{"id":81606,"date":"2018-09-04T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81606"},"modified":"2018-09-04T10:04:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:04:56","slug":"dicks-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81606","title":{"rendered":"Dick’s Is Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Looks like Dick\u2019s ideas of how to do things to please customers and bolster their public image is backfiring.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20180831\/dick-s-sales-soft-following-anti-gun-efforts<\/a><\/p>\n

Their consolidated 2nd<\/sup> quarter earnings (all stores, all departments, all products) are down 4%. While this can legitimately be related to the decision by CEO Stack to cease and desist gun sales and destroy remaining stock in stead of returning those products to the manufacturers, the company, with help from CNN, America\u2019s \u2018most trusted<\/u><\/em> name in news\u2019 – the network that had Maddow\u2019s bratchet-faced mug on display for hours during November 2016\u2019s incorrect\u00a0election forecast – considers acceptable a fabricated news release about this loss of earnings. <\/span><\/p>\n

CNN says now that\u00a0<\/span>investors should ignore Dick\u2019s own admissions regarding the negative consequences of their gun control positions and blame stiff competition from online retailers and the store\u2019s delicate relationship with one of its apparel brands for the inadequate performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah, okay. Denial of reality is a sign of something worse. CNN by now may be the worst propaganda rag\/network since Pravda\/Izvestia. Certainly, it is not a reliable source of information for anything. And if altering a sales report to suit their needs of reality is what CNN thinks makes them trustworthy, they have a problem.<\/p>\n

In May,\u00a0 the\u00a0Board of Governors for the National Shooting Sports Foundation<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the firearm industry trade group \u2013 voted to expel the company \u201cfor conduct detrimental to the best interests of the Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stack had already correctly predicted a negative effect on sales back in March. Loss of sales in all departments is not a good sign.<\/p>\n

Well, Gander Mountain is mostly gone into the mists of retail history.<\/p>\n

L. L. Bean has its own stores, but is still mostly camping, hiking and fishing, as it has always been. That, and duck boots.<\/p>\n

Bass Pro is still in business and seems to be thriving. Bass is the parent company of Cabela\u2019s. Bass Pro has a fish-o-rama in the spring, about when the smelts are running in the Great Lakes.<\/p>\n

I think people will go where they feel welcome, not snubbed because they want a particular product.<\/p>\n

But then, I would question the idea that someone who is so blatantly anti-gun should be running a company that he has decided should no longer sell guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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