Dick's Sporting Goods

[Allen]

Still living up to it's name.

THE place to go for all your golf balls, tennis balls and sports underwear needs.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/17...-shooting.html

[S.A. Boggs]

Shouldn't this have read "goof balls" instead. If this is a publically traded stock and I owned any I would sell due to one thing. The management chose to destroy returnable stock to make a negligible political statement that will soon be forgotten. Profit was taken from the stockholder for what, a foolish decision and this is how this should be looked at.
Sam

[clintonhater]

Still living up to it's name.

What's its name should be: ATHLETIC Goods. Better yet: Yuppie Goods.

But destroying those guns is a GOOD thing--it means the manufacturers can make more of them, rather than take back old stock!

[Clark Howard]

Simple dem posturing.

[leftyo]

all they've done is throw away money, and cost themselves customers. think ive been in one two times, wasnt impressed, so no big loss as far as a retailer goes.

[blackhawknj]

On my Boycott List. The LGSs meet all my needs.

[macPA]

why do they even have their field and stream division? oh ya will be just stream soon

[dryheat]

I went into one once. All polyester running shorts and sneakers. Thousands of sneakers. Oops, I mean running shoes.

[JB White]

A couple of weeks ago I went to a Dick's store in Dupage County IL to check out 10/22's. They were on sale below $200. No jacked up Cook/Chicago consumer sales taxes and no Cook County "violence taxes" on arms and ammunition. ($25 per firearm and 15c per round on ammunition). The employees were the gun savvy types, so the policy comes strictly from Dick's corporate so far as I can tell. They took another 20% off if I signed up for a Dick's credit card. That OTD price was hard to beat so I took it.

The bad: Don't take the extra money off by putting it all on the point of sale CC. Their APR is 29%! Talk about juice loans.... Shredded the CC as soon as it arrived.
Also, do not give them a primary e-mail address. In spite of what they might tell you, your inbox will get clogged with tons of Dick's sales spam. Use a junk account address.


As already mentioned, corporate PC posturing is costing them. Not us or the gunmakers. Would any of us here actually go to a Dick's store when in the market for another AR-type rifle? Who are they alienating money-wise? Looking at it from a bean counter's perspective, it's cheap advertising to announce their destruction opposed to standing tall against a boycott from their main preppie consumer base. It's all marketing strategy and write-offs.
I'm not condoning their actions. I just don't see it as being anything major in the grand scheme of things. It's simply an inventory shift until things cool down again.

[Vern Humphrey]

What's its name should be: ATHLETIC Goods. Better yet: Yuppie Goods.

But destroying those guns is a GOOD thing--it means the manufacturers can make more of them, rather than take back old stock!

Nope. It's name should be "Dicks R Us."