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Stupid knee jerking Dick's and Ed Stack at it again.
Didn't those turds stop selling modern sporting rifle after Sandy hook and screw (cancel) the black Friday Troy rifles orders before?
Then they quietly sell those msr again. Now they are flipping their business again to no msr.
https://www.google.com/amp/abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/News/dicks-sporting-goods-ceo-company-longer-sell-assault/story%3fid=53403284
I haven't set foot in one since their first "ban". Don't miss it, fuck 'em.
AirbornePathogen
02-28-2018, 17:45
I haven't set foot in one since their first "ban". Don't miss it, fuck 'em.
Jim summed it up rather nicely.
Gcompact30
02-28-2018, 19:04
If people stop shopping there and they start to loose money, they will change the stupid ASS policy....
I remember the 1st time they quit selling black rifles some folks got some too good deals, like half off. I haven't spent any money since. Did the bring them back? When I heard they were dropping them, I was confused. Still am. Are guns on sale again?
If people stop shopping there and they start to loose money, they will change the stupid ASS policy....
No they won't. I bet their gun sales is a tiny tiny little fleck on their sales charts. They also own Golf Galaxy and who knows what else.
Shooter45
02-28-2018, 19:46
Another good reason for me to stay home and shop online for better pricing, or just buy it here from other members!
Yeah, no big hit for them, plus they quit selling handguns a long time ago as well. Friends don’t let friends buy anything at Dick’s.
How did the policy change at JAX five years ago impact them? I don’t have a store near me so I’ve never been in one.
How did the policy change at JAX five years ago impact them? I don’t have a store near me so I’ve never been in one.
I’ve kinda been wondering that lately as well. I used to love that store. I haven’t stepped inside their stores since they chose to stop selling AR’s.
electronman1729
02-28-2018, 20:31
Screw them. I stopped shopping there after I was Id'd for trying to buy rail covers.
They are still in business? [Shake]
If people stop shopping there and they start to loose money, they will change the stupid ASS policy....
I remember the 1st time they quit selling black rifles some folks got some too good deals, like half off. I haven't spent any money since. Did the bring them back? When I heard they were dropping them, I was confused. Still am. Are guns on sale again?
No they won't. I bet their gun sales is a tiny tiny little fleck on their sales charts. They also own Golf Galaxy and who knows what else.
They are still in business? [Shake]
They are enjoying the bull market like all others whIle it lasts.
Soon they will have to privatize their company like Dell.
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GilpinGuy
03-01-2018, 06:27
LOL^^
Jeffrey Lebowski
03-01-2018, 06:47
They are enjoying the bull market like all others whIle it lasts.
Soon they will have to privatize their company like Dell.
I’d be shocked. $0.02
If they go down, it’ll be the Sports Authority issue (sales vs. massive overhead) vs. anything to do with guns.
Basically agreeing with Opie.
I’m pretty neutral on Dick’s, personally. Honestly never think of them for anything firearms, I’d certainly sooner shop locally (edit: or online) for anything like that. This is true for everything: In all categories, you’d be better shopping at a specific shop. It is big box, and therefore sort of ridiculous especially for guns, bicycles, fishing, snowboard, hunting, camping, etc, etc. But it isn’t horrible for sporting goods like bats/balls in a pinch, or equipment (treadmills), or for “athleisure” clothes or shoes on sale. Even for these, you can do better, but they aren’t quite as silly as buying guns at a place with a basketball for a logo.
BPTactical
03-01-2018, 08:06
Soccer mommy store
Rooskibar03
03-01-2018, 08:13
Where will people buy their crappy Bushmasters now?
Great-Kazoo
03-01-2018, 08:43
Surprised that many people liked Dick.
JohnnyEgo
03-01-2018, 08:49
Dicks didn't stop selling ARs after Sandy Hook. They just stopped carrying them in their main stores, but kept selling them at their more outdoor-oriented Field & Stream stores. Because they still wanted the money, just not the publicity. Now that the AR market has softened, this was an easy time to make the decision. But it wasn't based on moral principals any more then the last time. Just a business decision about how to minimize risk and get some free marketing.
I haven't been in Dicks for a long time. Won't be going back.
Martinjmpr
03-01-2018, 10:04
Seems like an opportunity for a LGS.
Here's a slogan: "Buy from us. We're not Dicks's."
Seems like an opportunity for a LGS.
Here's a slogan: "Buy from us. We're not Dicks's."
[ROFL1]
Where will people buy their crappy Bushmasters now?
Lol
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I’d be shocked. $0.02
If they go down, it’ll be the Sports Authority issue (sales vs. massive overhead) vs. anything to do with guns.
