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Dick’s May Have To Close Stores Due To Anti-Gun Decisions
Bearing Arms.com ^ | 12/7/2018 | Tom Knighton

Posted on 12/11/2018 2:19:50 PM PST by Beave Meister

I’ve written more about Dick’s Sporting Goods in 2018 than I ever thought I would. When the year started, we thought the company would have gotten the message that taking anti-gun stances wasn’t conducive to profits, but it didn’t.

So Dick’s doubled down after Parkland and purged the rest of the AR-15s from its stores and then instituted a discriminatory policy against legal adults.

And it’s biting it right in the kiester, too.

In remarks made to the Goldman Sachs Retailing Conference and first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, CEO Edward Stack explained that the 3.9 percent decline in the company’s sales during the third quarter could be partially attributed to its ban on the sale of assault-style rifles and on the sale of all firearms to customers under 21 years old — both of which were implemented in the wake of the Parkland shooting in February.

“Well I think it’s definitely a factor, and it’s nothing that we didn’t anticipate,” Stack said of the sales downturn during the call. “As we put out kind of our guidance for the year and our earnings guidance for the year, we knew this would happen when — we’ve made some decisions on firearms in the past and we’ve had a pretty good idea of what these consequences were going to be. We felt that was absolutely the right thing to do. We would do the same thing again if we had a mulligan, so to speak, to do it again.”

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KEYWORDS: 2a; 2ndamendment; ar15; banglist; boycott; dicks; guns; liberals; nra; schadenfreude; secondamendment
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Moral of the story: Don't be a dick.
1 posted on 12/11/2018 2:19:50 PM PST by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

That was so well put, you may have just killed your own thread. What else is there to say?


2 posted on 12/11/2018 2:21:03 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Beave Meister

suicide by consumerism.


3 posted on 12/11/2018 2:21:10 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true; I have no proof .... but they're true.)
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To: Beave Meister

Dick decisions have consequences


4 posted on 12/11/2018 2:21:27 PM PST by lesko
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To: Beave Meister

5 posted on 12/11/2018 2:22:30 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Beave Meister

Seems they shot themselves in the foot and without a gun!

Ironic!


6 posted on 12/11/2018 2:22:47 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: Beave Meister

HahahahahahahHahahaaaaaaawww!!! Love it! Socialism/fascism at work!


7 posted on 12/11/2018 2:23:41 PM PST by albie
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To: Beave Meister

Too bad, so sad; Not.


8 posted on 12/11/2018 2:23:41 PM PST by A strike (Import Third World become Third World)
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To: Beave Meister

Social Justice and Retail don’t mix.

Death to Dick’s.


9 posted on 12/11/2018 2:24:08 PM PST by TADSLOS (I wish Adam and Eve had been Cajuns. They would have ignored the apple and ate the snake.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

If they had just taken the time to find out who their real customer base was, and not the liberal media, they wouldn’t have made such a stupid blunder......................or maybe they would................


10 posted on 12/11/2018 2:24:42 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Beave Meister

I’m sure he consulted all of the stock holders and they were all cool with his feel good move.


11 posted on 12/11/2018 2:25:33 PM PST by HenpeckedCon (Covfefe Trump!)
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To: Red Badger

“f they had just taken the time to find out who their real customer base was, and not the liberal media, they wouldn’t have made such a stupid blunder......................or maybe they would..............”

I’d be interested to pull up the board members. This strikes me as a board level decision.

I’ll bet $100 donation to the JPFO they are all liberals.


12 posted on 12/11/2018 2:28:12 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Beave Meister

“we knew this would happen when — we’ve made some decisions on firearms in the past and we’ve had a pretty good idea of what these consequences were going to be. We felt that was absolutely the right thing to do. We would do the same thing again if we had a mulligan, so to speak, to do it again.”

what a maroon.


13 posted on 12/11/2018 2:30:50 PM PST by utax
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To: RinaseaofDs
That was so well put, you may have just killed your own thread. What else is there to say?

Well, he could've said: "it sucks to be a dick".
14 posted on 12/11/2018 2:33:10 PM PST by adorno
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To: Jewbacca
DKS info at Wall Street Journal

Similar info at Bloomberg

15 posted on 12/11/2018 2:33:55 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Beave Meister

I’ve personally boycotted Dick’s for several years after they went PC! Good for them go bankrupt! Cabela’s is ready to pick up the slack!


16 posted on 12/11/2018 2:35:58 PM PST by 2nd Amendment
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To: Beave Meister
“Well I think it’s definitely a factor, and it’s nothing that we didn’t anticipate,”

Well, did he short the stock or buy puts - or tell his friends tp do so?

17 posted on 12/11/2018 2:37:02 PM PST by Oatka
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To: Jewbacca

Chairman of the Board and CEO is one “Edward W. Stack”, son of the founder. I can’t quickly find anything damning about him, except that the decision to be an anti-gun “dick” may have been his alone.


18 posted on 12/11/2018 2:40:20 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Jewbacca
I’ll bet $100 donation to the JPFO they are all liberals.

I love your unabashed sense of pride. I wish more American Jews were like you.

19 posted on 12/11/2018 2:40:30 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Beave Meister

Way to back and fill there, Mr. Stack.


20 posted on 12/11/2018 2:40:52 PM PST by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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