03-23-2009, 06:09 PM
being old I remember when SW first opened up to the public in the original warehouse, I mean a warehouse not a store. a bunch of us at sperry would go down at lunch and they had great deals then as they expanded over the years in my opinion they started expanding too much and the prices went bad like cabelas so instead of beating cabelas with pricing they raised to meet them...
I know I stopped going and went on line to get my gear.
There is too much greed for profit and people stop buying, especially impulse buying like we did when prices were awesome and they still made money off of us enough to grow the business.
Lose the business model that thrills the customer for profit and it goes away. wolfs, Zinik's all went because they forgot the formula and some big company bought them up and raised prices.
With all that said maybe now if they do clearance pricing they will again get the people into buy up good deals. Unless they do a clearance like sears in american fork and they never lower the prices below normal sales price. Store was always empty with one or two deals.
Sorry I am cheap and sporting should not be the sport of kings it should be the sport of anyone who loves outdoors. How much will be paid for the next 400 class elk in 2009. this is not good for the sport.
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I know I stopped going and went on line to get my gear.
There is too much greed for profit and people stop buying, especially impulse buying like we did when prices were awesome and they still made money off of us enough to grow the business.
Lose the business model that thrills the customer for profit and it goes away. wolfs, Zinik's all went because they forgot the formula and some big company bought them up and raised prices.
With all that said maybe now if they do clearance pricing they will again get the people into buy up good deals. Unless they do a clearance like sears in american fork and they never lower the prices below normal sales price. Store was always empty with one or two deals.
Sorry I am cheap and sporting should not be the sport of kings it should be the sport of anyone who loves outdoors. How much will be paid for the next 400 class elk in 2009. this is not good for the sport.
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