Obituary: Harold Sells
Harold Sells, who convinced his boss at F.W. Woolworth to build a chain of sneaker stores in the 1970s that became Foot Locker, died July 29 at the age of 92. Like many of the generation that started Foot Locker, Sells joined Woolworth’s Kinney Shoe Store division as a salesman fresh out of high school and worked his way up through the ranks as store manager and regional manager. They lacked formal education but they all shared that merchant’s eye that watches how people shop and what they buy in order to figure out where to bet their inventory dollars. ... Log in to view full article.