Dick's now hates FUDDs too.

[Lank]

Dick's pulled "assault weapons" first, then certain ammo. And some of the FUDDs seemed to think that was "okay" because they weren't affecting hunters. After all, they were just getting rid of the "bad stuff".

Just like any gun control platform, warm up that water with the frog in it until it boils - he won't notice if you do it slowly.

Dick's Sporting Goods pulling hunting gear from 440 more locations

The move follows a similar — albeit much smaller — effort last year.

www.foxnews.com

I used to pick up ammo now and the years ago. They would always scan my LTC and when I asked several time if they were recording my purchase, the corporate customer service people wouldn't respond

 

[Quite_Exasperated]

Why invest the emotional energy to get angry at one business? Would your life not be better if you just write them off, and go about your business without them?

From a business point of view, reallocating toward higher-margin products makes sense for them, provided they can sell the replacement merchandise. Firearms and ammo are among the lowest-profit items in all of retail. Regular Dick's stores were never good at selling firearms anyway, although a couple of the F&S stores were very successful before The Great Pandering decision.

Lower margins than any of the cheap Chinese made crap for other sporting goods? Baseball gloves, soccer balls, tennis raquets, etc.? Maybe so, I think it was about soccer Mom optics...they could have had a back room where the guns were sold (like the porn room at the video stores of old) Ha!

 

[BobR51]

I see chapter 11 in their future.

 

[Dennis in MA]

I wonder what the breakdown is of sales at D-words. I mean, I can see how sports sales would be down, but are they really selling a lot of sporting supplies? Cups and shoulder'ma'pads and hockey-cleats and things??? Pinnies. Damn. I really could use an orange pinny right now. I can't feel like I'm an effective player without wearing a pinny. LOL. (Ever notice - no pins in pinnies?? Same guy named hot dogs, too.)

Or is their REAL sales in NFL merch? I think sneakers are probably a big % of their business. As might be golf. Seems like golf stores come and go but Dick's has enough other sales to maintain a decent golf inventory.

 

[FiremanBob]

Lower margins than any of the cheap Chinese made crap for other sporting goods? Baseball gloves, soccer balls, tennis raquets, etc.? Maybe so, I think it was about soccer Mom optics...they could have had a back room where the guns were sold (like the porn room at the video stores of old) Ha!

It is rare that the retail gross profit margin (sale price - cost)/sale price exceeds 20% on firearms in the gun industry. GPM is at least 30% on most other sporting goods and usually 50% on clothing.

 

[general disorder]

Finally something good coming out of the Wuhan . Oh yea

 

[Drix]

Finally something good coming out of the Wuhan . Oh yea

If they were still selling AR's, firearms, and ammo they'd be making bank right now

 

[Waher]

I'd really like to know how Harvard's MBA program can keep churning out morons that think virtue signaling cause whoring is more important than treating and serving your customer base well and that established management can't seem to figure out these Harvard MBA's aren't worth hiring. Company after company keeps destroying itself by bending over backwards to cater to people which aren't and never will be their customers while going out of their way to shit all over and alienate their previously loyal customer base.

 

[general disorder]

I'd really like to know how Harvard's MBA program can keep churning out morons that think virtue signaling cause whoring is more important than treating and serving your customer base well and that established management can't seem to figure out these Harvard MBA's aren't worth hiring. Company after company keeps destroying itself by bending over backwards to cater to people which aren't and never will be their customers while going out of their way to shit all over and alienate their previously loyal customer base.

I've often wondered this myself. Until the college admission scandal happened. After that a lot of this stupidity makes sense.

 

[Devils Paintbrush]

I used to spend a lot of time and money in that establishment until they had a mental breakdown, haven't stepped foot in the store since.
What they failed to consider is that gun owners buy a lot of other outdoor equipment, now they buy it somewhere else like me. They created their own problem.
I have no more sympathy for that company.

Company execs will not be the ones to suffer in the end...they will take what is left and retire in style.

 

[seanc]

They can pull the firearms section and just install a permanent sjw section. Tacticool antifa gear. “Just Cancel IT” t-shirts. $75 SJW slogan shirts railing against capitalism made for $.35 in a slave labor sweat shop in China..

you know feel good products at high margins.. maybe bundle with some Yeti or Nike stuff.. it’ll be lovely..
maybe call it Karen’s Korner?

 

[BobR51]

If they were still selling AR's, firearms, and ammo they'd be making bank right now

Also, all this BS with BLM and professional sports. Hah, lots of people are going to boycott the NFL and NBA as well as other teams that cave. So there goes the Jersey, hats and all the other swag sales. Unless they become a giant golf store.They're done!

