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Title: Sportsman's Warehouse closing 23 stores, selling 15 others to Canadian company
Post by: ericire12 on March 11, 2009, 10:24:08 AM

http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/sportsmans_warehouse_closing_23_stores/C41/L41/

Title: Re: Sportsman's Warehouse closing 23 stores, selling 15 others to Canadian company
Post by: MikeBjerum on March 11, 2009, 10:27:13 AM

Damn ... The three I go to are going to be gone (Sioux Falls, St. Cloud and Wichita)  :'(

I believe that this economic change will bring about what the Clinton/Gore camp wanted.  We are going to be forced to more and more of our business on the internet, and there will be little face to face relationship left.  God help us when we finish losing all our people skills!

Title: Re: Sportsman's Warehouse closing 23 stores, selling 15 others to Canadian company
Post by: elnor on March 11, 2009, 12:08:14 PM

I don't have one in my local area (Tulsa metro), but the OKC store isn't too many miles down the turnpike.

I wonder what the timeline is for that location?  I might have to get by there sometime soon...

Title: Re: Sportsman's Warehouse closing 23 stores, selling 15 others to Canadian company
Post by: Teresa Heilevang on March 11, 2009, 09:44:19 PM

Marshal ALWAYS has to stop in at the one in Wichita.. It is his "fix" every time we go to the city.. LOL

But I like it too... :'(

Title: Re: Sportsman's Warehouse closing 23 stores, selling 15 others to Canadian company
Post by: Bidah on March 12, 2009, 10:56:33 AM

The one in Helena was just put in not too long ago, and was sorely needed here.  While it is not closing, it is one to be sold to the Canadian company.  I really wonder how good it will be after that exchange...

-Bidah

Title: Re: Sportsman's Warehouse closing 23 stores, selling 15 others to Canadian company
Post by: Luv2Shoot on March 12, 2009, 11:18:48 AM

 :( :( :( That explains why on Monday when I dropped by they had very few rifles and only 6 pistols left.  :( :( :(

Title: Re: Sportsman's Warehouse closing 23 stores, selling 15 others to Canadian company
Post by: RTFM on March 12, 2009, 03:29:17 PM

he one here in my town (South Central Idaho) made it through, but for the last ~6 - 9 months has been a dust factory.
One or two boxes of ammo where you'd have had 20 or 40 of each last year this time.
 
The pistol wall is missing 2/3 of the models they use to have, and what they do have is a single model opposed to all models.
(think one GLOCK 26 compared to all GLOCK sub compacts as an example)

And not just guns and ammo. Fishing, knives, Electronics, optics all very much curtailed. The also stopped lay-a-way which I think is a bad move.
I realize people will say there is no difference between saving your money then buy out right VS a lay-a-way plan at a store but some people just like (and use) L-A-W ......

So we still have one, but it's a shell of what it use to be 1 - 2 - 3 years ago.

Title: Re: Sportsman's Warehouse closing 23 stores, selling 15 others to Canadian company
Post by: shooter32 on March 12, 2009, 05:56:59 PM

Glad the one closest to me will still be open. Ammo and reloading supplies are wiped out and real low on guns.

Title: Re: Sportsman's Warehouse closing 23 stores, selling 15 others to Canadian company
Post by: Pathfinder on March 12, 2009, 06:02:28 PM

The one here is going Canuck too, but they have had stock of lots of thigs - except ammo and reloading supplies, just like everyone else.

I walked into WW the other day, they had just received a case of Winchester white box 9mm - so now I am 200 rounds richer (? ? ? )

Title: Re: Sportsman's Warehouse closing 23 stores, selling 15 others to Canadian company
Post by: TAB on March 12, 2009, 06:34:25 PM

We have one not to far from me.  I've been in there once.  i will never go back.   They had crapy help and crapy prices( you know its bad when the mom and pop shops are beatting them by 25%)   

The one thing I will not stand for is bad help.  Price means very little if you can't get the help you need.

Title: Re: Sportsman's Warehouse closing 23 stores, selling 15 others to Canadian company
Post by: tt11758 on March 13, 2009, 02:33:42 PM

Quote from: TAB on March 12, 2009, 06:34:25 PM

We have one not to far from me.  I've been in there once.  i will never go back.   They had crapy help and crapy prices( you know its bad when the mom and pop shops are beatting them by 25%)   

The one thing I will not stand for is bad help.  Price means very little if you can't get the help you need.

TAB, never have you and I been more on the same page!!  One of us should be VERY afraid.  LOL