Perhaps the only good thing to be seen on the shop floor this season is that predominantly only men with no style wear trainers when not doing sport. I will ignore the classic Geox type low profile here I refer to your thick blown sole classic Nike or Adidas. Gone are the days when every other customer wore trainers.

Then of course they could not wear shoes without saying "they feel hard" or "no they will not be comfortable". For the moment it seems that the UK footwear buyer has grown up. The problem now is that you have to stop yourself from treating trainer guy with a level of service he may not deserve. In short you feel he looks stupid like some kind of eighties throw back. Take pity on him he needs some pushing even if he ends up in a boat shoe it is a start. He needs to put away childish things and move on make the sale and bite the bullet. Who knows.