Dick’s will destroy assault-style guns it yanked off shelves

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Can't help but wonder if those firearms will be "destroyed" by slipping them out the back door of the warehouse with a big discount to various firearms wholesalers / distributors. Just doesn't make much business sense when they could be disposed of and still generate some income instead of their investment in them being a total loss.
 
22250Rem said:
Can't help but wonder if those firearms will be "destroyed" by slipping them out the back door of the warehouse with a big discount to various firearms wholesalers / distributors. Just doesn't make much business sense when they could be disposed of and still generate some income instead of their investment in them being a total loss.
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Political grandstanding and sense don't usually work well together, in the first place. I have to wonder if Dick's had already liquidated these items before the announcement, and their "destruction" will involve 2 open-box "tactical" slings...
 
I haven’t bought much from them recently. Pre 2008 it was the only place where I could find Blazer .22 ammo, and I’ve bought a bunch of free weights from them over the years when it was on sale but their hunting/fishing stuff is pretty much always overpriced so I only bought that stuff there when it was an emergency.

Now my family did spend a lot of money there on shoes. It’s hard to beat Dick’s for cleats and for their selection on general running/gym shoes. My wife and I are having a bit of a disagreement on that right now. I’m wanting to right them off completely, my wife on the other hand always loved Dick’s (hehehe) and doesn’t thing anyone else compares for things like her gym clothing and kids shoes.
 
db_tanker wrote:
I still can't fathom how a person ... can think that this will get them extra sales in some manner? Seeing as the people they are pandering to are generally not too outdoorsy or sports-orientated? Am I not seeing it?
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Actually, you answered your own question.

Dicks and their affiliates largely sells shoes and sporting fashions, not guns or hunting gear. Based on where their stores are located, it is pretty clear their target market is wealthy suburbanites who are outfitting their children for team sports and themselves to look the part of armchair competitors. Thus, they can safely remove a few guns from their shelves and generate goodwill with the soccer mom (and soccer dad) crowd by suggesting that their children are somehow safer because of these few guns disappearing.
 
G'dale Mike wrote:
Can’t understand how people in business would do something so insulting to the majority of your customers?
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Get on the Dick's website (the corporate one, not the e-commerce one) and read their annual reports for the last couple of years. You are gravely mistaken if you think gun buyers constitute a significant portion - much less the majority - of Dick's customer base.

To the extent Dick's was going to suffer any repercussions from political policy decisions regarding guns, they suffered it more than a year ago when they abandoned the sale of ARs in their mainline stores. Dick's will not suffer any significant loss from this decision and to the extent that it is approved of by people concerned with gun violence they may actually get a public relations bump out of it.
 
jmace57 wrote:
I am pretty sure I read that their revenue is down noticeably since this announcement.
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Attendance at major league baseball games is down significantly this spring. Wonder if Dick's announcement had anything to do with that? Of course not. Similarly, you can't attribute Dick's slowdown in sales to their decision on firearms without looking at all the factors in play. Sales are down across the entire sector of big box sporting goods stores, not just Dick's.

And the largest contributor to that slowdown has been a significantly colder and wetter Spring than usual. It has hammered the revenues of pretty much all industries that rely on people getting out in the weather to spend their money.
 
That's no skin off my elbow. It's their bottom line that it will affect. I've only been in one Dick's store because they are all a long drive from me. I needed a break from driving and took it by walking around Dick's. It was basically a huge overpriced athletic clothing and equipment store with a small firearms and ammo selection. I feel no need to ever enter another of their stores.
 
hdwhit said:
Attendance at major league baseball games is down significantly this spring. Wonder if Dick's announcement had anything to do with that? Of course not. Similarly, you can't attribute Dick's slowdown in sales to their decision on firearms without looking at all the factors in play. Sales are down across the entire sector of big box sporting goods stores, not just Dick's.

And the largest contributor to that slowdown has been a significantly colder and wetter Spring than usual. It has hammered the revenues of pretty much all industries that rely on people getting out in the weather to spend their money.
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Agreed, with the way winter is sticking around in most of the country, I'm not surprised that a company that gets a lot of revenue from outdoors sporting equipment is having slow sales right now. I work in commercial food manufacturing and it's no surprise to us that sales of hot dog buns, hamburger buns, and potato salads are doing horrible right now. It'll turn around by Memorial Day.
 
