# How Shoe Carnival uses Algolia

**x3.5**: “Up to x3.5 conversions from search”

As published on [algolia.com](https://www.algolia.com/customers/shoe-carnival). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-07.

- Company: [Shoe Carnival](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/shoe-carnival.md)
- Tool: [Algolia](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/algolia.md)
- Teams: Merchandising, E-commerce

## What the story says

Shoe Carnival, a US footwear retailer, uses Algolia for site search and discovery on its headless ecommerce storefronts, including Dynamic Re-Ranking, search rules and Recommend. The merchandising team uses it to adjust search results without developer involvement, and it was used to split the catalog out by color.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Algolia and Shoe Carnival, not ours.

> Implementing Algolia’s search solution led to an immediate increase in conversion rates, a reduction in bounce rates, and higher engagement.

- **half the time**: “Improved productivity (half the time to make changes)”

> Algolia and Amplience are two of the biggest pieces of our composable ecosystem. They're key to the agility and speed in how we deploy content and manage the customer experience.
>
> Courtney Grisham, Director of E-commerce

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-07.

- Checked: the figure x3.5 is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Shoe Carnival.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Shoe Carnival.
- Checked: Shoe Carnival uses Algolia. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-07.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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Source: https://www.usedby.ai/case-studies/shoe-carnival-algolia · How we check: https://www.usedby.ai/methodology