Assuming that you are talking about a self service shoe store where everything is sitting out in boxes and you wait on yourself, then the best suggestion I have is to just look like you know what you are doing. Find a shoe in your size and try it on like you do this all the time. If a store full of customers and clerks bothers you, then you might want to go when the store is not busy. You can always stand around looking like a bored husband or boyfriend who has wandered off on his own while the woman looks elsewhere until you see what you want. If the aisle has someone else in it and that makes you uncomfortable then just wait until the aisle is clear. To date, over the past three years, I have tried on and bought shoes in self service stores without so much as peep out of anyone, whether the store was busy or not. I have used empty aisles and gone to the end of aisles if I felt uncomfortable for any reason (usually because there was no where but the floor to sit down and try on shoes, and I fear that I would not be very graceful getting up and down) and I have tried on shoes next to women customers doing the same and been confomfortable doing it. But, most of all be civil, look like you know what you are doing, and don't make a production out of it. Just get the shoes and try them on and if they don't fit put them back in the box as you found them, and move on. If they fit, buy them.
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