Dick’s Sporting Goods Stuck It To Gun Owners – Now Gunnies Are Returning The Favor

We well remember Dick’s Sporting Goods. After Newtown, they stopped selling Sport Utility Rifles, and cancelled sales to those who had already bought and paid for an AR-15. For every action, there is a reaction, and a link at Dan Riehl’s Riehl World View shows Dick’s is paying the price of perfidy.

Mr. Riehl linked to an overview of the results of the dicks at Dick’s dicking around with customers, and their fourth quarter sales.

Briefly quoting the Rare.us report linked immediately above:

If there’s a silver lining for all the people who were eagerly waiting for that Troy Carbine and were vastly disappointed, it’s that Dick’s isn’t doing so well in the financial department.

At a time where the only thing a company has to do to sell firearms, ammo and accessories is to unlock their doors, Dick’s sales have flat-lined. In fact, their sales dropped 2.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared to 2011 and their shares 10 percent in the last quarter.

I have long since abandoned the stock market, but I can tell you the local Dick’s store has an empty parking lot. While both the Academy and Gander Mountain stores stay busy.

Gun owners have a notoriously long memory. I seriously doubt that Dick’s will recover from their gaffe anytime in this generation.

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