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Just like thew rest of the horehouses, tell you how much they like you and how much better they will treat you. That Company don't give a rats a.. about you or your needs. Hate to see a gun store go out Bus. When they stand there and lie out there a.. to your face about what is being made, the factory is out of stock, ect.... when all you have to is go on line and get the factories phone # and ask. I got to pay my bills, so should they. Why would anyone want to buy a sinking ship that has been sunk buy it owne grew?

wildcatshooterlongrange

Your buttmouth stinks with all the crap coming out of it.

I work a couple of days a month for SW, so I know what I am talking about here.

Latest update on Sportsmans,

Stu the owner is selling off all the NW stores from Portland, OR
to AK includes all the WA, AK, MT, and ID stores except for one of which they are going to close down.

They are also closing down 24 stores, mostly midwest and east.
Stu is keeping the rest.

The NW stores are being sold to a Canadian company with deep pockets and will retain the SW name for two years then we'll see.
This group of stores will be the better off no doubt than the Utah corporation.

The last time I was in SW I was told a different version of that story Bob...I believe you over the dude in the Round Rock store. I like SW alot and hope they keep it going...

SU35, I got a lot of friends that work in the Salem Oregon store. I used to spend lot of money there, they have one of my game heads hanging there. I know what I am talking about, maybe not in your store. Guys have been told to hang anything on a peg so the store doe not look empty, Store Man. told me the shotguns shell where not made any more by Kent. Called Kent yep still making them, order a case that day at a diffrent gun store. Complained to Stu, the case of shell was more the store required for spcl. order. Then the next thing I knew it went up to a $250 Min. Order and thet had to have it in one of thier warehouses. I don't attack someone for expressing themselves on Forum. Next time you think about trying to trash talk someone on this forum remember you agreed to be ethical in your answer's. Notice I sure didn't call you any names, or request that you be removed for unethicl respons given to a post which was no way directed at anyone on this forum. Just the bad times I have had at that store. The truth and nothing but the truth.

I used to work PT for SW. It was a great outfit 6 years ago when I started. They over extended and ruined their credit. Even when I worked for them, I usually spent a couple hundred a month or so with Midway, Midsouth, or Natchez.

It was great fun in the beginning, but it became harder to go to work each time. They have a sorry tendency to promote incompetence.

Thats pretty much what I heard today at work. Not looking good

According to localnews8.com, based in eastern Idaho...
"POCATELLO - Sportsman's Warehouse in Pocatello will be closing within the next couple of months, confirmed the store's owner, Stu Utgaard, Monday...

The Pocatello store is just one of 23 stores nationwide that will be closing. A majority of the stores closing are located in the east. There are a total of 67 Sportman's in the country.

The Coeur d'Alene store will also close, but the Idaho Falls store will remain open."

There is no shortage of fishing lures at SW. There is no shortage of boots or shirts or canoes or camp stoves at SW. The ONLY things they're out of are ammo and reloading supplies - and that's because every SOB who shows up buys all they have. Of COURSE the freaking shelves are empty! But it isn't the store's fault.

Now, SW has the world's worst distribution system. They truck every item to every store from one warehouse in Utah. Their shipping costs (especially at $4.50 a gallon for diesel) had to be killing them. Whether the new owners can raise enough capital to simultaneously fix the distribution system while keeping stores open during an economic downturn will remain to be seen. I truly hope they make it.

But I wish even more that the self-centered infants among us would quit whining over a problem they themselves create.

What new owners? The canadian deal is a bust. Is another company looking to invest into it

I think you're oversimplifying it rocky. I can go to white elephant and they have a better selection of guns, powder, bullets, ammo, and primers than SW. White elephant is just a small locally owned business. You can't blame it ALL on the hoarders but they do get some of the blame. Not a great selection especially as of late but it's been better for the last year.

The credit problems make sense to me.

I'm with wildcatshooterslodge. There's a couple good guys in the store in the spokane but there's some real pricks too. They do flat out lie just to get you to shut up. I had a buddy order 1000 primers a few months back. They said they'd call. after three weeks still no call. He called the store and they still hadn't come in. He stopped by the store on the way home from work to pick something else up and they were putting his primers on the shelf to be sold. It's crap like that that really stinks. When he confronted the guy stocking the shelves with HIS primers he said " Oh you must be Nyles". That shows they did have the note to call him but chose not to.

I used to really like SW and I still go in quite a bit only because they are so close to home but I generally don't ask any questions anymore. I'd actually be surprised if they don't go out of business.

It almost certainly is more complicated than just a single factor. But that doesn't make any single factor UNtrue.

SW is saddled with that poor supply system, and it is almost impossible to get large loans now. People are in fact buying less, so there's a cashflow problem. The on again-off again change of ownership has to hurt employee morale (not to mention having to face belligerent and unreasonable customers all day long). And there ARE hoarders who snatch up everything they find, leaving empty and unfillable shelves behind.

If you have no cash and no credit and no income, you can't order stuff. Neither can a store.

Just got this yesterday....

here the latest on what stores are closing

http://www.sportsmanswarehouse.com/company.cfm

I hope the rest make it. I've been shopping there since the first drafty warehouse store in Midvale, UT.

Hopefully the outcome from this will improve the quality and shopping experience at the remaining stores. In other words, stock the shelves for crying out loud.

And get rid of the turkey, elk, and racoon stuff.

Looks like our store here in Billings MT is going to remain the way it is. Good. I like their store and so far have not had one problem with any of the employees.

Ammo and reloading inventory is skinny but aren't they all having that problem? Their stock of rifles and handguns still looks good.

This morning, I heard on the radio they're closing the one in the Green Bay area(De Pere). That sucks because they had the cheapest powder prices around here. Oh well, Powder valley it is then.

Well crap! I was hoping the Round Rock store would be spared and maybe better stocked in the future. Used to be my favorite place to buy reloading supplies, admit it has sucked the last yr or so though. Only 30-35 min from the house too.

Still figured it might be make it since it seemed to stay fairly busy and is the only one for quite a distance.

The closest Cabela's (Buda) reloading section SUCKS, and SW's priceess were better.

Oh well.......

Bill

Yeah, They're closing 28 stores nationwide. The store I work at in Meridian, ID isn't closing but the one in Nampa,ID is. Haven't heard anything about any sales/clearances. Hopefully now that they know which stores are staying open they will start ordering some inventory.

I work at the Memphis store, and it is on the close list. I hope the owner learned something from this, and can correct a few obvious wrongs with the system. I made several treasured friendships, and heard many great jokes and stories. I will miss it.