 

[Dennis in MA]

I'd really like to know how Harvard's MBA program can keep churning out morons that think virtue signaling cause whoring is more important than treating and serving your customer base well and that established management can't seem to figure out these Harvard MBA's aren't worth hiring. Company after company keeps destroying itself by bending over backwards to cater to people which aren't and never will be their customers while going out of their way to shit all over and alienate their previously loyal customer base.

It's another sad victim of the low-low-low interest rate market we've found ourselves in under. . . 3 separate Fed Chairs since 2008. Going on year 13 soon. 13 years of artificially low interest rates.

What does that do???

It allows corporate executives to fob off a TON of risk. Think about it. If savings acts are paying 1% and bonds 2% and the market has a potential of 10%, where is your money gonna go??? Even with one bad year out of 3, you're still WAAAAY ahead of the game as an investor. This means DEMAND for stock is high.

Couple that with low cost of capital to borrow - more C-suite members are recommending just buying back stock with corporate profits. No reason to build that risky factory or new product. Just buy back stock, show a bigger profit per share and look like a genius! If you run out of money doing so, just borrow a bit at practically ZERO rates. (This is also why Powell's big interest rate drop is doing bupkis to the economy - the difference between 2% and 0% is just not significant. Not in the least!)

Innovation dies in this environment. It's like helping a baby chick out of the shell. You ensure it's death by not letting it make itself stronger.


I've been chimp-screaming for higher rates for a decade. F the short term. F the real estate market. The REAL money that needs to be made in an economy - that is suffering at the hands of bad CEO's who can't manage their way out of their local Starbucks without a map and two handlers - is in companies innovating and taking risks. Higher interest rates forces companies to make better C hires and forces Chiefs to work harder, adapt faster and learn what they didn't know for a decade.

And it gets rid of this virtue-signaling crap. A CEO working his or her ass off to make $ for the company has ZERO time to worry about what the corporate opinion is on CHAZ.

Oh, and these higher-risk CEO's. . . . create a S-ton more jobs. So nobodygottimefordatprotesting!


But what the hell do I know. I'm not a Fed Chair.

 

[Waher]

I've come around to thinking that stock buybacks should be illegal or at least making it illegal to borrow money to buy back stocks, since that seems to be a favorite of vultures to buy a company, load it with debt borrowing to buy back stock issued to the purchaser, so the purchaser has made their money back and then some by essentially running up someone else's credit card, and then dumping the company so they aren't responsible for the debt they ran up to pay themselves with. Same with naked short selling, too much incentive to intentionally wreck viable companies and lives to make money for no reason other than greed. Too many clowns manipulating the market like a game with no connection to the actual companies, destroying jobs and entire industries over transactional f***ery that doesn't generate any real wealth. These traders have hit the level of tort lawyers when it comes to being transactional parasites making money without adding any value and they should be taking in the shorts for what's really legalized extortion and or the equivalent of mob style bust up loan fraud.

 

[xtry51]

I've come around to thinking that stock buybacks should be illegal or at least making it illegal to borrow money to buy back stocks, since that seems to be a favorite of vultures to buy a company, load it with debt borrowing to buy back stock issued to the purchaser, so the purchaser has made their money back and then some by essentially running up someone else's credit card, and then dumping the company so they aren't responsible for the debt they ran up to pay themselves with. Same with naked short selling, too much incentive to intentionally wreck viable companies and lives to make money for no reason other than greed. Too many clowns manipulating the market like a game with no connection to the actual companies, destroying jobs and entire industries over transactional f***ery that doesn't generate any real wealth. These traders have hit the level of tort lawyers when it comes to being transactional parasites making money without adding any value and they should be taking in the shorts for what's really legalized extortion and or the equivalent of mob style bust up loan fraud.

The root issue is the existence of the Fed. If the Fed was abolished interest rates would prevent that from happening.

 

[Waher]

The root issue is the existence of the Fed. If the Fed was abolished interest rates would prevent that from happening.

I'd like to think that but the years when the Fed didn't exist between Jackson and Wilson still had the same shit going on with the stock market with various panics and bank failures due to speculative shenanigans. Yes, most of those were caused because of .Gov spending leading to rampant speculation in railroads or trade imbalances because of monopolies or cartels screwing with things, but still there were still issues without a Federal Reserve.

 

[xtry51]

I'd like to think that but the years when the Fed didn't exist between Jackson and Wilson still had the same shit going on with the stock market with various panics and bank failures due to speculative shenanigans. Yes, most of those were caused because of .Gov spending leading to rampant speculation in railroads or trade imbalances because of monopolies or cartels screwing with things, but still there were still issues without a Federal Reserve.

To be clear you cannot stop the boom bust cycle. It is as natural as population growth/regession

 

[Broomcorn]

Had a conversation with an officer at a(unmentioned) gun club, hell of a nice guy but, then he said," I don't care if they do away with the 2nd amendment as long as thy grandfather you and me." That's what we're up against.

