Dick’s Sporting Goods is in serious financial trouble, all because of its liberal decisions to ban the sale of AR-15s, and of all firearms to people between the age of 18 and 21. The Free Beacon reports:
Dick’s Sporting Goods told investors during the Goldman Sachs Retailing Conference that its gun-control stance hurt sales of its hunting business, outdoors business, and that it may close its outdoor-focused Field & Stream stores.
Edward Stack, chairman and CEO of Dick’s, said during the event that the sporting goods chain’s recent 3.9 percent drop in same-store sales was the result of a mix of factors beyond their control as well as some he called “self-imposed.” Specifically, he said, “the decisions we made on firearms” negatively affected their bottom line but the drop in sales was something they expected. They did not, however, regret their decision to change a number of their gun-sales policies and back new gun-control legislation.
“Well I think it’s definitely a factor, and it’s nothing that we didn’t anticipate,” Stack said 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.”
Dick’s first modified its gun-sales policy in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting when it said it would no longer sell AR-15s and certain other semiautomatic rifles. The retailer quickly circumvented that pledge when it opened its outdoor-focused Field & Stream chain. But in the wake of the Parkland shooting earlier this year, the chain once again pledged to stop selling AR-15s and certain other semiautomatic rifles.
Actions have consequences – let this be a lesson for all anti-gun companies.
I will never figure out why businesses choose to cut their own throats for a political agenda – especially one that will have no effect on crime whatsoever.
The title of the aticle says it all!
Let’s see what the response of shareholdersis to the comments and antics of Mr. Stack.
I was a regular at Dicks and Field and Stream.
I have 8 children who are sports enthusiast along with my 17 grandchildren. We were all constantly in these stores. After they went against the Constitution, my whole family boycotted these stores. We have 7 Veterans including myself in my family.