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Sport Chalet closing all of its stores
OC Register ^ | 4/16/2016 | LILY LEUNG and LOU PONSI

Posted on 04/16/2016 8:16:14 PM PDT by chrisinoc

Sport Chalet announced on Saturday that it is closing all of its stores and has stopped selling goods online.

"While our online store is no longer available, all Sport Chalet stores will remain open for several weeks, offering customers the opportunity to use their remaining rewards and gift cards, and to take advantage of great sales," the chain says on its website.

Michelle De Leon, a department head at the Sport Chalet in Lake Forest, said employees found out about the store closure through their general managers on Thursday.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: bhoeconomy; economy; layoffs; retail; sportchalet
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To: Jamestown1630
I’m not sure about sporting goods, but I’m certain that online shopping is doing a real number on retail stores.

No doubt about it. You can't buy everything online, but each online order is one less trip to the mall or big box store. That means that all those impulse buys that happen when you wander into other stores "since I'm here anyway" go away. Out of sight, out of mind.

21 posted on 04/16/2016 8:52:12 PM PDT by MaxFlint
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To: howlinhound
I refuse to shop there after they bent over for Obama and stopped selling hand guns.

The Dick's in my neck of the woods (NE USA) still sells guns of all types, and they hire really knowledgeable gun people to work the gun counters.

So I'm guessing what you've noticed is a regional decision, and not a corporate decision.

22 posted on 04/16/2016 8:57:50 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: chrisinoc

To bad, bought one of my first set of skis from them and a lot of cold weather clothing.


23 posted on 04/16/2016 9:00:02 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Fungi

The post was clear.

You are out of line...it’s almost “like” you work for Dick’s.
Do you?

I won’t shop at Dick’s stores.

I don’t “like” their corporate politics.

Are you going to tell me not to use the word “like”?


24 posted on 04/16/2016 9:00:57 PM PDT by sarasmom
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“I hate to say, but some malls draw a less than respectable clientele,”

Malls on bus routes from the cities are dreadful.

Don’t go near them Saturday night. I did once,walked in,saw the roaming kids,and walked out-—never to return.

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25 posted on 04/16/2016 9:02:23 PM PDT by Mears
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To: reaganaut

Bought my first pair of Rossignol skis at the La Canada store back in the early seventies, sorry to hear they are going out of business


26 posted on 04/16/2016 9:06:45 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Online sales are booming while brick and mortar is getting slammed. I work for a company that helps companies keep their web sites and mobile apps running at peak performance. This shift to e-commerce retail is really helping us.


27 posted on 04/16/2016 9:09:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Don't plan on turning to Sports Authority as your alternative sports retailer: Sports Authority Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection, March 2, 2016. Maybe you missed it.
28 posted on 04/16/2016 9:11:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Jamestown1630

Better selection, better prices, fantastic return policy, delivered to your door in 24-48 hours. Shipping costs less than gas to the mall and back.

I bought my first pair of shoes online a few months back. I bought Timberland’s traditional shoe that I couldn’t find locally. If you know your size, you’ll do fine. Amazon even tells you if the manufacturer’s shoe sizes run on the large or small side. I’ll probably be getting more shoes online.


29 posted on 04/16/2016 9:15:03 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Fungi

Dick’s Sporting Goods is becoming the category killer in sporting goods.

They’ve usurped all of the former mall leaders in footwear because malls, on a whole, are on a tremendous downward spiral that we all know about.

They are big box big. The stand alone location near me is attached to nothing, is multi-floor, complete with escalator (How many stores even need one of those anymore let alone a sporting goods store.) and every category covered in depth.

They can crush hockey stores, diving shops, any sneaker outlet, biking stores or any half dozen or more stand alone category stores. They are the end all, be all of sporting goods.

There really has been no true national player in the category outside sneaker stores in traditional anchor/tenant malls.

They are redefining the category and growing. For every regional sporting good death and obituary look and see how many Dick’s Sporting Goods have come into their key markets in the past 10 years.

They’re doing to the category what Wal Mart did to main streets in small town America. No one else matters but them.


30 posted on 04/16/2016 9:18:09 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
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To: 5th MEB
The La Canada Store was the first location.

They were on the Corner of Foothill and Angeles Crest Hwy.

They used to get Business from everyone going up to the Angeles National Forest.

They were always known for having very knowledgeable Staff, especially catering to Skiing Enthusiasts.

I lived close by in La Crescenta and remember going in there way back when. Where has the time gone?

31 posted on 04/16/2016 9:20:40 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (It is better to live one day as a lion than one hundred years as a sheep)
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To: Kickass Conservative

In high school, I worked at the gas station across the street from the original store. This was before Mr. Olberz bought the gas station on the East side of Angeles Crest, which became the ski rental store.

The Olberz’s, when they were first starting out, actually lived in the original store for a while. He was a tough old guy, but truly earned everything he ever had. Showed up in the US from Austria with lint in his pockets and built a good business from the ground up, with hard work and quality products. They were never the cheapest, but they always carried the best quality, and if you needed work done on your skis, it would be done right the first time.

Man, that was a long time ago!


32 posted on 04/16/2016 9:34:25 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: chrisinoc

I’m another one that doesn’t shop at Dick’s. I prefer Academy by far. I’ll even go to outrageously priced Gander Mountain, Cabela’s, or Bass Pro before I’ll go to Dick’s.


33 posted on 04/16/2016 9:42:04 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Gay marriage is neither.)
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To: Fungi

since when is “like” not a word to be used?


34 posted on 04/16/2016 9:43:20 PM PDT by porter_knorr
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To: Leaning Right

Thank you for the clarification. The one near me does not sell guns.


35 posted on 04/16/2016 9:47:05 PM PDT by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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To: porter_knorr

Some folks just don’t like “like.” Like liking “like” is bad!


36 posted on 04/16/2016 9:52:58 PM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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To: porter_knorr

Are you a “Valley girl?”


37 posted on 04/16/2016 10:13:57 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Dilbert San Diego

When one of our big malls here in north Jersey was reduced to renting to a tattoo parlor (they also had vacant space), the writing was on the wall. Over the years I’d watched more and more of the kiosks move towards food of one type or other (though they have a full food court), and more and more foreigners walking around (without bags - they seem to be visiting it as a museum to the now-dead American Dream). Cellphone stores abound as well.

They don’t have a problem with “youths”, as far as I can determine (I haven’t been there in over a year); they are just in an area of tech-savvy people who save significantly by shopping online or don’t shop at all because of the horrible economy. I watched a Third World “replacement American” from Asia trying shoes on with bare feet in a big retailer there (he was wearing sandals); that about summed up what is happening here in north Jersey.


38 posted on 04/16/2016 10:37:30 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: howlinhound; chrisinoc

I didn’t know that. Kinda embarrassed that I don’t. Thanks for letting me know. I don’t get to much into boycott’s but second amendment is one area that I do.


39 posted on 04/16/2016 10:47:40 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: napscoordinator; howlinhound; chrisinoc; porter_knorr; PittsburghAfterDark
Like, wow, man......

IIRC, Dicks pulled all AR-15's after Sandy Hook.

in other news, I grew up where the original Dicks started. Two rinky dink stores barely surviving for years. And there were other local SG stores around too. They were nice little stores. Closets really. Nothing at all like you see now.

I never did any research, but the way they took off tells me that the locals sold to someone or some group with a lot of $$$ to make them grow like mad.

but yeah, I quit them when the AR decision came out.

40 posted on 04/16/2016 11:24:21 PM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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