Kids' footwear brand Stride Rite has been slammed by parents for ‘forcing’ gender roles on children. An advert for its Star Wars collection shows a boy brandishing a lightsaber along with the ...

In 1999, 25-year-old Christopher Miller was arrested after he forced employees into the back room of the Stride Rite shoe store on Hooper Avenue in Toms River, tied them up and fled with cash.