SALISBURY — When it came down to it, all Pat Weddington wanted was a hand-stitcher and a polisher to help with repairs he sometimes had to make to shoes he and his wife were selling on eBay.

The grown-up customers walk in clutching their grown-up wallets and purses, wearing their grown-up suits and work uniforms, talking their grown-up talk about the kids and the job. They leave pouting, ...

To many young people today, a cobbler is something you have for dessert, says Lee Vaccaro. And therein lies the problem. "Not only are fewer people becoming cobblers," he says, "but younger people don ...

DULUTH, Minn.—For the first time in decades, the number of shoe repair shops in Duluth has increased. Now there are two. National observers say shoe repair—long a declining industry—has seen a ...