Gander Mountain circling the drain

[Scout26]

Hey, cut him some slack.  He's been gone so long he has to relearn how to type...

[Sergeant Bob]

The Gander in Coldwater, Mi (where I live) is definitely going out of business. No great loss, we have a mega hardware store in Angola, In. with better gun prices.

[bedlamite]

Hey, cut him some slack.  He's been gone so long he has to relearn how to type...

No, Don't. He can't even come up with his own story.

[brimic]

Gawds, I could tell you horror stories about Gander (so could Bedlamite)

He walked into the local store, and was looking at a used Ruger Model 1 in .416 Rigby. Was told by the salesdrone that it was a "good deer cartridge"

Same salesdrone, when I brought in my replica Sharps .45-70 to sell, was trying to look it up... under original Remington rolling block

Again, same store... a couple days after I did their inventory Stepdad needed a new strong for his recurve, which I had located in their backroom. Salesdrone told me they didn't have such an animal (then got scared when I told him exactly where it was)

Gander was stillmarginally ok when I lived in Shevegas 20 years ago.
Just not marginal enough... Daane's hardware in Oostberg was always much better- I'll still make 2 trips 45 minutes out of my way if I want to order in something special.

[T.O.M.]

Drove past the one near me a couple of times over the weekend.  Saw guys loading shelves into trucks.  Yesterday, on the way home from work, the hurricane shutters over the doors were down at 5:30 p.m.  That's all folks.

Funny note, when the one near me converted to a Firearms SuperStore, some people got bent out of shape because there's a school about a mile down the road, and "da kidz" and "da gunz" and all.  These same people went to city council and demanded that they do something to keep the store from closing so tax dollars wouldn't be lost.