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Dick's may drop hunting gear
« on: November 28, 2018, 11:07:06 PM »
Despite lackluster sales, Dick's is considering dropping hunting gear after dropping EBR's.  And they wonder why their sales are down.

Anyway, if they do decide to get out of selling hunting gear, it'll be a chance to maybe get some stuff on the cheap.

  http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/dicks-sporting-goods-mulls-dropping-hunting-gear/ar-BBQdrUy?ocid=ientp
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2018, 11:17:53 PM »
Maybe if they get rid of all their merchandise their business will improve ...... [tinfoil]
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2018, 11:23:00 PM »
Good. They should also put Republican entrances and Republican water fountains in all their stores.

I could be wrong, but I think the more polarized this country becomes, the better. Anti-American corporations, politicians, educators, media figures, should keep telling us in more and more clear terms just how little they have in common with us.

Also, they should burn more American flags, so everyone knows they're not a part of our country.
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2018, 11:26:35 PM »
It's time to let go of Dick's.
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2018, 12:00:19 AM »
Well, I won't step in a Dicks so they can keep stepping on it. Probably no closeouts and cheap gear, same company as Field and Stream so just shuffle the cups around and voila! Short memory rednecks go to F&S, urban yutes go to Dick's. Pander to both crowds at once.
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2018, 12:04:12 AM »
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Strategic decisions we made regarding firearms earlier this year....

On a scale of one to invade Russia in winter what kinda strategic decisions were those?
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2018, 12:10:50 AM »
most of their hunting clothes was *expletive deleted*it anyways. No great loss.
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2018, 06:56:25 AM »
I've not set foot in Dick's in years. They've always been a horrible excuse for a "sporting goods store."

They purchased Galyan's years ago and destroyed what was a really good sporting goods store chain by Dicking with it.

Yes, that was a pun.
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2018, 08:05:50 AM »
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Dick's may drop hunting gear

Dick's can drop dead.

Like fistful said, I'm glad they identified themselves as leftists.  Now I can mock them while I avoid them even more than I already do.
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2018, 08:11:37 AM »
I went in the Dick's here on a week night before hunting season and it was a ghost town. Even more so in the hunting section.
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2018, 09:27:30 AM »
Dicks can screw themselves.

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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2018, 09:34:37 AM »
Dicks can screw themselves.

I'm pretty sure that's not actually true . . . . .
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2018, 10:10:34 AM »
Their stock is up for the year, so maybe they think this is the right direction for them. Of course their five year stock chart tells a different story. :)

Nevertheless, it seems like they're on their way to becoming a Big 5, but without a gun and hunting section.
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #14 on: November 29, 2018, 10:17:44 AM »
Our country is becoming more economically stratified.

Many retailers have identified the core consumer, demographic, that they are trying to attract and going deep on products/categories that will appeal to them.

People like us aren’t their core consumer so why invest in trying to appeal to us?

Much of brick and mortar seems to be becoming more focused, more “boutique”. They are chasing the folks with the money and who spend the money.

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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #15 on: November 29, 2018, 11:06:33 AM »
"Many retailers have identifying the core consumer, demographic, that they are trying to attract and going deep on products/categories that will appeal to them."

So... they'll be changing the name to Dick's Yoga Pants?

I'm surprised that they don't have feminist SJWers petitioning them to change the company name because anything that infers a penis is too rapey...
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #16 on: November 29, 2018, 04:18:09 PM »
"Many retailers have identifying the core consumer, demographic, that they are trying to attract and going deep on products/categories that will appeal to them."

So... they'll be changing the name to Dick's Yoga Pants?

I'm surprised that they don't have feminist SJWers petitioning them to change the company name because anything that infers a penis is too rapey...

We can start rumors you know.
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #17 on: November 29, 2018, 04:57:46 PM »
I really miss Gaylan's Trading Post.  Why couldn't their management have taken over instead ??
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #18 on: December 01, 2018, 04:14:07 PM »
Speaking of Big 5...

Show me on the doll where the scary store hurt you:

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/12/01/best-selling-author-becomes-sporting-goods-salesman-after-balking-at-the-display-of-rifles/

Also, I've never heard of this "best selling author".
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #19 on: December 01, 2018, 05:44:26 PM »
Sports writer.  Had a book on NYT best seller list for a while.  I wonder if displays of fishing equipment would have jarred him.

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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #22 on: December 11, 2018, 02:30:27 PM »
He also did the interview with Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker that caused such an incredible blow up back in 2000.

As for the responses to his tweet...

"Well then leftists like yourself are in no position to accuse gun owners of having tiny dicks when just the mere sight of guns in a store is enough to scare you out of the building."

Yikes!  :rofl:
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #23 on: April 05, 2019, 09:27:11 AM »
Thread necro:

I just now heard a Dick's ad on the radio. It was their female - I thought she said president, but maybe CEO - talking about how Dick's is now more family oriented with more baseball, soccer, tennis, and golf gear than ever before. "Be sure to stop by to see our "family sports" inventory!"
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Re: Dick's may drop hunting gear
« Reply #24 on: April 05, 2019, 11:33:33 AM »
Despite lackluster sales, Dick's is considering dropping hunting gear after dropping EBR's.  And they wonder why their sales are down.

Anyway, if they do decide to get out of selling hunting gear, it'll be a chance to maybe get some stuff on the cheap.

  http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/dicks-sporting-goods-mulls-dropping-hunting-gear/ar-BBQdrUy?ocid=ientp

Meanwhile, on the way back from this years Illinois Gun Owner Lobby Day, the bus decided they wanted to stop at Bass Pro Shop in Peoria.

Interesting place.  Kind of a well decorated Walmart that specializes in Gunz 'n hunting and fishing and all that.
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