She told me that morning, 'Look, they're having this great shoe sale at Bloomingdale's,'.

I parked the bike close to the Macy's door because Macy's was having a shoe sale.

Yes, we get excited about a shoe sale.

Exhibition games normally have about as much intrigue as a one-day shoe sale at Kmart.

For some New Yorkers, a shoe sale is an incidental thing, a chance to pick up a pair of loafers, or rummage through racks of heels.

"She told me that morning, 'Look, they're having this great shoe sale at Bloomingdale's,"' Mr. Koppell said of his wife.

There is always the bank or the shoe sale at Bergdorf's or shampoo and conditioner at the discount drugstore the next block over.

Yuriko Nakao/Reuters Checking out a shoe sale in Tokyo.

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor shoe sale at Macys could get me out of Saturday dinner with my parents.

I asked the people at the shoe sale.