After Dick's management caved to poitical pressure and quit selling ALL firearms after the Newtown shooting, I vowed NEVER to set foot in another Dicks's sporting goods.....and to date, I have kept that promise.
....Prior to that, I found the sales staff at Dick's to be rude, unhelpful, and unkowledgable, so it wasn't a hard decision to make; just the icing on the cake.
Quite frankly, that management and owners of Dicks are.....well, you figure it out.