🚀 go-pugleaf

  As a recent transplant to the Boston area, I'm looking for a running
store that has:
     1. good inventory of shoes (a wide range of makes & models);
     2. experienced staff.
  I'm not looking for deep discounts.  Right now (having a "shoe crisis" --
my old standby line, ASICS, doesn't seem to work for me any more), good
advice is worth the extra you pay at a retail store.
  Relevant anecdote: About 12 years ago I was recommended to a store in
Kansas City (Phidipides Running Store).  The folks there were practically
orthopods -- they checked out my arches & knees and disuaded me from the
shoes I had intended to buy.  The shoes I ended up with would not have been
my choice, left to my own devices -- they seemed too firm and, well, low-tech.
But no shoe before or since has ever served me so well.  I paid retail,
and it was a bargain.
  Thanks for any advice,    ...Jim Paschetto.