Dicks sporting goods

Do you still shop at Dick's Sporting goods

  • Yes

    Votes: 3 3.7%

  • No

    Votes: 79 96.3%
  • Total voters
    82
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Well if they were not going down the tube before then hopefully the newest announcement will be the nail in their coffin. They have said that the are closing out firearm sales at over 400 more stores. I have not been in a Dicks store since the quit selling AR's and AR ammo. Sad that they chose to do this .
 
Have gun-will travel said:
Well if they were not going down the tube before then hopefully the newest announcement will be the nail in their coffin. They have said that the are closing out firearm sales at over 400 more stores. I have not been in a Dicks store since the quit selling AR's and AR ammo. Sad that they chose to do this .
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Oh they did not just stop selling them. They DESTROYED existing stock.
 
Ummm....pretty sure I read they beat all of their revenue goals for the recent year?

Wall Street appeared happy with the news: Shares of Dick’s stock spiked more than 12% in premarket trading on the announcement, which came as the company reported better-than-anticipated fourth-quarter sales and earnings. Adjusted earnings for the quarter hit $1.32 a share, beating analysts’ calls for $1.22 a share. Sales ticked up 4.7% to roughly $2.61 billion, ahead of forecasts of $2.56 billion. Comp sales, meanwhile, increased 5.3%, above analysts’ estimates for a 3% increase. E-commerce sales soared a robust 15%.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/financ.../dick-sporting-goods-just-made-134319994.html


I’m not happy with their 2A stance, but don’t lie to yourself about it having cost them business.
 
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Me. said:
With the margins, they probably make more selling golf balls than the entire gun-section of the store.
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Not sure if you were guessing, joking, or actually know, but golf has HUGE margins which compliment their often huge price tags. When you see a category that can regularly run 40-75% off sales every year, there is some healthy margin there.
Golf balls and drivers take the cake. Pro V1’s aren’t priced at $4/ea because of high manufacturing or materials cost ;)

So yes, you are correct, DSG is making way more margin on golf than firearms. To take that a step farther, DSG also owns Golf Galaxy and Field & Stream. Haven’t seen them closing golf galaxy stores like they are field & streams.
 
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I voted "no" but it's not entirely true. I have bought a thing or two from dicks/f&s to see if i liked it, then returned it and bought elsewhere...
 
I wonder how they're going to handle the Field & Stream stores. Change their name to Stream? A couple of years back, the SouthPark store in Charlotte lost it's "Lodge" completely. The area became team sports stuff and there was a reduced fishing tackle area in another area than before. I had friend there. No more.
 
I voted no, but there's not one near me and I really never shopped there before.
 
I think Dick's good news is over stated and short lived. I don't think it is a great idea to reduce products that require people to come to your physical location (guns and grocery primarily) and stake your survival on things (golf equipment/supplies) that can easily be bought on Amazon or from other retailers with a good online presence and better stores (Academy and even Walmart/Target if they decide to up the competition on sports equipment).

Physical retail will continue to suffer and there are too many stores for all of them to survive.
 
pre-Obama I would shop Dick's almost exclusively since there was one right down the street from my work (UNCC area) and had a good selection of long guns and ammo. During Obama years they sold a TON of guns, then slowly the ammo started thinning out, they quit hiring competent help in the Lodge section, etc. I still would go into there to get hunting clothes and other stuff. Whenever the Troy debacle hit (around Sandy Hook - 2013 era) I noticed a distinct change in their attitude when I came into the store to buy ammo. The store catered more to the 'urban athlete' now more than anyone interested in the outdoors, and when Stack started his crap in 2016 I said no more.

I probably spent $1000-2000 a year there, but now I just spend that at their direct competitor Academy. Simple enough.
 
Nah...I did way back in the day...but an Academy opened in Winston and its prices and selection is just as good if not better. Their politics just kinda put the icing on the cake of me not needing their services.
 
always smile when i pass this sign, though.
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I had not been a major patron of Dick's "beforehand" to be sure, but I haven't darkened their threshold since. Regardless of their net gain/loss, I'm clean.
 
Once or twice in the past half dozen years or so.

I went right before Christmas because they had the best deal on what I was looking for, plus I had a coupon.
 
Given how crappy their service was at the gun counter last time I went in, LONG before this whole AR issue, I stopped shopping there years ago.
 
Didn't realize they own the Field and Stream stores as well, but decided to check the one out in Fayetteville since I was already in the parking lot. I didn't think it was possible to have prices higher than Bass Pro Shops, but they proved me wrong. Very pretty and clean store, but if I wanted to I couldn't afford to shop there. I guess they operate on a real high margin, because the parking lot is deserted every time I go by there. I wonder is F&S is going to stop selling firearms as well. Not that I care, but just curious is that leaves them an avenue to dump the guns instead on destroying them this time.
 
Tim said:
Ummm....pretty sure I read they beat all of their revenue goals for the recent year?



https://www.google.com/amp/s/financ.../dick-sporting-goods-just-made-134319994.html


I’m not happy with their 2A stance, but don’t lie to yourself about it having cost them business.
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This is true. In Jan the stock was at a 52 week high. It had been dropping but still trading up almost 80% until the market took a dump. The reality is the floor space, warehouse space and ad space was moved to more profitable high margin products. Its the same reason Walmart got out of pistol and AR ammo. They can covert the space to more profitable merchandise. I know we don't want to hear it but since Dicks dumped their AR15s and related items they have made more money. More sales and higher profits.

I don't shop at them because there isn't one near me and their prices aren't any lower than other online retailers so I choose to buy somewhere else.
 
Shooterb said:
The founder is turning over in his grave!!!!
Mom and pops fishing and hunting store starting out.
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they still are. Just that now, the fishing and hunting is on the admin side in recruitment sourcing instead of retail and the guns and rods have been replaced with Filipino children willing to make 39 cents a months to build Nikes.

believe you me, lots of hunting and drag nets to drive that operation.
 
wvsig said:
This is true. In Jan the stock was at a 52 week high. It had been dropping but still trading up almost 80% until the market took a dump. The reality is the floor space, warehouse space and ad space was moved to more profitable high margin products. Its the same reason Walmart got out of pistol and AR ammo. They can covert the space to more profitable merchandise. I know we don't want to hear it but since Dicks dumped their AR15s and related items they have made more money. More sales and higher profits.

I don't shop at them because there isn't one near me and their prices aren't any lower than other online retailers so I choose to buy somewhere else.
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Wasn’t every stock price high in January? :D

Lies, damn lies and statistics. And stock valuations. :p
 
georgel said:
I wonder how they're going to handle the Field & Stream stores. Change their name to Stream? A couple of years back, the SouthPark store in Charlotte lost it's "Lodge" completely. The area became team sports stuff and there was a reduced fishing tackle area in another area than before. I had friend there. No more.
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The one in Asheville was sold to someone else and they are selling ARs again. They’re high, but they’re selling.
 
I don't see how ours stays in business; never more than 6-10 cars in the parking lot when I go by. I never went in there much before they went stupid just because of how high their prices are. I think people who shop there regularly must just not like money LOL.
 
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