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Selling my sole?

I'm at an emotional, moral, rational and were I not an anti theist, spiritual crossroads. Here's my quandary:

Our store receives a dozen calls (at least) every week for a particular product that we don't carry. This product is sold nearly everywhere. However, our town of nearly 100,000 people has no current dealers of this product. Seems like a no brainer, these are one of the most well known shoes on the market today. The rub is though, I have alway hated this product, and most folks that know me know how I feel about this product. A very well respected member of the footwear community, asked me a few weeks ago why I hated this product so much. For the wordy, bullshitter I usually am, I really didn't have a good response: Well, uh, they're ugly and um, I think they aren't all that good for your feet. He explained to me how great they were for certain uses and I couldn't disagree. So should I flip flop on this issue? If I don't, I'm possibly missing out on big sales of a product that actually fits in well with many of the other styles we carry. If we do, then I've got a complete QUAGMIRE of styles and accessories to go through. Oh well, better get back to my other pre-season ordering!

Since we're talking Dansko...

Check out these beautiful, hand-painted 'Sko's by Romney Dodd-Ortland. You can get your very own HERE!

In competition with themselves?

Dansko clogs are crazy popular. I met some great folks from Anchorage that do over $1,000,000.00 in Dansko sales a year in their store. Here's the thing though, Dansko doesn't really make their own shoes (and who  really does these days with most things being made in Chinese factories). This is where it gets interesting; the company that makes Dansko's clogs, with that bombproof, uber-supportive platform that gives such great support for most feet, is now out of the confines of a patent and are going to be offering identical shoes themselves. Just try to buy a pair of Danskos in Europe, it won't happen, because they don't  exist. The salesmen you'd be describing the shoe to would tell you, "Those are Sanita Clogs you silly American". Sanita Clogs have been making footwear since 1907, and since the late 1991 making clogs for Mandy Cabot and Peter Kjellerup of Dansko. So how will this work? Aren't they essentially in competition with themselves? Will Dansko continue to thrive based on their stellar reputation here? Personally, I can't wait to get them in my store. I've always liked Dansko, but haven't carried them since a dealer is only a block and a half away.   Please, if I have my facts all wrong here let me know. I certainly did some research but could be off on something here. All this was written after overhearing an interesting conversation at the big Vegas shoe show. By the way, can you tell which one of the clogs pictured is a Dansko and which is a Sanita?