The Footwear Retailer
The Footwear Retailer Podcast is for independent shoe store owners and leaders who want a better business and a better life.
Hosted by Pete Mohr, owner of two Shoetopia stores in Canada, this show shares practical strategies, honest conversations, and real-world insights on leadership, inventory, team growth, profitability, and long-term success.
Proudly sponsored by the National Shoe Retailers Association, the podcast helps footwear retailers move from daily chaos to greater clarity, confidence, and freedom.
The Footwear Retailer
Latest Episodes
115 Years, 73 Stores, Built on Owners: How Brown’s Shoe Fit Co. Turns Employees Into Store Owners
Brown’s Shoe Fit Co. has been around for 115 years and runs 73 stores in 12 states — and not one of them is corporately owned. In this episode, host Pete Mohr sits down with Cammie McKenzie, the company’s President, to unpack how a cooperative ...
Maurice Breton: 30 Years Building Comfort One Shoes into a High-Performance Store
Hall of Fame retailer Maurice Breton, founder of Comfort One Shoes, shares the training system, accountability and selling standards behind his stores, what he'd do differently, and where independent footwear retail is headed....
Ransomware Hit a 137-Year-Old Shoe Store: Schuler Shoes' $250,000 Lesson
Mike Schuler on the ransomware attack that hit Schuler Shoes, the recovery, and the cybersecurity basics every independent retailer should have in place. Pete Mohr sits down with Mike Schuler, fourth-generation owner of Schuler Shoes, a family-...
AI for Footwear Retailers: How Mar-Lou Shoes Uses It to Buy and Market (Dan Ungar)
Dan Ungar of Mar-Lou Shoes on using AI for buying decisions, inventory analysis and marketing in a family shoe store. Mar-Lou is a family-owned footwear store in Lyndhurst, Ohio founded by Dan's parents in 1958, and this conversation moves past...
Jim Bosco: 47 Years Building Bosco & Co. and Cougar Shoes
Jim Bosco, founder of Bosco & Co., on the pillow boot, the chance meeting in Italy and five decades of building Canadian footwear brands including Cougar.Pete Mohr sits down with Jim Bosco, Founder and President of Bosco & Co., ...
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