Puma

I’ve always been a big fan of Puma shoes so it was nice to see that this Puma store had a pretty great selection of their most recent line. I went in already knowing the shoes I wanted because I had seen them online. The sales rep greeted me promptly at the door and was very friendly and shoed me to the shoes I was looking for. When I looked at the price they were $ 20 more expensive then they were on the Puma website. I asked them if they would match the price from the website and they said they couldn’t do it. On the upside though, they had a promotion going on where if you buy ANY pair of shoes you get a free backpack (which is a $ 40 value) so I didn’t mind paying the extra $ 20 bucks for the shoes.

I am more of an Adidas kind of girl but I have an intense crush on Puma. Always simple, slick designs with cool colors. So seeing that the store was having a 20% off sale for Mother’s Day, I walked in to look at their shoe collection for the milionth time. Then I fell in love with a pair. Apparently, it’s one of their newest colors. Of course, I bought it. Yay for the 20% off!
Small store with a seemingly limited selection. But I think it’s a good thing — make browsing and making decisions much easier.
Good customer service.
I got a 25% off coupon to use for the month of July because I spent more than $ 50. I’ll be back for another pair.

i’m a big fan of puma shoes since they stopped producing sports shoes. (their casual shoes collection is now a lot larger than their sports shoes collection)
i like this puma store better than the one in soho because there are more shoes. the guy who was helping me with getting shoes to try on and stuff was really nice (and was really gay, which i liked :)
their clothes collect was pretty much the same as the one in soho though. but this branch is a lot less busy.

I don’t get it…
Ok its a puma store — NO PROBLEM — went in there started to look at something got jumped with «may i help you» — can you like let me breath, its not that serious.
Started to look around everything there is not PUMA .
If you want to find something your size guess what you need to hunt down a sales associate then he does something and then ta da your shoes or what ever ride up in this little elevator in the middle of the store — the wait can be fast to are you making my shoe down there or what. — Meh not much of a good impression just a place to go see and touch stuff they sell online.

I have never been able to wear puma shoes. They never fit. But, I figured I’d try again. Of course I failed, but I feel the need to comment on their try-​on system:
The dumbwaiter idea is sortof cool; rather than your salesperson having to run away and look for something, they just order it from the basement and it appears. This generally seems like a good idea, but why they don’t use barcode readers or something is beyond me. Half of the time in the store is salespeople just saying «I HAVE A MENS CHECK STYLE NUMBER 12 312 COLOR CODE 234 234 SIZE 11 OR 12.»
Surely there is a better way.

Great store, great location, very nice customer service.

I’ve stepped in here a couple of times thinking I might want to get something, but eventually leave emty handed. I think Puma looks good on a lot of people, just not me. But the truth is, when you’re selection is as small as the selection here, there simply isn’t much gear for you to look good in. While the Puma store in SoHo has a more selection, it does have an additional floor, one of the things that baffles me is the wall of Evisu jeans in this location. I don’t know what Evisu has to do with Puma, but if you’re in a fix for spendy, trendy Japanese denim, this may be the place for you. If you’re looking for a cool pair of kicks, Puma or otherwise, I’d suggest taking the subway two stops down to Prince street to begin your search there.

Apparently, Puma was started in 1948 by Rudolph Dassler, Adi Dassler’s (founder of Adidas) brother. After some kind of bitter dispute, Rudy stormed off and started his own athletic shoe company, and the rivalry began. Naturally, if Adidas has stores in NYC, Puma must now have even more of them.
*Sigh*
Does anyone remember a time when sporting goods companies made and sold stuff that was actually designed for sports? I miss those days. This place has all kinds of nonfunctional Puma jeans, bags, and hats, but very little in the way of products actually intended for use in sports. Despite the fact that Puma still makes such things, this store focuses completely on the fashion «sport style» market.
Before I moved to the area, I wasn’t quite so aware of these «flagship» sporting shoe companies, but NYC has them all: Niketown, the New Balance store, the Adidas store, the Reebok store, and the Puma store. Apparently, I am not up on my MBA lingo, because these are not called «flagship» stores. They are called «concept» stores. According to an article I found, this particular Puma store’s concept is to make you feel like you’re inside a shipping container.
???
And why would I want to feel like I’m inside a shipping container? Is this so customers can feel empathy for the mass-​produced Chinese-​made goods they’re buying?
While I disliked this store, it still offends me less than Niketown, so I guess I have to give it one star more, thus the overly generous three stars instead of two. I still long for the old days when companies made a product first, THEN worked on the branding and marketing, and not the other way around.