Jensen's

[wctriumph]

I stopped going after the buy out, customer service was not there, inventory selection was less and prices were higher than other shops. The last thing I bought there were some targets about two years ago, stopped in about a month or so ago and did not get a good vibe.

Sorry to see them go but someone will fill the hole they leave.

[bryjcom]

Honestly, most of the time its the rent that kills most places. They can float for a while but a small interruption in their sales ( big box stores, election etc) sometimes is the nail in the coffin.

I wondered why they took over the other two units to the west of them and thought that was a stupid move. You have to sell a lot of merch. in order to pay for that square footage.

I might swing over there and see if there is something that I'm needing.

[BPTactical]

No great loss IMO.
Always had "Meh" experiences with them.
Straw that broke the camels back with me was when I called looking for a DSA Para FAL in '05. Bob's sister answered the phone (Barb?), I asked if she could check availability and price. "I'm really busy right now and I don't have the time!" and hung up the phone.
I called back and told her if she didn't have the time to find out for me, I didn't have the time to come and spend my money there.

[Squeeze]

Wonder where Shea and .... always forget the asian guys name will end up. Been there longer than the owners/management have.

Jeff. Jeff was the absolute "go-to" guy for all NFA stuff. Definitely gonna miss all those guys and gals up there. Definitely sad news.

[thedave1164]

No great loss IMO.
Always had "Meh" experiences with them.
Straw that broke the camels back with me was when I called looking for a DSA Para FAL in '05. Bob's sister answered the phone (Barb?), I asked if she could check availability and price. "I'm really busy right now and I don't have the time!" and hung up the phone.
I called back and told her if she didn't have the time to find out for me, I didn't have the time to come and spend my money there.

That would have been Marilyn, the sister, and while she always treated me ok, she was bad for business.

I think John wanted to succeed, but he had a much different way of running things, much different from Bob.

I feel very sorry for the employees that are losing their jobs.

I read the article and it is easy to blame the box stores for your woes, but I worked a small speciality store when a big box store came into town, we did not try and compete with the loss leaders, we let them have that, pretty soon we had more business than ever cuz we could still compete on everything else and had more knowledgeable staff. People would come from miles around to visit the box store and then come to our store to purchase.

But we made sure we had merchandise to purchase, Jensens has been lacking in that for quite some time.

[newracer]

Bought my first AR and a case of ammo there when they were still on 4th street. I never had a bad experience there.

[drew890]

I stopped going after the buy out, customer service was not there, inventory selection was less and prices were higher than other shops. The last thing I bought there were some targets about two years ago, stopped in about a month or so ago and did not get a good vibe..

This pretty much mirrors my experiences there.
I would stop by every few months, but was always underwhelmed my their firearm selection and customer service.
Trying to expand their retail business into higher margin “tactical” gear was not a wise business decision given the saturation of that market segment with E-commerce.

[roberth]

Honestly, most of the time its the rent that kills most places. They can float for a while but a small interruption in their sales ( big box stores, election etc) sometimes is the nail in the coffin.

I wondered why they took over the other two units to the west of them and thought that was a stupid move. You have to sell a lot of merch. in order to pay for that square footage.

I might swing over there and see if there is something that I'm needing.

I wondered that too - I would go in on Saturdays and still there wasn't much traffic.

[Great-Kazoo]

. I'm glad he did finally sell as he seemed super stressed
.

He was super stressed because he was a wound too tight new yorker, who never assimilated to the (at the time) laid back CO lifestyle. Overtly paranoid everyone was stealing from him. If he wasn't doing it it wasn't getting done, blah, blah, blah.

I liked imitating him when he was running around and ask how he was doing

I'M TOO GODDAM BUSY TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK!

The flip side ..when he was in a good mood and life was smooth sailing. He'd just about give away a gun to get your business. But that was another time and owner.

Before they were on 4th street he had a hole in the wall on the west side of the street on cleveland, just north of 4th. You had 3 people working the counter, Bob, Mike and Pat. If there were 2 customers the third would be standing 1/2 in the shop, 1/2 on the sidewalk.

[Gman]

Bought an M1A from them many moons ago. Hate to see anyone go under, but it happens.

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