Inside the Fall of International Shoe Company: Once the Largest Shoe Empire on Earth
3.4K views · Sep 4, 2026 · People & Blogs
Comments · 7
@Nancy-y8q1n · 3 weeks ago
There's no business like shoe business
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@Nancy-y8q1n · 3 weeks ago
There's something happening here there's man with a shoe company over there telling me I got to beware
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@AmericanMovement-u1d · 9 days ago (edited)
We bought those shoes, Poll Parrot, Red Goose - there used to be a machine that would give GOLDEN EGGS from the RED GOOSE! And BUSTER BROWN! It seems like they had a great strategy
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@AmericanMovement-u1d · 9 days ago (edited)
It is so bothersome to me that America's manufacturing was screwed by financial interests mainly but politics wove its way into the mox as well. America made most everything and did it well. Now it is mostly gone. You didn't have to say 'MADE IN THE USA' because most everything was - but you did have to say MADE IN JAPAN etc which at the time was joke as the stuff was so poorly made. But int the 70's Japan got its act together and ultimately became an economic engine. How about Edward Deming? The guy worked until his 90's and told FORD tha he could so them how to improve their terrible cars at the time - but they refused and off he went to Japan--- and the story changed forever!
@hotmetaleyelids · 3 weeks ago
AI SUCKS
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