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Dick's sales, stocks drop following black gun ban
http://www.guns.com/2013/04/29/dicks-sales-stocks-drop-following-black-gun-ban/ ^

Posted on 05/02/2013 6:40:48 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA

Following the Newtown shooting spree, Dick’s Sporting Goods changed their policy and stopped selling AR-pattern and other semi-automatic, magazine-fed rifles, even the guns they had already sold.If there’s a silver lining for all the people who were eagerly waiting for that Troy Carbine and were vastly dissappointed, it’s that Dick’s isn’t doing so well in the financial department.At a time where the only thing a company has to do to sell firearms, ammo and accessories is to unlock their doors, Dick’s sales have flat-lined. In fact, their sales dropped 2.2 percent  in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared to 2011 and their shares 10 percent in the last quarter.

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I know I will never buy from Dicks again......not even Rem-Oil.
1 posted on 05/02/2013 6:40:48 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

Good, these guys really are Dick’s


2 posted on 05/02/2013 6:43:30 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I never have shopped at this store. I guess that I have a positive reason not to do so now.


3 posted on 05/02/2013 6:44:19 PM PDT by Lysandru
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4 posted on 05/02/2013 6:44:30 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Red in Blue PA

yep, they cut their own throat, and now deserve to go bankrupt.

The first rule of business is to know who your customers are, they obviously forgot, and will now pay the price.


5 posted on 05/02/2013 6:44:34 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
This is causing quite a stir - making the gun control freaks heads explode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F1nPSNnaBo

only 2 minutes - pass it on after viewing. it is going viral ...

6 posted on 05/02/2013 6:45:10 PM PDT by bankwalker (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I hope they go bankrupt.


7 posted on 05/02/2013 6:45:52 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Red in Blue PA

good


8 posted on 05/02/2013 6:47:38 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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Good riddance dicks.

(capitalization and apostrophe omitted intentionally)
9 posted on 05/02/2013 6:47:54 PM PDT by The_Sword_of_Groo (My world view is accurately expressed in the lyrics of " The Fightin' Side of Me")
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To: Red in Blue PA

Tough luck. Shouldn’t have been a dick, Dick’s.


10 posted on 05/02/2013 6:49:54 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Gone Galt, 11/07/12----No king but Christ! Don't tread on me!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Good.


11 posted on 05/02/2013 6:50:38 PM PDT by CriticalJ (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Good! What a bunch of Dick’s.


12 posted on 05/02/2013 6:51:26 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1, Half Baked 50¢)
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The Dicks around here is mainly a “sports” store. But they can’t compete with the shoe store next door, or the true sports supply store down the street. During all the madness, their gun section was empty (I go in there while my bride and daughter shop next door).

They are going down.


13 posted on 05/02/2013 6:52:33 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I was actually planning on buying a pellet gun at Dick’s the day they made that announcement and then changed my mind as soon as I heard.


14 posted on 05/02/2013 6:54:37 PM PDT by RC one
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Excellent.


15 posted on 05/02/2013 6:55:41 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1, Half Baked 50¢)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Perhaps Dicks could join with JC Penny.... I hear their business is on a similar track.


16 posted on 05/02/2013 6:57:07 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
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I have never left Dicks Sporting Goods happy. Once when leaving I tore-up a sale coupon and my Dicks card and vowed never to come back.


17 posted on 05/02/2013 6:57:37 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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I never have shopped at this store. I guess that I have a positive reason not to do so now.

They don't care about you. Me, however have spent thousands of dollars there and will spend nada from this point forward.

18 posted on 05/02/2013 7:00:09 PM PDT by Starstruck (Don't rest. We came close to the 2nd Amendment being field tested.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

J C Penney’s anyone?


19 posted on 05/02/2013 7:00:09 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Red in Blue PA
I asked our coach to stop purchasing from Dick's and he agreed to when i told him why. He spread it around the league and i know of 3 other teams that stopped using them.

Glad we could do our part to hurt them.

They don't support us, we don't support them, ...in any sport.

20 posted on 05/02/2013 7:00:47 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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