Dick's sporting stores

Ours is closing because its lease is up. The local government basically bribed a bunch of businesses with economic incentives to locate in a new mega strip-mall complex it was also subsidizing to try to create low skill jobs for the area. Those deals are expiring and several places, including Dick's have announced they are closing.
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
Looks like they're finding it necessary to close some stores.

I wonder why?? :D
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That's a shame.

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Kacper said:
Ours is closing because its lease is up. The local government basically bribed a bunch of businesses with economic incentives to locate in a new mega strip-mall complex it was also subsidizing to try to create low skill jobs for the area. Those deals are expiring and several places, including Dick's have announced they are closing.
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Was it a bribe or was it an incentive? They are different.
 
I am not for any American business going belly-up, but Dicks cannot compete with Academy in Ft. Smith, AR if they restrict the kinds of guns they sell....and they do. I suspect they’ll shuffle off to parts of the ountey where they have their niche of customers who buy lots of running shoes and leg warmers and such. I hope they succeed. American companies succeeding means jobs and revenue for our government.
 
A lot of stores saw disappointing holiday sales, including JC Penney which has announced store closures. People are buying more online, it is the future.

This has nothing to do with Dick’s politics.
 
Phantasmal said:
A lot of stores saw disappointing holiday sales, including JC Penney which has announced store closures. People are buying more online, it is the future.

This has nothing to do with Dick’s politics.
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You wish it didn't have anything to do with their politics.
 
CFM said:
The law. The dictionary.
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Depends on who you ask. There are plenty of people who feel there was dishonesty about the whole thing, including vastly understating to the public the true cost of the "incentives" being offered and vastly overestimating the number of jobs to be created and additional revenues that would be generated. How shocking it was for people to figure out that a dollar spent at Dick's doesn't generate any more revenue than a dollar spent at Walmart, Dunhams, or the little niche sporting goods stores.
 
Kacper said:
Depends on who you ask. There are plenty of people who feel there was dishonesty about the whole thing, including vastly understating to the public the true cost of the "incentives" being offered and vastly overestimating the number of jobs to be created and additional revenues that would be generated. How shocking it was for people to figure out that a dollar spent at Dick's doesn't generate any more revenue than a dollar spent at Walmart, Dunhams, or the little niche sporting goods stores.
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No one cares about feelings only the facts. Do you have any facts that bribes were made?
 
Phantasmal said:
A lot of stores saw disappointing holiday sales, including JC Penney which has announced store closures. People are buying more online, it is the future.

This has nothing to do with Dick’s politics.
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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight; because it's just coincidence that their sales began to decline, soon after their decision on firearms was announced. :good4u:

:facepalm:
 
leaningright said:
I am not for any American business going belly-up, but Dicks cannot compete with Academy in Ft. Smith, AR if they restrict the kinds of guns they sell....and they do. I suspect they’ll shuffle off to parts of the ountey where they have their niche of customers who buy lots of running shoes and leg warmers and such. I hope they succeed. American companies succeeding means jobs and revenue for our government.
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I'd say it's pretty safe to say that with few exceptions that most of Dick's customers go there for primarily for athletic clothing. Dick's has for some time been shifting their sales of outdoors man gear and equipment to their Field and Stream stores. You can't even buy fishing gear at my local Dick's anymore. I have to drive to the far north side of town to go to their Field and Stream store and to be honest...the fishing gear at Cabela's or Bass Pro is better. I have a sneaky hunch that if I were to desire to purchase a fire arm I could probably get a better quality equipment at my local gun shop. When I go to a sporting goods store I'm usually looking for sport specific gear and clothing and Dick's never has had much in the sports I've been interested in and what they do have is usually entry level gear at low prices.
 
Phantasmal said:
A lot of stores saw disappointing holiday sales, including JC Penney which has announced store closures. People are buying more online, it is the future.

This has nothing to do with Dick’s politics.
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I can only think of one business I have boycotted for political reasons and that's Jimmy John's and it's not really political so much as I think they are total assholes for making minimum wage workers sign non-compete agreements and then enforcing them. That and their sandwiches aren't "that" good.
 
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