Honestly, these days if you're buying shoes at all you're buying them from China, there's just a heck of a lot of people you're paying for those shoes from the point they're made to the point they get to you. If you wanted to buy them cheaper (provided their was a free way to get to China) you could just buy them there. Granted, it's a loose fit, but there are some parallels to be made... The economies have just gone from being inaccessible planets to being all lined up on the same street. Now you're window shopping worlds instead of having only one store to buy from. Much better for the consumer, much worse for the seller and with such disparity between worlds it will be a painful process until everything evens out.
"This too shall pass..."