A graphic ranking the world's top 10 sneaker retailers by store count has been making the rounds. The numbers look sharp on a slide deck. Under scrutiny, several of them don't hold up — one retailer is understated by more than a thousand locations, two separate companies are quietly merged into a single entry, and the leader's count appears inflated by roughly 1,500 stores. Here's what the data actually says. All figures sourced from official company annual reports and investor relations filings