Dick's Sporting Goods - What The Heck Has Happend To Them?

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GOPerfect said:
I support those that support my bank account. I don't care any longer. Me not shopping some where is not going to put them under. Best deal is where I shop!
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I agree. You are screwed either way. I'm not traveling out of my way to shop across town at another store unless it's significantly cheaper that it's worth the extra price of gas.

It makes no sense to boycott one company and buy extra gas to get to another. The money I save for items I need goes to more ammo and other prep supplies.

Oh. And I'll carry at their store too.
 
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Cleck said:
Dick's owns F&S and it seems they're including the camping/hiking/shooting people more. That's fine with me, but F&S still seems to be the better of the two. Obviously, that segment is one small section in Dick's, while F&S is one huge store of that segment, if that makes sense. I don't know what the cause for the shift was, but I'm glad because like you said, it seemed like Dick's was going down the shitter recently until this merge. That being said, since F&S opened in Rochester, the DSG across the street seems to be declining in quality. The shooting section was junk, their stock was nil, and I just wasn't happy with it in general. They still sell the golf balls I use, so there's that. The DSG in Webster is in much better shape.
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I agree with everything you stated, except the golf part, I wouldn't be caught dead golfing. :popcorn:
 
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Cripes if you cheapskates want to save the last dollar then learn how to order stuff online? And screw NYS out of the sales tax, win-win!
 
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I'm not saying I go out of my way to GO to Dick's. I'm just saying that I'm not going out of my way to avoid Dick's. ;)

If I'm at the mall for something else and I need a box of ammo for example that's cheaper than the next store 10 miles away, I'll go there armed against their wishes to buy ammo that they don't want me to carry at their store at a later date while saving a dollar.

For the record, I never go to Dick's. They aren't close enough but I bet some of you guys wake up and fill your bellies with anti gun food, drive your anti gun car filled with anti gun gas, and drive clear across town to get ammo to stick it to them and pay for the ammo with your anti gun credit card. :ROFL:
 
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For the record, I never go to Dick's. They aren't close enough but I bet some of you guys wake up and fill your bellies with anti gun food, drive your anti gun car filled with anti gun gas, and drive clear across town to get ammo to stick it to them and pay for the ammo with your anti gun credit card. :ROFL:
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This sounds like the Grinch Who Stole Christmas.

Who hash. xD
 
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Darth said:
This sounds like the Grinch Who Stole Christmas.

Who hash. xD
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English please. We only speak English here in America. It's a new era. Trump is President now. I understood your first sentence but not your second.

Aren't you a certified teacher?
 
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Never bought a firearm from DSG. But I bought a lot of 22 ammo when the LGS were selling it for 3X's as much! And Walmart was even cheaper! It won't go bad and it won't be any cheaper in the future! So I kind of think they supported me!
 
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English please. We only speak English here in America. It's a new era. Trump is President now. I understood your first sentence but not your second.

Aren't you a certified teacher?
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Then you have a poor grasp on English literature.
 
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Glenn B said:
I used to love shopping at Dick's (not for dicks - so don't go there please). That was way back when, up in Binghamton, when as far as I know they had only one store and even when they opened a second one. Then I guess they got bought out and as the years progressed they went from being a nice outdoorsy type sporting goods and gun friendly store to a corporate conglomeration of political correctness. The first thing that sucked was when they did away with handgun sales at the store in Binghamton (heck that even may have been before they went national) and then I guess in all of them at least in NY. Then they got all sorts of non-outdoorsman sporty and into being a store for yuppies and leftists. That was probably around the same time they started selling only certain big name brands and the really good deals disappeared on off brands. Then, one day, I noticed they had almost all the exact same stuff as Modell's with the exclusion of firearms stuff at Modell's. Then the fracas over assault rifles and screwing people who had already ordered a certain rifle by cancelling the orders. Then people wanting to boycott them. Then all of a sudden (like as in very recently at least for me) they seemed to have turned around, at least regarding handgun sales and the amount of firearms they sell (at least in the store in Melville, NY). I visited that store a few weeks ago, after not being there in about 6 months to maybe even more than a year, and while they did not have what I wanted, in as much as they have a very poor selection of gun cleaning supplies and black powder equipment and supplies, they did have a huge gun counter in their renovated store. Or should I ask, is it their store? I only noticed today, when I visited again, that the outside shows the right half of the store as Dick's and the left side as Field And Stream but the inside of both sides is just one big store.

Is it like this in all of their stores now? Are they changing like this nationally? Have they merged with Field and Stream? Has Field & Stream taken over Dick's? Is it all one and the same company using two names? Is it something truly new or is it just the corporate types at Dick's realizing that the outdoorsy culture in America (shooters, hunters, fishermen), even in NYS, is alive and well and they had better appease what was their original customer base if they want to stay in business?
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I'm guessing Cabela's and Gander at their lunch? I haven't seen a Dicks or a Hermans in a million years. And that's OK because Gander is the cat's meow.
 
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Dr. Evil said:
Personally, I don't shop at Dicks, Cheaper Than Dirt, Walmart etc.. Yes, I still live in NY. Not exactly the same scenario IMHO. My wife and I had a discussion before we got married in 1991. If either of us ever cheated on one another, that would be it. We could never trust each other again. You are a more forgiving person than me. I have always said be part of the problem or part of the solution. In some small way I feel that patronizing those institutions after they "cheated" on me would make me part of the problem. YMMV.
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We are opposites apparently. I told my wife if there's no food in the fridge I'm going out to eat. Never let your man go out with full balls and hungry. There's bound to be some slut out there with sammiches.
 
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