Shoe Show

{{Short description|American shoe store}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Shoe Show Inc.

| image = Shoe Dept. Encore Southern Park Mall.jpg

| image_caption = A modern Shoe Dept. Encore store format. Opened 2013. Located inside Southern Park Mall, Boardman, Ohio.

| type = Private

| founder = Robert Bright Tucker

| area_served = United States

| industry = Retail

| products = Footwear

| divisions = The Shoe Dept.
Burlington Shoes
The Shoe Dept. Encore
Shoebilee!

| key_people = Lisa Tucker(CEO)

| foundation = {{Start date and age|1960|p=y}} in Kannapolis, North Carolina, U.S.

| location_city = Concord, North Carolina

| location_country = U.S.

| locations = over 1200

| revenue = $6.2 billionSchneider-Levy, Barbara. [https://footwearnews.com/2020/business/retail/shoe-show-1-million-shoes-60-year-anniversary-1202924940/ "This Billion-Dollar Retailer Sells 1 Million Pairs of Shoes a Week — Here’s How it Became Successful"], Footwear News, February 17, 2020.

}}

Shoe Show, Inc. is an American footwear retailer based in Concord, North Carolina. It operates shoe stores throughout the United States under the brands Shoe Show, Shoe Dept., Shoe Dept. Encore, Shoebilee!, Burlington Shoes, and Shoe Show Mega.

The company was founded in 1960 by Robert B. Tucker{{cite web |title=Shoe Show mulls Kannapolis expansion |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2006/10/23/daily36.html |work=Charlotte Business Journal |date=October 25, 2006 |accessdate=December 24, 2010}} and has more than 1150 locations.{{cite web|url=https://www.shoeshow.com/about|title=Company info|last=|first=|date=|publisher=|work=Shoe Show.com|accessdate=July 28, 2016}} It acquired Burlington Shoes in 1986, Altier Shoes in 1993{{cite news |title=Business Briefs |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=flpCAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-aoMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6711,3215495&dq=shoe-show+robert-tucker&hl=en |newspaper=Middlesboro Daily News |date=February 29, 1996 |accessdate=December 24, 2010}} and Shoebilee! in 2002.{{cite news |title=Shoe Show acquires 44 Shoebilee stores |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QkwcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LloEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6622,6499192&dq=shoe-show+robert-tucker&hl=en |newspaper=The Victoria Advocate |date=February 27, 2002 |accessdate=2019-09-22}}{{dead link|date=September 2019}} In the early 2000s, the company began opening Shoe Dept. Encore stores, which are larger than regular Shoe Dept. stores.{{cite web |title=National retailer to open new store in Honey Creek Mall |author=Arthur E. Foulkes |url=http://tribstar.com/business/x546426312/National-retailer-to-open-new-store-in-Honey-Creek-Mall |work=TribStar.com |date=December 29, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318004455/http://tribstar.com/business/x546426312/National-retailer-to-open-new-store-in-Honey-Creek-Mall |archive-date=2012-03-18 |url-status=dead |accessdate=2019-09-22}}

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