TODO: human analysis. This page is a scaffold - the section headings + skeleton are in place but the actual numbers and analysis still need to be written. Until then this URL is excluded from primary navigation; sitemap + JSON-LD reference it so the structure is in place for the moment the analysis ships.

The Big Foot Tax: how much more Australian men with size 14+ feet pay for shoes

By Alex McClafferty, bigfeet research.

Methodology

[Placeholder] How the data was gathered: ~40 Australian retailers, daily scrapes, sizes US 14-17 normalised, prices in AUD, observation window, exclusions. The full method ships with the analysis.

The headline number

[Placeholder] Single-sentence answer to "how much more do big-foot Australian men pay?" with the supporting figure.

Markup by category

[Placeholder] Athletic, sneakers, boots, work, sandals, dress - per-category premium and stock gap.

Worst offenders

[Placeholder] Brands and retailers with the largest premium on big sizes vs the same model at size 12.

Best value retailers

[Placeholder] Where big-foot Australian men actually save money - retailers, brands, and categories where prices stay flat or close to flat across size 12 to size 17.

How we calculated this

[Placeholder] Step-by-step replication: data sources, the comparison methodology, edge cases, what the numbers do and don't include.

Download the data

The full dataset (CSV) is available at /research/big-foot-tax-data.csv. Reuse welcome under attribution to bigfeet.