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Independent footwear shop at Richmond Centre carrying dress and casual styles you will not find in the chain stores next door. A smaller, owner-run counter, so ask if your size is in the back rather than assuming what is on display is all there is.
Ask about sizes rather than assuming the shelf is everything. A small shop keeps stock in the back, and a counter run by its owner will go and look for you, which is the trade you get for a smaller floor: fewer pairs on display, more attention from whoever is working. That one habit is the difference between leaving with the right pair and leaving with nothing at all.
Independent shops inside a major mall are rarer than they used to be, and the ones that last do it by selling something the chains a few doors down do not. A footwear shop at Richmond Centre competes directly with national retailers on the same concourse, so the buying has to differ. Dress styles, casual pieces and labels that do not turn up in every mall in the country are how that works in practice.
Richmond Centre anchors the south end of the Canada Line on No. 3 Road, with Brighouse station at the door, and a large share of this city passes through it in any given month. Redevelopment has reshaped the building considerably in recent years, and the independent tenants who remain are worth paying attention to precisely because the rent up there is not sentimental. Come on a weekday if the option exists. Trying on shoes on a Saturday afternoon in that concourse takes a patience most people do not have, and footwear is the one purchase that punishes you for hurrying.
In the Brighouse neighbourhood of Richmond.
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