Bass Pro buying Sportsman Warehouse

That's an unfortunate buyout. I like Sportsman's Warehouse, not so much Bass Pro or Cabelas.

Obnoxious, I love sportsmans warehouse's... used to.

Nothing like a good ol' monopoly!

That really sucks!!!

Bass pro sucks. Cabelas is 1/4 of what it used to be before the sale.

That stinks.

We have a BP store, a Cabela's, and a Sportsman's Warehouse here in Anchorage. Want to bet on which will be the first to close?


Jim

Johnny Morris wants to own it all. That sucks.

I feel when the purchased Cabela’s they got rid of a lot of the quality products and started selling a lot of the inferior Bass Pro China junk. I also noticed a lot of the Orignal Cabelas clothing is no longer available.

Sadly this will be the end of sportsman's warehouse.

I'm wearing Cabela's clothing I bought almost twenty years ago. Worn this clothing hundreds of times. BP Is destroying Cabela's.

We have only a cables here in Maine.No bass pro shop or sportsman's warehouse.

Well at least there is a scheels in town. I wont shopat crapalas.

I never knew the difference between bass pro and cabela's I always figured they were basically the same what's the difference?

Cheaper made products crappy customer service

Just more Chinese c#%* for sale in a big fancy warehouse.

OTG

I mostly buy from Kittery Trading Post here in Maine.

Might as well put all that Chinese #$#!#%&* all in one store under one name. IMO

I got a camo hunting coat that was my dads. Probably 35 years old. You can’t wear it out. I don’t think dragging it behind a truck down a gravel road could do it. I went on there website this year to order my boy a pair of the stand hunter coveralls and guess what. They don’t have them anymore.

I do like my Irish setter pac 10 boots from cabelas.I buy a pair about every 5 years.

GREAT store. They have sucked my wallet dry many times. No regrets on giving them my money.

Too bad for Sportsmans although I feel like the end was near for them anyway. BP absolutely ruined Cabelas. Turned them into a second rate clothing store with their Read head brand junk.

This leaves Scheels, Rogers and Fish USA IMO.

Terrible news IMO. Sportsman's was one of the last of that type store around here that BPS hadn't ruined. Scheels, Mills, and smaller shops will get many folks business around here now. I know a lot of people who wouldn't darken BPS doorway any quicker than Dicks.

Capitalists bemoaning capitalism. Sure we don't like the fact that massive centralization and lack of diversity is not good for the consumer but then why prop up with great gusto, no subsidies, may the strongest survive etc. etc.

Bryce

Sigh, it's going to be a long two years.
Myself, I'm thinking my shares in Sportsman's Warehouse went up 38 percent in after hours trading Woohoo for me and capatalism.

Its not a binary choice. and not about politics.

I knew Sportsmans Warehouse was buying the Field and Stream stores but didnt know BP was in turn buying SW. I was in Chas, SC last week and the F&S store is now SW.

On the upside, those itemsI want to be picked up can now be picked up at my local store. Oh wait, free shipping. So returned at my local store.

And I don’t like buying the cheep crap. Long for the days of Cabela’s quality. Sportsman’s was great second. Bass pro is great for fishing and letting the kids see the fish in a free zoo.

I don’t think you understand what that word means.

The blame will fall on the people that own Sportsmans. Too old to continue? Too greedy to pass up a lot of money? Can't find good help, don't want anymore aggravation?

Well darn. BP has a store just 30 miles south of me across the Tn border. Cabelas had a store in Bristol Va about 7 miles closer but about a year after the buyout the Cabelas store closed. I was hoping Sportsmans Warehouse would put a store in the empty building and give BP some competition, but that's not going to happen.

Yes

Well B.P. has ruined Cabelas , now S.W. Will be ruined.

If they keep selling Duke 330's for $9.95 I don't care WHO owns it!

Co worker. Works part time at Sportsmens. He said over a month ago that Walmart is buying SW.

Pretty much. I'm local to the Ba$$ Pro store mother ship in Springfield Missouri. It's hard to find merchandise there that's not made overseas or in China; and Cabela's is the same. If I'm forced to buy stuff made in Sri- Lanka or China I'd just as soon buy it from Wal-Mart. It's all the same.

Get ready for less guns, more toys.

STANLEY

At the risk of sounding argumentative, no it's not. I don't know how Cabela's got the Chinese to produce the quality of goods they did for them but most every item I've ever bought from Cabela's stood the test of time. BP is in the process of running Cabela's into the ground as best I can tell.

X2

that has to be a ways for you Bruce?

Couple years ago I actually visited Kittery Trading Post in Maine while on a fishing trip and it was a cool store.