These days, Chris Billman is saving a lot of soles. The shoe repairman and Davenport business owner isn’t alone. The shelves at local shoe repair shops are filling up as customers tighten their purse ...

Walk into almost any shoe repair store and it’s like stepping back in time with the smells of polish, glue and leather, and shelves of worn shoes that call to mind a cobbler shop from another century.

ORMOND BEACH — In the age of smart phones and artificial intelligence, the notion of shoe repair seems positively ancient, a skill to be demonstrated next to the blacksmith shop in some historic ...