Every time a vegan shoe store opens, I get a little happier inside. Don’t you? Do you feel a bit jollier recently? The brilliantly titled new vegan shoe store (!), Nice Shoes (their tag line is “Being nice is more than just saying please and thank you”), is slated to open next month on Fraser Street in Vancouver. Though they won’t have an online store just yet, a little birdie told me that it was in their long-term plans. If they build it, vegans will come.
Got Nice Shoes?
Oh, and if you’re lucky enough to reside in East Van but are unlucky enough to be unemployed — or perhaps you’re looking for a little extra moola — Nice Shoes is hiring.
For-profit activism like this is precisely what we need more of in order to truly change the world for animals. It’s that whole supply and demand thing. Plus, we vegans need a reason to buy more shoes. As of next month, looks like there is yet another reason…