Payless sold its discount shoes for $600 a pair at mock luxury influencer event. Mike Snider. USA TODAY. Troubled discount footwear chain Payless Shoesource may want to change its name.

Who would be willing to pay upward of $500 for Payless shoes? Hoodwinked social media influencers, that's who. Payless, a brand known for budget-friendly shoes, opened a fake pop-up store called ...

Payless sold discount shoes at luxury prices - and it worked; Sears, once dominant retailer, files for bankruptcy; The company, based in Topeka, Kansas, updated the number of stores it's closing ...

Payless took over a former Armani store in a mall, renamed it as “Palessi” and stocked the shop with its regular assortment of boots, pumps and leisure shoes—typically priced at $20 to $40 ...

Payless Shoes emerged from bankruptcy in January, after closing all of their U.S. brick-and-mortar locations. Now, the company says they have plans to open a couple hundred new stores.