Comfort trades at 215 Main St, in the heart of the Penticton commercial core, a short walk back from the Okanagan Lake beaches at the north end of the city.
Shops that put comfort in the name are usually pointing at a particular kind of work. That tends to mean paying attention to width as well as length, to depth in the toe box, to whether a shoe will take a custom insert, and to what happens to a foot that spends nine hours standing on a hard floor. It can also mean stocking sizes the general chains skip at both ends of the range. Ranges differ enormously between one shop and the next, and a store that has exactly what one customer needs may hold nothing at all for the next one through the door, so it is sensible to describe the problem over the phone first.
A downtown address makes this an easy errand to fold into something else. Main Street carries most of the city core, parking is far less of an ordeal than in a bigger centre, and the beach is close enough that a fitting can be sandwiched between other stops on the same afternoon. Anyone coming in from Oliver, Osoyoos or Keremeos, as a good many shoppers do, will find the whole core walkable once the car is left somewhere.
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