Woman Buys Out Shoe Store, for a Cause

A Kansas woman donated 204 pairs of shoes to Nebraska flood victims after buying everything that was left at a closing Payless store, per the AP. The Hays Post reports the shoes, with a retail price of more than $6,000, were part of a flood relief shipment taken to farmers in Nebraska by Fort Hays State's agriculture sorority, Sigma Alpha, over the weekend. A graduate of Fort Hays State, Addy Tritt said she wanted to help others because so many people have helped her in the past. When the price at a Hays store dropped to $1 per pair, Tritt negotiated with the business to buy the remaining shoes for $100. They included 162 pairs of baby shoes and two pairs of men's shoes. The rest were women's shoes. (A man's final wish was for lots of shoes—to be given to others.)