So, he's OK being hearded into a boxcar as long as he's the last person being herded into the box car is what he is saying....

 

[AHM]

To be clear you cannot stop the boom bust cycle. It is as natural as population growth/regession

Isn't that a little unfair to the brain trust that invented stagflation?
It's not a cycle if it's all-bust/all-the-time.

 

[AHM]

I'd like to think that but the years when the Fed didn't exist between Jackson and Wilson still had the same shit going on with the stock market with various panics and bank failures due to speculative shenanigans. Yes, most of those were caused because of .Gov spending leading to rampant speculation in railroads or trade imbalances because of monopolies or cartels screwing with things, but still there were still issues without a Federal Reserve.

Wonder how much of that volatility related to the kind of hijinks
that the SEC is (supposed to) regulate?

Not all of it, but probably not none of it.

(Of course if one thinks that markets are sclerotic now,
wait until you see the regs they invent
after some economy gets nulled out
by an automated trading glitch, or deliberate algorithm).

 

[Dr. Claw]

I hear fishing products are next.

golf is also a dying sport with millennials killing it off, though they also own Golf Galaxy, I buy all my stuff from anywhere but there but I'll be honest its a challenge .... hopefully they go under soon, place is terrible....happened in to a few this past week (Saugus, Salem, and Nashua) all of their hunting/outdoors sections were gone...Nashua and Saugus still had a few long guns but it was clear they are turning into a t shirt depot.

I also shoot trap and have heard a few of what you guys call Fudds and would shake my head when they would say things like "well they will keep selling shot shells and hunting stuff"

as someone said above the good is that there is no reason for anyone in this sport to go there ever again, the challenge is that the places which sell shot shells are getting to be fewer and further away.

 

[teaser452]

FUdds are the enemy. They’re not my friends. I’ve met enough of them at ranges. All FUdds can suck a dick. Which is what they do in their natural environment.

ETA: who the hell still shops at Dicks. They’re dicks. It’s what they do. Nothing they sell can’t be found elsewhere cheaper. Ridiculous.

 

[MAGA99]

FUdds are the enemy. They’re not my friends. I’ve met enough of them at ranges. All FUdds can suck a dick. Which is what they do in their natural environment.

ETA: who the hell still shops at Dicks. They’re dicks. It’s what they do. Nothing they sell can’t be found elsewhere cheaper. Ridiculous.

Fags? I mean it is still a free country, and apparently being a fag is all the rage!! Not that there’s anything wrong with that?

 

[teaser452]

Fags? I mean it is still a free country, and apparently being a fag is all the rage!! Not that there’s anything wrong with that?

Apparently they’re everywhere. Can’t watch a show without some straight up gay sex. Not that there’s anything wrong with a guy slamming his dick up your ass, plenty of women, I’m told, like it. To each his own.

no judgement. I just sit here and marvel at the world. What else is there to do?

 

[MAGA99]

Apparently they’re everywhere. Can’t watch a show without some straight up gay sex. Not that there’s anything wrong with a guy slamming his dick up your ass, plenty of women, I’m told, like it. To each his own.

no judgement. I just sit here and marvel at the world. What else is there to do?

If the TV had its way, everyone would be a black fag. And all is normal white folks have hoods in our closet.

 

[milktree]

I got into a "spirited debate" a couple weekends ago when I was at the club shooting a few rounds with a new hunting shotgun I bought. He was talking a out the deals he's getting on target loads at dicks. I spoke my piece about dicks......he spoke his about how he doesn't have a ton of money
Iving on his fixed income and has to buy wherever he can for the cheapest sales........while toting a fairly new kreighoff around.

“It’s an investment”

 

[Dr. Claw]

well like I said the timing couldn't be better to see them fail....they pulled out of firearms sales just in time for the market to surge, and then with the current situation sports are basically dead and no one is buying anything - plus with all the teams getting political chances are some will bail.....that whole karma thing...will be great if they go belly up.

 

[general disorder]

I hope they die a slow painful death. Just not in the next week or so. My favorite sneaker store in Fairhaven closed. I used to buy all my running and cross training sneakers their. This week I'm going to Dicks to try on some sneakers before I go home and order them online from elsewhere.

 

[apander]

I wonder how many Bike and Football helmets Mommy's are buying at dicks, for little 23 years old Antifas.

 

[Broc]

well like I said the timing couldn't be better to see them fail....they pulled out of firearms sales just in time for the market to surge, and then with the current situation sports are basically dead and no one is buying anything - plus with all the teams getting political chances are some will bail.....that whole karma thing...will be great if they go belly up.

Yup. And now that gyms are opening, people will stop buying workout equipment.

Basically all they will sell is overpriced running clothing and maybe golf stuff, half the store is filled with stuff with little or no demand right now.

I am also glad that FUDDs are hurting. Dicks gave them the D.