Basically agreeing with Opie.
I’m pretty neutral on Dick’s, personally. Honestly never think of them for anything firearms, I’d certainly sooner shop locally (edit: or online) for anything like that. This is true for everything: In all categories, you’d be better shopping at a specific shop. It is big box, and therefore sort of ridiculous especially for guns, bicycles, fishing, snowboard, hunting, camping, etc, etc. But it isn’t horrible for sporting goods like bats/balls in a pinch, or equipment (treadmills), or for “athleisure” clothes or shoes on sale. Even for these, you can do better, but they aren’t quite as silly as buying guns at a place with a basketball for a logo.
I totally agree with gun sales will not dent their bottom line. Top line during panic buying would make some different on revenue.
They have history of making knee jerk business decision. Not just on quit selling msr, but on golf and UA as well.
They also have labor issues (unpaid lunch and no break) for employees, and it has crappy images.
They are constantly losing mkt on specialities and generic/general sporting goods (even their appreals). Looking at their sales per sq-ft for yrs, it looks like they are leaning towards to be large big5.
Now if big5 and Dicks merge (like sears and kmart), it would be "Big Dicks."
I hear that Ellen Degeneres likes Dicks now.....
I gave up on these cheese dick fucktards after sandy hook. These limpdick cocksuckers won’t see a dime of my money.
Jeffrey Lebowski
03-02-2018, 07:02
I totally agree with gun sales will not dent their bottom line. Top line during panic buying would make some different on revenue.
They have history of making knee jerk business decision. Not just on quit selling msr, but on golf and UA as well.
They also have labor issues (unpaid lunch and no break) for employees, and it has crappy images.
They are constantly losing mkt on specialities and generic/general sporting goods (even their appreals). Looking at their sales per sq-ft for yrs, it looks like they are leaning towards to be large big5.
Now if big5 and Dicks merge (like sears and kmart), it would be "Big Dicks."
Yep, I mostly agree. There is nothing they sell that you can’t find a better or cheaper version of elsewhere. But they are convenient - that is their angle. I wouldn’t be shocked to see them go away, but I also don’t hold any ill will to them.
I don’t shop there much at all, but I also don’t mind strolling through. I think I got an avalanche hat there a few months back - before that, I honestly couldn’t remember. Big5 is long gone in Golden, but they were like the discount version.
Honey Badger282.8
03-02-2018, 08:47
REI just jumped on the bandwagon by cancelling orders from companies that are part of the same conglomerate as a firearm related business.
Great-Kazoo
03-02-2018, 08:58
REI just jumped on the bandwagon by cancelling orders from companies that are part of the same conglomerate as a firearm related business.
Like REI was anywhere near a 2A friendly place.
hurley842002
03-02-2018, 09:05
Like REI was anywhere near a 2A friendly place.Yup, they've been liberal, granola, tree huggers for years.
L.L. Bean just jumped on the no rifles for anyone under 21 bandwagon.
Anyone need an employee?
http://tribunist.com/news/dicks-employee-pens-epic-resignation-letter-in-response-to-new-firearms-policies/
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Anyone need an employee?
Good on him to take a stand.
Singlestack
03-02-2018, 12:47
I live near 2 Jax stores (Lafayette), and my sense is they are just as busy as before the 2013 stupidity, maybe even more so. Not surprising at all, since a lot of Boulderites have moved to east Boulder County (Erie, Lafayette, Louisville) in the last few years because of stupid expensive houses (avg price over $1M now) and insane rents. Even though I used to buy a ton of stuff at Jax, they don't miss me and I don't miss them.
Aloha_Shooter
03-02-2018, 16:40
https://youtu.be/M6xyV68KN5A?t=122
What are we made of?
I haven't set foot in one since their first "ban". Don't miss it, fuck 'em.
This.
Honey Badger282.8
03-02-2018, 21:45
Like REI was anywhere near a 2A friendly place.
True but they aren't targeting gun companies, they're targeting outdoor companies tangentially related to firearms companies. Camel Bak and Giro helmets have nothing to do with anything 2A.
Does Dick's flip-flopping make them a floppy Dick?
kidicarus13
08-20-2019, 22:14
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/20/business/dicks-sporting-goods-gun-sales/index.html
Dick's Sporting Goods considered stopping all gun sales in early 2018. A shooting at the high school in Parkland, Florida, had killed 17 people. And the company was shocked into action.
