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Is Black Friday the cheapest day to buy stuff? After investigating the two largest markets - clothing and tech - the answer is a firm no. In this pricing analysis study, we analysed 1.4 million prices of 4,024 trainers from more than 200 retailers over the past 3 years to understand the relationship between prices on Black Friday and the rest of the year. We also analysed one of the 5 most popular products from 3 different tech categories on Amazon to understand if the f[…]

The analysis below is based not on our lab reviews, but on expert and user reviews from other sites. To learn more about how we lab test shoes, see our methodology page here, which explains in detail how every test is conducted.   Are expensive workout shoes worth it? This study analysed 323,776 reviews of 336 workout shoes from 20 different brands. The analysis focused on the pricing, rating, and savings for shoes across the entire category as well as individual brands.[…]

The political divide is seemingly greater than ever. Although we are all citizens of the same country, there are clearly differences in the people that fall on both sides of the aisle. Which begs the question: how does one’s political affiliation impact their online shoe shopping behaviour?  To answer that question, we enlisted the help of customers at RunRepeat.  We conducted a survey where customers were asked to self-identify their political affiliation. We gathered 3[…]

Put your money away! As the price of a pair of trainers goes up, user satisfaction does not increase with it. To the contrary, RunRepeat data suggests that shoppers are more satisfied with cheaper trainers than they are with expensive trainers. After analysing 185,959 reviews of the 1,000 most popular pairs of trainers in the RunRepeat database, regression analysis shows that there is no statistical correlation between the price of trainers and how highly it is rated by[…]

When you visit the landing page for the Everland Tread Trainer on the Everlane website you are greeted by a bold claim: “A new kind of sneaker brand. On the path to zero impact. The mission: Make the world’s lowest-impact trainers. Make them to last. Make them carbon neutral. And never stop pushing to make them better.” The first step on this journey is The Trainer. They “started with full-grain leather produced at a gold-certified tannery, then cut the virgin plastic we[…]

The threat from climate change is greater than ever. Recently a number of sustainable trainers have entered the market. But does anyone actually know what environmental impact their trainers have? It turns out that if the sneaker industry was a country, it would be the 17th largest polluter each year. That raises one question in particular: how much do these 'eco-trainers' actually reduce carbon emissions by? Well, not as much as you might hope. Eco-trainers are not goin[…]

Why do we wear shoes? I mean, it isn’t like cavemen used to camp outside for 2-3 days to cop the freshest pair of shoes from the Air Jordan Hunter Gatherer collection. Yet, they seemed to have done alright fighting to survive day in and day out. Nowadays everyone always has a pair of shoes on unless they are swimming or showering. Hell, I have never even seen my own dad’s feet (true story). But why is that? Do shoes improve our physical capabilities in sports or are they[…]