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So perhaps holiday shoppers aren't exactly the target demographic Amazon had in mind here. You have to want to buy shoes and have some sense of what the shoes you're hunting for might look like. Unless instructed to a T by our significant others, a lot of us men wouldn't have any clue what to do with this tool, and our dames might go without stylish foot-wraps despite Amazon's best efforts.
That doesn't mean it's a pointless service, though. The retailer is coming at the shopping experience from a whole new angle here, much as Google
I do hope this is just an experiment on Amazon's part. While you can't convince me to get excited about the general shape of a shoe, Amazon also sells athletic equipment, computer components, car parts, and home entertainment electronics, at least some of which could be usefully defined by their visual appearance.
Adding that option is an attempt by Amazon to copy the visceral shopping experience you'd get from walking into a Best Buy
Would you shop at Amazon more often if everything was categorized by shape and size? More importantly do you think other formerly Luddite shoppers would? Discuss in the comments box below.