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Kates Bros.
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Re: Kates Bros.
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2011, 11:21:35 AM »
When we were kids living in Hackensack (1948-1958) all of our shoes came from Kates Bros. They specialized in "scientific shoe fitting" using the Brannock measuring device. Their shoes were top quality.

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Kates Bros. shoe store probably closing
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2014, 08:48:56 AM »
   
For Hackensack shoe store that cared about feet, a sad walk toward closing

June 20, 2014, 9:20 PM    Last updated: Friday, June 20, 2014, 9:25 PM
By CHRISTOPHER MAAG
Staff Writer
The Record

HACKENSACK — Myron Chassen walked into Kates Brothers Scientific Shoe Co. carrying four pairs of loafers and a tray of lemon-flavored Danishes.

He brings pastries every time he visits, which is once a month. What was special cargo this time were those dress loafers: The store is failing, and Chassen wants to get all his customized shoe repairs and adjustments done before Kates closes forever.

“It’s very upsetting — I don’t know what I’m going to do,” said Chassen, 62, who has been a regular customer at Kates for 40 years. “It’s going to take me a while to find somebody who’s trying to do right by me, and not just trying to sell me a pair of shoes.”

After 73 years, Kates Shoes will probably close at the end of July. The store has struggled for years as customers fled the downtown for suburban malls. But owner Greg Mills clung to hopes that a downtown renaissance might turn the business around.

Mills is still open to offers, especially from a podiatrist or orthopedist looking to open a new office in a specialty shoe store. But after many failed tries to find a buyer, Mills believes he will simply walk away, closing one of the few stores left in North Jersey where customers can buy shoes custom-tailored for their feet.

Continue: http://www.northjersey.com/news/for-hackensack-shoe-store-that-cared-about-feet-a-sad-walk-toward-closing-1.1039211?page=all
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Re: Kates Bros.
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2014, 09:52:07 PM »
With all the activity in terms of upcoming big projects, why are they giving up on Main Street NOW ?

And here's a really radical idea.  If you are going to give up, why don't you sell the store to your employees for $1, and let them run the business.  Let them have it.  Right now the store has to pay the employees AND generate enough profit to make it worthwhile to keep it open. If it is employee-owned, the bar is set lower.  It just has to generate enough revenue to pay the employees their salaries.

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Re: Kates Bros.
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2014, 12:37:05 PM »
Buyer for Kates shoes: Retired businessman gives 73-year-old Hackensack store a future
September 9, 2014    Last updated: Tuesday, September 9, 2014, 9:09 AM
By JOAN VERDON
STAFF WRITER
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Kates Bros. shoe store employees Antonio Rizzo, left, and manager David Figueras, will remain with the company.
Tariq Zehawi/staff photographer


Joseph LaPaglia has always been drawn to companies that have stood the test of time. His first job was working for an accounting firm that traces its history back to mid-19th-century London. He's been an executive at an office supplies company that dates back to the 17th-century pencil makers of Nuremberg, and president of a flag-manufacturing company that started before the Civil War. Now, the 70-year-old retiree and former mayor of Woodcliff Lake is taking on the challenge of revitalizing the 73-year-old Kates Bros. shoe store in downtown Hackensack.

http://www.northjersey.com/news/business/buyer-for-kates-shoe-store-1.1083603
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