1st Place: Rogan’s
2nd Place: Macy’s
3rd Place: Kohl’s

If you need new kicks, the Chippewa Valley offers quite a few places where trained professionals can size you up and offer sound arch-related advice. While those places are nice, V1 readers appreciate a different shoe shopping strategy – head to one giant building with every type of shoe imaginable and constant buy-one-get-one-half-off sales and just go nuts. Rogan’s Shoes (3015 E. Hamilton) is a shoe lover’s nirvana, especially when they erect the giant circus tent o’ shoe deals out in the parking lot every summer. Macy’s (4800 Golf Rd.) stepped into second place this year, adding a little high-class fashion to our shoe locale list. The omnipresent Kohl’s (3711 Gateway Dr.), Wisconsin’s own one-stop department store for slick couture and stylin’ tennies, came in third. Lace ‘em up. – Eric Rasmussen

Really?: One clever person answered, “On my feet.”