Talk:shoe box

I found
 * A box designed for carrying shoes.

If replacing that requires documentation, then others with a longer-term interest can weigh the documentation for each version against the other -- if anyone is really prepared to defend what i'm removing. (I'd be surprised if the contributor of that def considered any other possibility; it does sounds right on if you haven't, and think good editing is about quantity). Actually a shoebox is
 * A box designed to hold one pair of shoes upper-against-upper (thereby preventing the shoes of that pair from marring each other's uppers with their respective soles), to prevent them from mingling with those of other pairs in the stock of the same retail establishment (which each keeps matched pair together and protects their uppers from the soles of other pairs), and to provide at least one surface on which the contents can be described, in order to facilitate faster location of the pairs of shoes suitable for presentation to a particular customer.

It must be true that at most brick-and-mortar stores most customers carry either their new or old shoes out of the store in the shoe box, but that's a serendipitous re-use, not a central design criterion. --Jerzy•t 01:58, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Both are too specific- the more you qualify a definition, the more variations you exclude. It doesn't really matter what the purpose is for putting shoes in a shoebox, only that it's designed for the purpose. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:10, 26 June 2014 (UTC)