Duluth Holdings (DLTH)

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They did.

There are no equivalent brick and mortar competitors to DSW. No retailer seems to have 1/3rd of their in-store availability. Online is another story. Amazon bought Zappos in 2009. Zappos was the only real successful online-only shoe retailer. I don't hear about people buying shoes from Zappos anymore but I used too. Several issues, shoe sizing is all over the map, the doctored stock photos vs in person are usually not equivalent, and then the final and most important factor... are they comfortable? Everyone I know has been burned by an online shoe buy. These companies always have to eat the shipping on the return and eat it they do.

Zappos and DSW are not redundant though, they seem to have different focuses on what they carry.