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Long ago, in The Time Before, Dick’s Sporting Goods sold guns. Lots of guns. And then the son of the founder decided to get woke and stop selling guns at all but a handful of the chain’s stores. After being hailed as a progressive, forward-thinking responsible retailer, the company now admits that going woke and kicking guns to the curb cost it (and its shareholders) $250 million in revenue.

That’s probably an understatement. When the pandemic hit, gun stores saw lines of people waiting to buy firearms, ammo, and accessories. Meanwhile, over at No-Guns Dick’s, corporate was furloughing employees as fast as their printers could pump out the pink slips. They sent 40,000 employees home when sales fell off a cliff and gun retailers were doing land office business.

> Long ago, in The Time Before, Dick’s Sporting Goods sold guns. Lots of guns. And then the son of the founder decided to get woke and stop selling guns at all but a handful of the chain’s stores. After being hailed as a progressive, forward-thinking responsible retailer, the company now admits that going woke and kicking guns to the curb cost it (and its shareholders) $250 million in revenue. > That’s probably an understatement. When the pandemic hit, gun stores saw lines of people waiting to buy firearms, ammo, and accessories. Meanwhile, over at No-Guns Dick’s, corporate was furloughing employees as fast as their printers could pump out the pink slips. They sent 40,000 employees home when sales fell off a cliff and gun retailers were doing land office business.

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[–] • 12 pts

I stopped shopping at Dick Heads

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Same here. The remaining choices are Turners and Big 5.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

What about REI

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Forgot about REI. I usually think of them as expensive plus they don't have anything to do with firearms.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

We have a Bass Pro/Cabela's that has a few selections.

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Their prices were shit compared to Sportsman's, I never shopped there to begin with.

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Sportman's is great but i spend way too much money there.

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Yup, "I'm just gonna grab some lures"... 2 hrs later I'm leaving with a 338 lapua and a full shopping cart after dropping $4,500... They practically roll out red carpet for me now when I arrive.

Edit: true story

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Same here. I’ll never spend a dime there again.

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The ignorant gun control 'safety' morons still will not admit that the criminal does not buy their firearms from retail stores and the failed gun control absurdity has never stopped the criminal from buying them in the dark alley. Dicks fits my Not One Dime policy.

[–] [deleted] • 5 pts

Not about gun control all about slowly disarming the population

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yeah, i expect some "grandfather" laws to be tried, similar to the automatic gun ones; eventually all legal ones end up in the hands of collectors or destroyed.

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Do you know how long that would take? There’s like 400 million guns in the country.

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Who cares if dicks don’t sell guns? It just makes it easier for the little guy gun store to compete tbh.

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It's a spic and nigger problem.. replace every spic and nigger with a Japanese person and America would be the safest most productive country on the planet

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Usually the criminals just get their guns handed to them by the FBI.

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$250M is like 2-3% of their revenue and it's growth looks OK, so maybe people were dropping lockdown savings into outdoor activities?

That said it makes the son look like a bit of a plonker right before a spike in gun sales, and I can see people not bothering to shop there again. Like I remember every retailer that ever pissed me off for decades afterwards

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I basically never even enter their store anymore.

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it wasn't just a loss of gun sales, it was an alienation of more than half the population. This is also an action that woke don't care about, so it was all loss and no gain.

i bet if we looked larry fink invested in them or something.

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Making it illegal and making them criminally liable for not following fiduciary responsibilities.

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If it is a public company they can be voted out of their jobs, but I don't think it is illegal to make a stupid decision. I wish it was though.

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They can be sued by their shareholders for failing in their fiduciary responsibilities.

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Not if they are in Delaware. There is a reason every corporation is incorporated there. Dissenters rights it is called. Unless things have changed a lot in the past ten 20 years Delaware does not allow for that, which means a shareholder can't bitch and moan and they get nothing, other than voting rights.

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Doesn't matter, jew money and the jew owned markets will eventually drive the price up to ATHs.

They own the markets, they own the servers that set the prices between a bid/ask, they own the currency, and they are all the funds.

They greatest profit of all is Goyim control.

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I have one a mile from me and haven't stopped there since this happened.

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Hahaha, whoopies! Dicks made a boner.

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OP makes a good point. Stated losses are probably against historic sales, not the craziness that happened in gun stores during COVID.

Good. Fuck them. Any company that codifies anti-freedom policies should not exist.

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They're expensive as fuck, but got surprisingly cheap knives there, and last season they were the only ones stocked with fishing equipment

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That’s because most people have spines and gave them the finger.

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I may be a cephalopod, but not spineless. One day us octopi will rule your kind

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