patrick.net

RC2006 says

How is this company even around, every time I've been in one it's empty? Got rid of guns and now all this shit, shareholders should be out for blood they are down 34% since November.

WookieMan says

Weekends are packed when I've been in them. In the midwest, at least Chicagoland, it's really the only sporting good store.

Academy is much better anyway. They are creeping up the Mississippi, so they should be in the Lakes Region in a few years.

Good Texas company.

Thank Goodness I can use them and not Bolshevik Dick

AmericanKulak says

Airfare and a few days off for an Abortion...

... is cheaper than Maternity Leave.

True, and a barren woman makes a better employee. One of my coworkers put in her two weeks notice literally the day she came back from maternity leave. I’m guessing this is fairly common.

AmericanKulak says

Academy is much better anyway. They are creeping up the Mississippi, so they should be in the Lakes Region in a few years.

Good Texas company.

Thank Goodness I can use them and not Bolshevik Dick

Competition is good. I've never heard of Academy though. The only chain store here in IL that competes is Sierra. They got David Spade doing their commercials, which is weird, as he doesn't really have a sporting goods/outdoor vibe. Maybe it's just for his whiny voice and recognizable?

I still can't comprehend how a sporting goods store named themselves Dicks. Maybe that was part of the marketing strategy though?