when I lived in the UK there were shoe repairmen everywhere, they were great, and if the repair was easy they wouldn’t even charge me.
in the States I haven’t seen a single one
Gone are they days were people get things repaired, especially the “simple things” like getting a good leather shoes sole replaced, or getting a couch redone. Though planned obsolescence plays a role in this as well.
It also means these services are more expensive as a result.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ledivin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fast fashion ain’t just for fabrics baybeeeee
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sad, ain’t it? I repair all kinds of stuff. Have a 50" TV that only needs a new board when I can afford it. The 55" on my wall needed 2 new capacitors, $8 on eBay.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
There’s a shoe repair shop in my town. People absolutely do get simple things repaired what you can’t get repaired are things like TVs anymore.
But things don’t break like they used to, it used to be that a component would fail and you could just replace that broken component but everything’s integrated these days so if one thing goes down the whole thing is dead.
laranis@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Shout out to Bosch… I have a 10-year old dishwasher from them and the drain pump stopped working. It was so easy to replace and readily available. I was actually happy to have it break, all told.
A lot of enshitification has happened in the last decade so no idea if their products are still like that, but when the time comes to get a new one I’ll certainly be giving them my first look.
tdawg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was lucky enough to find a shoe shop that does really good resoles in my city. Not impossible to repair stuff, just hard
roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You also have to be able to afford shoes worthy of the considerable repair expense.
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
And even then it seems like the boots theory is dead for most stuff. Even when you buy the “premium” products they fall apart and are made of crap materials or are designed to be irreparable
tdawg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For me it was more about how much longer they would last. The soles they gave me were better than the originals. The rest is just small stiches and patchwork I can do at home