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I do, but when it comes to that type of clothing or gear, nothing beats trying it on. | |||
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Believe it or not, thanks to the strong job market and low cost of living, many Ohioans can actually afford to travel outside of the cornfield now and then.  I mean are people only supposed to buy their clothes/boots/pack/gear for Montana Elk hunts once they actually get to Montana? Don't buy your snowboard/bindings/boots until you actually get to Colorado? So much for breaking in your gear before putting some real miles on it... I have some high end gear that I have used all over the country and in central America. I didn't buy any of it at Dicks and don't intend to start now even if they open a store with a new name, but it would have been nice to try on more stuff in person. Most I had to buy online and return what didn't fit. Eventually I figured out which brands work for me and have stuck with them since. | |||
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This is the reason I suspect they'll fail. REI is pretty woke too. But, when you go there and talk to their folks, they (usually) know what they're talking about. I stopped going to Dick's even before they sh*t on the firearms community because most of their employees didn't know squat about their gear. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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I liken it to a runner shoe store. I find most of the salespeople to be very familiar with brand and type of running shoe. However, if I went to Dick's or Sport Chalet, I wouldn't expend the mouth breather to have a clue about differences or experiences with Saucony, Brooks, Altra, Hoka, Salomon, Asics, etc. As for REI, I seldom purchase there, but when I do it's because I'm willing to pay extra for quality and expert input (backpack fitting etc). P229 | |||
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Wow, you spoke with a Dick's employee? I could never actually find one, and when I did, they were as helpful as Wally World staff. | |||
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There's a reason why they went out of business 5 years ago. They're example #1 of trying to sell all things, to all people. GI Joe's in the PacNW was another large format retailer who's roots was in the outdoors but, failed to maintain focus with floor staff and vision. If you get too specialized and inflexible, you end up like Mountain Gear, who announced they're closing up at the end of 2020. An older generation collected REI catalogs, if you're gen-X'er, you had Mountain Gear catalogs, drooling over mountaineering gear and clothing. | |||
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The dicks at Dick's will fail like they usually do...might have a profitable quarter or two. | |||
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I'll be going back to shop at Dick's...when they have their 'Going Out Of Business Liquidation Sale'. And even then I probably won't find anything to buy. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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Galyan's at Easton was one of my favorite stores ever. I lived close by for a while but would travel the 2 hours after I moved. After Dick's bought it was only a shell of the store it used to be.
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I gave up on both Dicks and REI over their anti-gun baloney. They'd have to give it away for free for me to go there. | |||
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Dicks was founded in my old hometown. For many years, It WAS the store for guns & ammo. I've had many great purchases there. (they had a wonderful used handgun display case at one time many years ago) Then they stopped selling handguns. (I frequented the store less) Then they went all PC on "assault rifles" and non hunting style guns. (I stopped shopping there) Then one evening as I prepared to reload a couple hundred rounds of pistol ammo for a USPSA match the next day, I realized I needed to buy primers. I called all the Dick's stores in the valley. One store had primers so off I went in the truck to get some primers. When I got to the store, they didn't have a price/bar code label on the outside of the box, (1000 primers) only on the individual cards. (100 primers) The young teen aged female sales clerk hit the bar code with the laser scanner and the sales register didn't recognize the bar code on the outside of the 1000 count box. She pulled out one of the cards of 100 primers and scanned that. The register recognized that bar code. I explained to the young woman that she was making an error and that price was for 100 primers, not 1000. She looked at me with a puzzled look and finished the transaction. Cost of 1000 primers? Yup, you guessed it. 1/10 the price of what a 1000 count brick should have cost. I took them out to the truck, went back inside and bought every brick on the shelf and checked out at the same register as the first purchase. I haven't returned to a Dick's store since. I hope the new venture fails as well as the present Dick's and Field & Stream operations. They have abandoned the core group of customers that made that Family business formerly successful. NRA Benefactor Life Member NRA Instructor USPSA Chief Range Officer | |||
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Dicks..... They can go eat a bag of themselves. | |||
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You will never catch me going into a Dick store. Let them stick it in their own ass. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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agreed. I think ours survives on the uniforms and selling equipment to the schools. As far as fashion they seem to get the cheaper shoes and athletic wear that have very little fashion incorperated | |||
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I guess they got tired of the long lines waiting to get into the stores. You know how hard it was to type that without laughing?"Even if the world were perfect it wouldn't be." ... Yogi Berra | |||
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Sounds like there new retail-model will appeal to yuppies, and Fudds. I penciled Dick's out several years ago, and have no plans to return. | |||
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Double-tap. | |||
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