Wal-Mart Women’s Shoes

What went wrong

The notice saysHeels on the shoes can easily detach, posing a fall hazard to consumers.

A fall hazard means a part that carries your weight or keeps the shoe on your foot can fail while walking. Our archive shows this pattern across sandals, boots and dress shoes; the notice text above names the specific part.

How to tell if your pair is affected

Product description in the noticeThis recall involves women’s sling-back, pointed-toe shoes sold under the George brand. The shoes were sold in three colors, black, gray and purple, and in sizes 5 ½ to 11.

The notice gives no style numbers or barcodes, so you match on what it does give: the brand and style (Women’s Shoes), the sizes (sizes 5 ½ to 11), the sale period (June 2008 to December 2008), the store (Walmart) and the “made in” label (China). If a detail does not line up, the recall contact below can confirm.

What the notice tells you to do

RemedyConsumers should immediately stop wearing the shoes and return them to the nearest Wal-Mart for a full refund.

Recall contact, as printed in the notice: For additional information, contact Wal-Mart Stores at (800) 925-6278 between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or visit the firm’s Web site at www.walmartstores.com for more information.

The recall is 17 years old, and the last pairs were sold about 17 years ago. The notice gives a phone number and a website for the firm; contact details that old may no longer work, while the CPSC notice stays online as the record of the recall.

How this recall compares

• With about 200,000 units, this is the 10th largest of the 95 footwear recalls in our archive that give a U.S. unit count. The median recall in the archive covers about 7,200 units, so this one is well above typical size.
• 26 other footwear recalls in the archive cite the same kind of hazard (falls), 9 of them in women’s footwear. The earliest in this group dates from 1998.
• The notice puts the sales window at about 7 months (June 2008 to December 2008), against a median of 7 months across recalls that state one. The recall came 4 months after the last sale date.
• The notice gives a price of $13. For shoes in the archive the typical stated price is about $38, so this pair sat at the cheaper end of its group.
• No incidents were reported before this recall. That is true of 36 of the 95 detailed notices in the archive: firms often recall after their own testing or a supplier finding, not after injuries.

Year, part, store and origin

• 2009 brought 9 footwear recalls in our archive, covering about 1,926,500 units in all. This was the 3rd of the year by date and the 3rd largest by units.
• The notice names the heel as the part that fails. 8 other footwear recalls in the archive name the same part in their hazard statement; the most recent is Women’s High Heeled Sandals (2023).
• Sold at Walmart. 2 other footwear recalls in the archive also list Walmart as a seller; the most recent is Buster Brown & Co.'s Clog Children’s Shoes (2009).
• Made in China. 61 of the 91 notices in the archive that name a country list China (67%).
• At the stated price, the 200,000 units come to roughly $2.6 million of retail sales, one of the ten largest recalls in the archive.

Comparisons use the 103 footwear recalls in our archive, read from the CPSC recall database on October 20, 2026. See data and methods.