"We did have a conversation about that," CEO Ed Stack?told CNN Business?earlier this year. "At the time we felt it was a part of our DNA and we should stay in it. So many people in the country are law-abiding citizens who use firearms to hunt, to use from a recreation standpoint. We didn't think it was right to exit the business completely."
That could be changing. Dick's, one of the country's biggest gun retailers, has been quietly testing the water on whether to pull out entirely from what it calls the "hunt" business, including firearms. An announcement with the results of the test is expected Thursday, when it is set to report quarterly results.
America is again debating gun control after a recent wave of shootings ? including one on August 3 at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas. The debate has drawn new scrutiny on the legal sale of guns.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/20/business/dicks-sporting-goods-gun-sales/index.html
Dick's Sporting Goods considered stopping all gun sales in early 2018. A shooting at the high school in Parkland, Florida, had killed 17 people. And the company was shocked into action.
"We did have a conversation about that," CEO Ed Stack?told CNN Business?earlier this year. "At the time we felt it was a part of our DNA and we should stay in it. So many people in the country are law-abiding citizens who use firearms to hunt, to use from a recreation standpoint. We didn't think it was right to exit the business completely."
That could be changing. Dick's, one of the country's biggest gun retailers, has been quietly testing the water on whether to pull out entirely from what it calls the "hunt" business, including firearms. An announcement with the results of the test is expected Thursday, when it is set to report quarterly results.
America is again debating gun control after a recent wave of shootings ? including one on August 3 at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas. The debate has drawn new scrutiny on the legal sale of guns.
I hope they miss.
Earnings on Thu, Aug 22
DKS Dick's Sporting Goods Inc Before Market Open 1.2 EPS
Dick's, one of the country's biggest gun retailers, has been quietly testing the water on whether to pull out
I chuckled a bit. Talking about pulling out when referring to dicks is just plain comical.
ChickNorris
08-21-2019, 06:40
Glad someone said it.
Dick's is again using tragedy for marketing attention. You have to respect the pattern. It's disgusting. They've got the MSM running with the drama that Dick's will know tomorrow how it's last change in selling guns has affected their bottom line and whether they will pull out of firearms entirely.
I think they already know the numbers and they'll come out tomorrow and state that firearms don't make up any significant sales for them. Anybody that cares about 2A is already avoiding them. Then hopefully they'll exit the firearms market entirely. That doesn't mean that they won't speak up anymore after the next nut uses a gun. I could totally see them virtue signalling/speaking up that it wasn't them and that they're part of the solution.
Dick's should just change their name to Richard's to avoid confusing anyone.
I guess dks sold more baseball stuff and foozball stuff than we thought...
Oh yeah and yoga pants...
Lots of places beating analysts estimate by 2 to 3% ish.
Maybe analyst did not factor in the increase in price index indicies as properly?
After tariff hits, I hope some analysts factor in those properly and adjust the EPS nominal and real.
whitewalrus
08-22-2019, 10:15
I guess dks sold more baseball stuff and foozball stuff than we thought...
Oh yeah and yoga pants...
Lots of places beating analysts estimate by 2 to 3% ish.
Maybe analyst did not factor in the increase in price index indicies as properly?
After tariff hits, I hope some analysts factor in those properly and adjust the EPS nominal and real.
Markups on firearms aren?t that much anyway. It?s all the cleaning kits and such that go along with the gun where the markup is.
Markup on clothing is typically pretty high, and with yoga pants and other athletic wear become the style of today, I?m sure they are doing well.
Waiting for Walmart to get out of the gun business as their CEO has released statements calling for more gun control.
kidicarus13
10-07-2019, 22:29
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dicks-sporting-goods-ceo-says-company-destroyed-5-million-worth-of-weapons
GilpinGuy
10-07-2019, 23:31
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dicks-sporting-goods-ceo-says-company-destroyed-5-million-worth-of-weapons
Headline:
Dick's Sporting Goods CEO says company destroyed $5 million worth of weapons
Later in the story:
It was not clear how much destroying the weapons cost the sporting goods giant.
Geniuses. Excellent business plan.
Maybe it happened, but I don't remember a single retailer destroying compact florescent light bulbs once people decided they were bad for the environment, which effects everyone (and bad for lighting). Think stores in New York publicly destroyed large drink cups?
If guns are so bad, it's not a secret and people are just finding out (like black market THC vaping that has killed a few people, but they are still blaming Juul). They've always been bad and the decades of selling them should weigh much more heavily than the comparative handful that were destroyed. Politics; nearly always dumb and unhelpful.
Maybe it happened, but I don't remember a single retailer destroying compact florescent light bulbs once people decided they were bad for the environment, which effects everyone (and bad for lighting).
