..u shud also consider the brand and the quality of your shoes, the style and everything that makes it more wearable. alone, the research and development for this specific product will cost brand names such as nike and adidas, millions of dollars, and they would not care and would not give a damn for this product, coz they know, they'll lose more sales, if people will acquire this concept, just think about this, in US alone, most people buy shoes 5-6 times a year, and if this product will be launch, they'll lose a lot of volume in sales. Your idea is very bright, but in reality, no shoe company will offer such product. I hope, an independent or a new competitor will give consideration about this product, or probably a hardware for an upgrade. Good insights.. I love ur shoes.. BETTER TELL THE DWARVES ABOUT THIS!! hahahahahaha.. FIX UR LIFE!!! FIX UR LIFE!!

I haven't purchased shoes in a long time. I have about 12 pair, and they don't wear out for a long time. Only kids have to purchase shoes so frequently.

I recommend shopping at thrift stores if kids shoes are really stretching a person's finances. There are lots of almost-new shoes there. Kids only wear them for a few months, sometimes.

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you now what you are ignorant!!!!! you cant see why i want to invent this product!!!! it would help alot of people especially those who don't have enough money for thier family to have a good food on their table!!!! with this invention people can use the money that they save in more important things!!! like food!!!!

having a shoe that grows with your feet is a good concept. but wouldnt you think that the people who would sell this would sell it for a greater price? having a shoe that does what you want it to do will only increase prices because people will only have to buy one pair for their whole life time

Shoes needn't be so expensive. My employer paid $130 for my "safety" work shoes, but in recent years I have bought shoes for myself, new, for as cheap as $5/pair, because they were "last season's" model- that is, "out of style," although they were only a few months old. It costs more to ship the "out of style" models back to the manufacturer than they are worth, so shoes are sold really cheap at clearance sales. (Right now I have about 8 pairs of shoes, I rotate wearing them so I never wear the same shoes two days in a row. The most expensive pair cost me $27, marked down from $90, the cheapest about $9, marked down from $47).To be sure I get quality shoes, I make sure they have 100% genuine leather uppers, and I inspect the construction methods to make sure they are soundly designed and manufactured. Your time and efforts might be better spent by developing a consistent set of quality standards for shoes, rather than trying to invent an expensive product with a very limited market, or devising a plan to distribute those out-of-style shoes to needy families. I would suggest contacting a local church or charity to see what kinds of clothing assistance programs they have, and see if local merchants are willing to donate goods to them.

Actually it really is a good idea. The only way that I could see that happening is that you would need to dabble in the biological engineering field. Just mentioning the word grow is good indication that you're going to have to have control of sometype of living orgnism. Even if you were to produce this product somehow, you still would probably have to have it approved by the goverment. Great idea.

I don't think you would want to make them "grow" in the biological sense. That would be extremely hard to engineer and would certainly make them very expensive. Rather, you should just make them expandable. Making the uppers expand wouldn't really be very hard. You could just put laces in some of the places that shoes normally have seams. Expanding the sole would be a bigger problem.

This product would only be useful for children. As an adult, my feet don't grow anymore.