Dick's Sporting Goods will remove hunting departments from 440 more stores nationwide, continuing a program that began last year when the category was eliminated from 125 stores.
Company Chief Executive Ed Stack has been a staunch advocate of stricter gun control measures since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 dead. Immediately after the shooting in February 2018, Stack halted the sale of assault-style rifles at his stores nationwide and raised the minimum age for gun purchases to 21.
Despite the boycott calls, Dick's reported its best quarter in years last November, and said Tuesday that same-store sales, a measure of retailer health, rose a healthy 3.7%. Stack has long said gun and hunting departments are low-margin businesses. In stores where the category was removed, the space was filled with higher-margin apparel departments.
The hunting department is the only reason I go into Dick's Sporting Goods stores.
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Dick's Sporting Goods will stop selling guns at 440 more storesDick's Sporting Goods will stop selling guns at 440 additional stores this year, escalating the company's methodical elimination of firearms from its stores. Thank you Dick Sporting Goods🤗 No Dick’s around here, that’s okay. Several others sell guns👍 Going now out to the shooting ranch for a good old shoot with a good old 'assault rifle' just in honor of DICKs
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