That would let the mercury out of the bulbs, so I don't think that would help the environment either.
Virtue signalling apparently has a higher priority than their fiduciary duty. This sounds like an investor lawsuit in the making.
As to the vaping deaths, it's being reported that many could be related to THC products, but some are not. This is one of the things that makes me skeptical about new fads. We have many hundreds of years worth of experience with tobacco and a good understanding of the issues around it. Then this new thing comes along that creates much smaller particles that go deeper into lung tissue using god knows what ingredients and it's deemed as "safer" without much in the way of evidence.
I hope that Dick's fully exits the firearms business and is no longer able to use every shooting as an anti-gun marketing push.
From what I understand about the vaping thing, is that ALL cases were related to THC products where the oil was not properly made (black market) and has nothing at all to do with tobacco. We should probably start a thread about it, but it's not like this one is going anywhere either.
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/severe-lung-disease.html
Among 578 patients with information on substances used in e-cigarette, or vaping, products in the 3 months prior to symptom onset:
-About 78% reported using THC-containing products; 37% reported exclusive use of THC-containing products.
-About 58% reported using nicotine-containing products; 17% reported exclusive use of nicotine-containing products.
I haven't set foot in one since their first "ban". Don't miss it, fuck 'em.
^^^THIS
Wonder if any shareholder has the balls to sue the CEO?
https://gunfreezone.net/i-wonder-if-he-is-going-to-get-sued/
O2
kidicarus13
03-16-2020, 09:26
The company reported $2.6 billion in net sales for the fourth quarter, up by 4.7% year over year. Its stock jumped by 13% after the announcement.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/10/business/dicks-sporting-goods-remove-guns-from-440-stores/index.html
The company reported $2.6 billion in net sales for the fourth quarter, up by 4.7% year over year. Its stock jumped by 13% after the announcement.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/10/business/dicks-sporting-goods-remove-guns-from-440-stores/index.html
So XMas was good this year? All retail businesses should show growth in the 4th Qtr. Look at the other 3 Qtrs of the year, they didn’t look nearly as well.
I'm tellin' ya'. They regularly do this virtue signalling to gain favor with a certain market. IF THEY WERE SERIOUS ABOUT GETTING OUT OF THE GUN BUSINESS, THEY WOULD HAVE DONE IT ALREADY.
Dick's 'getting out of the gun business' is like the old Braniff Airlines going out of business.
(Yes, I know, I'm dating myself.)
((...or anyone else that understands that statement))
Dick's 'getting out of the gun business' is like the old Braniff Airlines going out of business.
(Yes, I know, I'm dating myself.)
YOU remember BRANIFF ?!? [LOL]
One of the best comments I heard about Braniff back in the day?
"I think Braniff found a way to make money by going out of business."
lpgasman
03-16-2020, 20:46
Dick's 'getting out of the gun business' is like the old Braniff Airlines going out of business.
Didn't soth park show a braniff plane at the end of their program?
Dick's 'getting out of the gun business' is like the old Braniff Airlines going out of business.
Didn't soth park show a braniff plane at the end of their program?
http://youtu.be/J7HIxqDpJ0Q
lpgasman
03-16-2020, 23:42
http://youtu.be/J7HIxqDpJ0Q
I thought so, and Chris Farley taking off his shirt gets me excited.
Still, NO THANKS. :)
https://seekingalpha.com/amp/article/4332179-dicks-sporting-goods-fire-sale-on-now-8_1x-p-e
wctriumph
03-17-2020, 13:24
I haven't set foot in one since their first "ban". Don't miss it, fuck 'em.
Exactly right, didn?t really like going in there anywa.
Have never been back since they did it either.
I've never shopped at Dick's. I hate them for what they did to Galyan's.
buckshotbarlow
03-19-2020, 18:48
I've never shopped at Dick's. I hate them for what they did to Galyan's.
winner winner chicken dinner!
Closed at 16.81. Lost all the 11year gain.
16.81 USD −1.87 (10.01%)
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https://www.google.com/search?q=dks&tbm=fin#scso=_fjh1XvfSNIaGtQbl4q9Y1:0
If they SOLD FIREARMS, they could have operate their business as essential in many states.
That's a shame... :)
battlemidget
03-26-2020, 13:23
I think Dicks main customer is the subaru crowd, which is stuck in their apartments and condos.
Circuits
03-26-2020, 19:50
I drive a subie because they rock for Colorado conditions. But I'm not a Dick's.
battlemidget
03-26-2020, 20:33
I drive a subie because they rock for Colorado conditions. But I'm not a Dick's.
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