One of the world’s biggest companies is trying to shake up a business dominated for decades by a Central New York firm. Nike is rolling out an app, Nike Fit, that will allow customers shopping online ...

It's a back-to-school tradition: a visit to the neighborhood shoe store, where employees pull out a well-worn metal foot measuring tool from under a seat to measure children's feet, fit them with the ...

Nike Inc.’s new shoe-sizing technology doesn’t worry the company that’s been measuring feet for 92 years. Brannock Device Co. manufactures the ubiquitous shoe-store contraption that you’ve almost ...

It’s a back-to-school tradition: a visit to the neighborhood shoe store, where employees pull out a well-worn metal foot measuring tool from under a seat to measure children’s feet, fit them with the ...

LIVERPOOL, N.Y.—Many have tried, but no one has ever come up with a more elegantly simple way to measure the human foot than Charles Brannock, inventor of that ubiquitous metal gadget found in shoe ...

Look at a straw. An ordinary, common drinking straw. Have you ever wondered who came up with the idea for a straw? How the straw went from idea to invention to everyday item? Well, a program at the ...

What do shoe trees do? Using a wooden shoe tree is the easiest way to increase the life expectancy of a good pair of shoes. The devices maintain the shoes' shape because they mimic the last -- a ...