As products have gotten less expensive and more disposable, many traditional repair industries have withered away. Against all odds, shoe repair has retained a tenuous foothold. More than 50 ...

We talked to two shoe artisans who have not only survived but at times have more business than they can handle: Greg Martens of Olde Town Cobbler in Wauwatosa and Bruce Cziske of Shoe Healers in ...

WANT. >> AMERICAN WORKERS SPEND AN AVERAGE OF 57% OF THE WORKDAY STANDING OR WALKING ACCORDING TO A 2020 BUREAU OF LABOR REPORT. WHAT BETTER BODY PART TO SPLURGE ON IT THAT HARD-WORKING FEET? >> A ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --Winter is sloppy and hard on our clothes -- especially shoes. Salt beats up on leather, as soles break or come apart. So, do you replace your shoes or fix them? WCCO went to three ...

To walk into Al's Shoe Service at the Mount Prospect Metra station is to step back in time. The walls remind customers and visitors of the rich history of a business that began when Al DeAngelo opened ...

Walk into almost any shoe repair store and it’s like stepping back in time with the smells of polish, glue and leather, and shelves of worn shoes that call to mind a cobbler shop from another century.

To many young people today, a cobbler is something you have for dessert, says Lee Vaccaro. And therein lies the problem. "Not only are fewer people becoming cobblers," he says, "but younger people don ...

MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. (WLS) -- Al's Shoe Repair in Mount Prospect has been in business for more than eight decades, but the pandemic almost forced it to shut down until customers and strangers stepped ...

What: Extreme Shoe Service, a new shoe-repair shop. Where: 1135 N. Lincoln Ave., Unit 1, Loveland. Hours: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m ...

DULUTH, Minn.—For the first time in decades, the number of shoe repair shops in Duluth has increased. Now there are two. National observers say shoe repair—long a declining industry—has seen a ...