Shoes.com (previously known as ShoeBuy.com) is an American footwear retailer. The website was established in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
during 1999. In 2006, the company was acquired by
IAC. In December 2016,
Jet.com
Jet.com was an American e-commerce company headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey. The company was co-founded in 2014 by Marc Lore (who had previously sold Diapers.com to Amazon.com), along with Mike Hanrahan and Nate Faust. Jet.com raised $820 mi ...
(a subsidiary of Walmart) completed the acquisition of ShoeBuy from IAC. It was reported that Walmart paid US$70 million for the company. As of 2017, Shoes.com contains over one million products, many which can also be purchased on Jet.com. ShoeBuy was re-branded as Shoes.com shortly after the acquisition closed.
In October 2020, Walmart sold Shoes.com to CriticalPoint Capital, a private equity firm, for an undisclosed amount.
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Footwear retailers of the United States
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