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Showing contempt for half the country is not a good way to increase profits.
1 posted on 03/24/2018 12:40:10 PM PDT by marktwain
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Shareholders...

Time to ditch your CEO. He’s trashing your company and not acting in your best interest


2 posted on 03/24/2018 12:41:20 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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Assuming the drops have nothing to do with this is the height of idiocy and denial of reality.


3 posted on 03/24/2018 12:41:27 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I am in the market for some sporting goods, and will go into Dick’s only to view merchandise for real, and price shop

And waste their time

I won’t dare spend a dime


4 posted on 03/24/2018 12:48:16 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Hey brainwashed students . . . where's your "outrage" @FBI? @BrowardSheriff? DO SOMETHING!!)
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As long as they don’t discriminate against the LGBT, I guess it’s OK, but I will will not grace their doors.


5 posted on 03/24/2018 12:52:02 PM PDT by umgud
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dicks


6 posted on 03/24/2018 12:55:05 PM PDT by goldendelicious
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The company name says it all...


7 posted on 03/24/2018 12:58:03 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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8 posted on 03/24/2018 1:00:14 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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“There's going to be some pushback and we expected that,” said CEO Edward Stack, in an earnings call with Wall Street analysts. “There are going to be the people who don't shop us anymore for anything.”

Anything is right. It isn't just guns that won't be bought at Dick's. I've bought bowling and bicycle goods from them over the last couple years. I'll never buy any sports goods from them, ever again. They lost me as a customer. Feel like throwing my bowling ball through their window, but not spending my bucks there will hurt them more.

10 posted on 03/24/2018 1:11:21 PM PDT by roadcat
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Dick’s are nothing but a bunch of pu$$ies.


11 posted on 03/24/2018 1:11:33 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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A Dicks opened near me. I’ve been there 3 time. Grand daughter likes to run around inside. Over priced. Still have yet to buy anything there.


12 posted on 03/24/2018 1:17:23 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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You reap what you sow.


13 posted on 03/24/2018 1:24:45 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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There's going to be some pushback and we expected that,” said CEO Edward Stack, in an earnings call with Wall Street analysts. “There are going to be the people who don't shop us anymore for anything.”

A CEO has a fiduciary obligation to protect the corporation's fiscal stability. This is an open admission that he cares less about his obligations than he cares about appeasing the Screaming Leftists.

15 posted on 03/24/2018 1:28:58 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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I will dance in the streets when Dick’s goes bankrupt.


16 posted on 03/24/2018 1:30:26 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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So Cal had numerous sporting goods stores around 2012. Then Sports Authority declared bankruptcy in March 2016 after . Then Sports Chalet went out of business in May 2016.

When I asked the manager of a local Big 5 how he stayed open, he said, “By selling a lot of cheap shoes.”

Dick’s Sporting Goods. Too proud to take a hint.


19 posted on 03/24/2018 1:34:28 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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Flaccid Dick’s, will they have to consider a merger with a pharmaceutical company to pump up the stock price?


21 posted on 03/24/2018 1:47:08 PM PDT by GnuThere
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You’re likely going to see firearms follow the trend of the cycling industry.

Specialized, Canondale, Trek and Giant dominate the market but don’t sell in any national chains. They are the purview of local bike shops or corporate owned stores.

Places like Dick’s, Wal Mart, Target etc. don’t care about the quality of their product they want price point and profit margin.

Now we see that no national retailer cares about their hunting or sporting customers in the face of any controversy.

The sad part is the people that would protest them are likely not even going to buy their black hoodies, gloves and masks for their local Antifa window smashing events from Dick’s. They have no idea just how stupid they are..

Also Mr. Stack is family of the founder and likely very difficult if not impossible to move. The way I read their stock owner’s report is that no one seemingly has more than 1-1.5% stake in the company and that’s from the institutional sized investors.

It would take one huge consensus and a proxy battle to move their CEO and that’s just not going to happen.

Easiest thing, don’t buy them at all and move your money to your local gun dealerships/stores.


23 posted on 03/24/2018 1:59:53 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
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Dick is supposed to sell sporting goods including firearms of course, that’s their business (what their owners invested in them to do)

DIck is not supposed to be playing politics with the company or its assets (management time, etc)

We have now stopped patronize Dick

ps to Dicks ...you need to beef up your firearms department, too... it needs more pistols and better rifles... and better ammo for that matter, too. it is like a child’s store ... customer goes in and asks for any of 7 or 8 things... firearms and ammo alike....generally has to leave empty0=-handed due to the watered-down inventory. lots of rifles on display, almost none of which are of any interest except maybe for a cub scout training class


24 posted on 03/24/2018 2:13:08 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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Is there a fund shorting these social justice warriors masquerading as CEOs?

I want in.


25 posted on 03/24/2018 2:52:58 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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Moral of the Story: Don’t be a Dick.


27 posted on 03/24/2018 4:11:04 PM PDT by dfwgator
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It’s a revolution.


31 posted on 03/24/2018 5:21:40 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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