The sporting goods retailer Sports Authority is seeking protection from creditors as it closes about 30 percent of its stores in an attempt to reorganize.
Citing consumer’s preference for online shopping the company plans on “upgrading stores and improving its website.”
Some are saying Sports Authority is in early talks with Dick’s Sporting Goods on a possible buy out.
If they merge will they be called Sporting Dicks?
Is there that big a difference between Sports Authority and Dick’s? They both seem to be selling the same overpriced stuff?
Sports Authority sucks unless you’re into one-ball sports. They have a shitty outdoors section, no guns or ammo, no tackle or hiking gear, etc.
As a kid there was a place in town that catered solely to school sports teams, they closed decades ago. That’s Sport’s Authority’s primary customer base, just like MC Sports, all one-ball team sports. However, recently MC Sports closed down that store model and moved into the mall, now with guns and ammo. I actually go into MC Sports now and again and buy stuff, I never did before.
BTW – After what Dick’s did a few years ago with Black Friday and not delivering AR-15’s sold on Black Friday after Sandy Hook, I’ll never walk into another Dick’s again. Last year they opened a Dick’s 3 miles from here, never once stepped foot inside.
A lot of stores have something that is maybe cheaper then at the next store – a loss leader that pulls you in, where you maybe make an impulse buy on something more expensive.
I cannot remember ever seeing something in the Sports Authority ads that I thought was cheap. Their sale price is always higher than other stores’ prices. I’ve always thought they have a horrible marketing plan.
How about Dick Authority?
I have lived in the states for nearly 9 years and never set foot in one. Maybe its because I live in Texas but I go to Academy for all that stuff.
I’m with Old Oaks. They’re a bunch of Dicks
Yeah, the dumbasses brought their brand and quit selling guns and ammo, they missed out on the Obama gun buying frenzy and lost a huge part of their customer base that goes to cabelas, bass pro shops, mom and pop shops….why go into a sporting goods store if you can’t ogle and handle a gun or three…
Small town USA. Never heard of the place. I have seen ads for Dicks.
Great idea name your store Dicks.
I shop at the same store my dad and his dad shopped at for sporting
goods
Can you buy a dick at dicks or a John from Johnsons or a cab from Cabelas or a dog from Wolfe’s or a good sport from Sports Authority? Inquiring minds want to know!
Who? I ran to sportsman’s Warehouse at lunch, like the scene in the Graduate where everyone in the hotel knows him. They know my name and loyalty card. Found small pistol primers 1k and 147gr XTPs.
Never seen one, much less been in one.
the local Academy Sporting Goods in my area are doing well, but then again, they all have large sections set aside for fishing & hunting.
And a Sportsmans Warehouse just opened up in my redneck of the woods. Talk about a reloading enthusiast’s dream store. Basically it’s fishin’, shootin’, huntin’ and campin’. None of the rest of the bullshit to clutter up my progress to the back of the store where all the sweet, sweet gun porn is stashed.
Sportsman’s Warehouse opened here in 2013, talk about good timing!
Old_oaks,
Hear! Hear! I remember that, and swore the same.
I was at the Slidell LA grand opening of Sportsmens Warehouse last weekened. First 3 Hundy in the door got a Fitty dollar gift card and a free hat.
I’m glad I scoped out the store a few nights before during the soft-opening. So I made a beeline for the .22 ammo which of course was restricted to a max purchase of 500 rounds per person.
Purchase #1 – 1 brick, out to the diesel Behemoth, stash shit, change shirt, glasses, jacket
Purchase #2, #3, #4 – lather, rinse, repeat
Woo-Hoo! Got my stash up to full capacity; 2000 rounds of .22LR Hollow-Point
When S. A.first opened they had an awesome gun counter. They had Desert Eagles in all calibers, 629s, rifles, shotguns; everything. Then K-mart went all anti-gun, (S.A. was a K-mart affiliate) and dropped them completely. Then, like K-mart, they tanked. Good Riddance