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Hello and welcome to Feature Tech Podcast. I'm your host Juliet Lamar and I have with us today Matthew how our work he is the

director of business development at shoesize.me welcome Matthew

thank you very very much for having me.

Absolutely, absolutely.

So I'm interested.

What is Shoesize.me?

Essentially, well we've been around for since 2012 and we are the only footwear specific solution on the market for

helping retailers and brands to kind of take control of the chaos that is footwear sizing or apparel and footwear

sizing with footwear specific. But yeah, it's a chaotic problem, it's an industry wide issue and

this is essentially the the our goal is to

cure this problem. Yeah it's so funny I had no idea that this was this was such a

large problem. Can you go into detail a little bit about you know what the issues are what are the challenges that are that are in this?

Absolutely yeah so I mean it stems from the fact that there is no industry standards in sizing so So, you know, every brand has their own sizing and

you know, because of the lack of an industry standard and the lack of data available

to set brands and retailers

everyone's kind of working off guesswork and so it's very difficult to determine what is you know

a UK or a US 8 or a 9 because you have nothing to benchmark against. So if you're launching a

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