I want to see the video, with the CEO present, when these “assault style” rifles are destroyed. Otherwise, I’m calling BS. And if he is there, and they do destroy them, I’ll just call them morons.
 
Quite a few years ago I would go into the local Dicks and buy the marked down "clearance" items after hunting season/Christmas. Game cameras and orange hunting gear for 75% off was a good deal so I helped my self to it. Like buying clothing at fire sale prices at Filenes. After their anti gun stance started I have not even entered their doorway again. Even when a friend told me that they had buckets of golden bullets at the height of the ammo shortage I did not go. I just showed him my two 50 CAL ammo cans full of loose .22 rounds and stated none of mine was that crap made by Remmington they were trying to pawn off for gouger prices either.:thumbup: IMHO the name says it all----they are DICKS!
 
Ok so I won’t shop at dicks anymore. I’ll do my best to support local businesses, especially for guns.
 
As I have to travel quit a distance to get to stores like "DICKS ", I get to save some gas money. I personally won't go there, and when they announced this stupidity, I used their website for my commentary mentioning that under no circumstance would I ever patronize their business,
 
Jackal: Dicks pricing has always turned me off. They are always right up near MSRP.
I take MSRP not as Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price but as a guide for maximum suggested retail price -- anything near ,equal or over is maximum selfish ripoff. On guns, the real money is ammunition. I have bought several times the money value of ammo than I have paid for my guns. A smart company would sell guns at wholesale for the ammo sales.
As far as these self-righteous posturings go, it reminds me of the Dries back when we had local option prohibition of alcohol 1953-1968. It won't impact bad behavior by bad people. Restrictions on legal alcohol did have an impact on alcohol violence that I saw; it made it worse. I expect the same from this anti gun crusade.

I needed extra ammo for a military match. Dicks had Tula 7.62x39 at $15 a box. WalMart had the Tula 7.62x39 at $10 a box. Why shop at Dicks? As a kid, in my neighborhood, we bought our camping, fishing, hunting gear at the Army/Navy surplus store. Dicks "labels out, labels out" logo fetish just rubbed me the wrong way anyway.
 
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I have to go against the grain just a little bit here, while I do agree with everything I’ve read in this thread so far, I must admit, this is only logical for them.

Think about it, they pulled them off the shelves because they apparently decided that Americans that can pass a FBI background checks cannot be trusted with these guns, right? Now, logically that would to be true no matter who the law abiding citizens bought them from. So the only way to ensure that these guns didn’t go to law abiding Americans hands is to destroy them.

The obvious next logical problem is that they still sell other guns to law abiding Americans who can pass background checks. They will also still sell the ammunition for these same “assault rifles” to ANY adult American.


To pull them off the shelf to begin with is stupid, to then allow them to be sold by someone else to the same cliental (potentialy) is also stupid. But to pull them off the shelves and destroy them is at least consistent stupidity, if you will. But like I said, that consistency still falls short.
 
They haven't been in my area very long-there are a handful of stores that I can think of in my area. But they'll die soon, because they have to compete with Academy here. Academy has a huge following and has stores everywhere. Won't be enough market share for [that other retail chain].
 
I think as a relatively conservative group gun owners tend to be a bit stubborn and have long memories when they think they've been offended.

Case in point, myself personally, and lots of others from what I read, will never spend another penny with Cheaper Than Dirt, or Treats You Like Dirt as I like to think of them.

Dick's may be making brownie points with certain groups, but others have long memories.
 
Dumb. Dicks can do what it wants but this pandering is ridiculous.
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Yep.. I agree... Not that I bought a l lot of sporting goods at Dick's prior to this, although I have bought some shoes, baseball stuff and ammo there before, but after this nonsensical charade there is NOTHING that they have that I can't easily find somewhere else... Pander to one group at the risk of alienating another....

There may not be loyalty anymore but gun people can hold a grudge just about forever.
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LOL... isn't that the truth...
 
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