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I can echo the review of PissedConsumer116**** on the Worx Boots with crumbling soles. My employer (retired 5+ years now) bought us new work boots every year, but I take care of my stuff so I gathered a collection of 'nice' boots to wear places other than work and would get many years out of the boots I actually wore on the job. Anyway, fast forward to today, going out to dinner and figured I break out a pair of rarely worn boots - something different for today...

The soles are melting gummy bears - but I wore them anyway. Just got home and I spent a few minutes picking out little rocks and whatever other debris they picked up. I could feel the soles sticking to my brake pedal in the car.

They're still nice enough on the top side to wear to my mom's but they will get taken off at the front door and definitely not good to walk on someone's white carpet with. Not that I would anyway.

The tops still look nice; can't say how long the soles will last though...kinda sad. I don't frivolously buy a lot of expensive things; when I get something nice I tend to try to keep it nice...I guess that backfired on me. I should go through and examine all my other employer-provided shoes I still have waiting in the wings...and here I thought I'd be in 'new' shoes for many years to come...

The photos of PIssedConsumer116**** would almost seem unbelievable for new shoes, but I have a feeling mine will suffer the same fate if I don't wear them very carefully. My shoes have spent most of 5 years still in the box and in the 10 minutes I wore them before leaving the house I felt like I was walking in wet tar. I'm wondering if maybe I can coat or treat the soles with something that will harden them or encase the 'slip resistant' soles in something. Can't slip in these shoes; they're so sticky they're like suction cups.

These are Steel Toe/Electrical Hazard Style 5275.

Reason of review: Bad quality.

Monetary Loss: $100.

Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution.

Location: San Jose, California

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Think of a sole like car tires. If you let them sit too long they start to crumble and crack. Depending on temperatures and humidity in the places you store them, it can cause the sole material to break down in different ways.

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Thanks for your comment. I probably won't be coming back here very often so too lazy to sign in...just posting as guest (but I am the OP).

I have 4 other pair of new 'Red Wing' shoes - but various brands...Worx, Wolverine, etc. All their soles are like brand new and not degraded at all. All stored in their original boxes in the same closet. My house is 100 years old and I only have a wall heater in the living room, so heat is not an issue.

I think it's just a unfortunate error in workmanship or choice of materials for a certain segment of Worx boots and shoes.

It's a shame in hindsight, because if I had known sooner...I would have used that defective pair to ruin in my yard. I instead gradually wore another pair that I really liked, but got careless with...so now within the last month I now have two pairs of new shoes 'ruined'.

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Thanks for your comment. I am the original poster.

I have 4 other brand new pair of 'Red Wing' shoes; various brands - Wolverine, Worx. As well as a number of other shoes. All are stored carefully in their original boxes in my bedroom closet and all are still in good, new condition. It was just the materials/workmanship used on this particular pair/style.

My house is 100 years old and I only have a wall heater in the living room. Therefore, in my case, heat and humidity are not factors. I have many other pairs of shoes not stored as carefully around the house, some really past their wise wearing life, but I use them especially if I'm going to be in mud; going to the beach, etc., or other abusive situations.

I think nothing of taking the garden hose to them and then letting them dry in the sun. I really do abuse those beater shoes; yet their soles have not turned into melting gummy bears...

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Continuing my post above to clarify something. I said 'brand new' shoes, but I must clarify that - as my original post stated - these were 'brand new' shoes when my employer paid for them.

The shoes are a few years old now, but still in new, in the box, condition.

I've been retired for over 6 years...so 5 out of 6 pair of 'new' shoes are good; only one pair the soles are disintegrating. Go figure.

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