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    Looks like they're finding it necessary to close some stores.

    I wonder why??
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    Ours is closing because its lease is up. The local government basically bribed a bunch of businesses with economic incentives to locate in a new mega strip-mall complex it was also subsidizing to try to create low skill jobs for the area. Those deals are expiring and several places, including Dick's have announced they are closing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by USFREEDOM911 View Post
    Looks like they're finding it necessary to close some stores.

    I wonder why??
    That's a shame.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    Ours is closing because its lease is up. The local government basically bribed a bunch of businesses with economic incentives to locate in a new mega strip-mall complex it was also subsidizing to try to create low skill jobs for the area. Those deals are expiring and several places, including Dick's have announced they are closing.
    Was it a bribe or was it an incentive? They are different.

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    I am not for any American business going belly-up, but Dicks cannot compete with Academy in Ft. Smith, AR if they restrict the kinds of guns they sell....and they do. I suspect they’ll shuffle off to parts of the ountey where they have their niche of customers who buy lots of running shoes and leg warmers and such. I hope they succeed. American companies succeeding means jobs and revenue for our government.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    Was it a bribe or was it an incentive? They are different.
    I guess that depends on who you ask.

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    I bought a tee shirt there once.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    I guess that depends on who you ask.
    The law. The dictionary.

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    A lot of stores saw disappointing holiday sales, including JC Penney which has announced store closures. People are buying more online, it is the future.

    This has nothing to do with Dick’s politics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    A lot of stores saw disappointing holiday sales, including JC Penney which has announced store closures. People are buying more online, it is the future.

    This has nothing to do with Dick’s politics.
    You wish it didn't have anything to do with their politics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    The law. The dictionary.
    Depends on who you ask. There are plenty of people who feel there was dishonesty about the whole thing, including vastly understating to the public the true cost of the "incentives" being offered and vastly overestimating the number of jobs to be created and additional revenues that would be generated. How shocking it was for people to figure out that a dollar spent at Dick's doesn't generate any more revenue than a dollar spent at Walmart, Dunhams, or the little niche sporting goods stores.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    Depends on who you ask. There are plenty of people who feel there was dishonesty about the whole thing, including vastly understating to the public the true cost of the "incentives" being offered and vastly overestimating the number of jobs to be created and additional revenues that would be generated. How shocking it was for people to figure out that a dollar spent at Dick's doesn't generate any more revenue than a dollar spent at Walmart, Dunhams, or the little niche sporting goods stores.
    No one cares about feelings only the facts. Do you have any facts that bribes were made?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    You wish it didn't have anything to do with their politics.
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foo...row-again.aspx

    It appears to have slowed them down, but they are reinventing themselves, their stock is up and they are recovering.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    No one cares about feelings only the facts. Do you have any facts that bribes were made?
    Dishonesty is part of bribery, dolt, so if people feel this was done dishonestly then a threshold was crossed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foo...row-again.aspx

    It appears to have slowed them down, but they are reinventing themselves, their stock is up and they are recovering.
    So they're changing their politics based on economics, huh?

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