I haven't yet seen Skechers being sold in any running specialty stores I've been in and I'm curious about this. Does anybody have a local running store with Skechers? If not is that because Skechers doesn't want to go through local running stores or because buyers at running stores are reluctant to bring them in? I know there's still skepticism out there about them, but more and more I read positive reviews of their running shoes. The manager of the local store here said that Skechers is a terrible shoe company and can't believe that they could make a decent product but then he has also permanently judged all Nike running shoes as terrible on the basis of the Shox.