Re: Fat Kids kill another store
Date: January 18, 2016 07:22PM
Ya Ya Down the Tubes They Go Wrote:
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> So much for Yuppie Loyalty. When Sports Authority
> came here they sold Hand Guns and Long guns and
> had a great business. The stores had loits of
> customers and offered a large fish and gun
> section. Yuppies bitched and cried they will take
> their business elsewhere. So like Hermans Sports
> and others they gave in and got rid of the guns,
> and like Hermans there asses are going out of
> business, I don't need anything in their
> store..Their fishing dept went down the drain long
> ago, I don't need no stinking Stinkballs or Sports
> team shirts.. So Much for lousy Yuppie loyalty or
> any of the Gun Grabbers. They all went somewhere
> lese when they found it at a quarter less.
> Greentop in Richmond ,Gander Mt ,Dicks, Clark
> Bros,and Mom and Pop places get my sports
> business. Sleeping bags, cooking equip, fishing,
> clothes, as well as Hunt and fish and gun sports.
You don't seriously think they changed their business model based on *threats*, do you? Stores don't work like that. They adapt based on *sales*. So apparently what they were offering wasn't selling.
You don't have to agree with the masses, but it's kind of hard to argue with free enterprise, especially for those who are arguing for less regulation.
I don't like that my local Sears store changed (years ago) to waste a large portion of their floor space on appliances instead of hardware, but they felt they had to in order to stay in business. Now I wind up at Lowes or THD more often, and Sears loses that business. And maybe soon they'll wind up gone. And we can say ... "Moms buying appliances kill another store".
Just sayin', it's a bit simplistic to blame the retailer for responding to market changes. I hear the buggy whip manufacturers are in trouble, too...