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I have been online for two days now trying to order some fishing stuff, Find what I want, enter it into my shopping cart and try to check out. Won't let me take my " Club Points" , say's they are unable to do this at this time. OK, so I'll call in my order, Call Bass Pro, wait time is told to be 5 min, after 20 hang up. Call Cabela's, same thing,, can't get through even after waiting longer than what they say. I guess I'll just try and buy local, these guys are killing their clientele, no wonder their sales are down.
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Give them another 18 months, and the company will be utterly worthless as well.
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I stopped in the local store last week. Didn't have anything I was looking for in stock.
Huge clothing selection though, go figure.
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Cabela’s has been on a downhill slide for a while; the bass pro acquisition just quickened the descent. The last time I was in the store it became painfully obvious that the slide is now more of a free fall.
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Cabelas went to heck after Bass Pro took them over. Back in the day when the Cabela brothers owned and ran the place it was great. But they lost control when it went public on the stock market and then was sold over to Bass pro by a corporate raider who leveraged the stock. I grew up in CO just below the NE border and the corporate headquarters of Cabela's was just 16 miles from me. I used to go to the big store there on I-80 and I often saw the Cabela brothers in the store talking to customers and even helping them out. Both were really nice guys but they have gone to the great hunting camp in the sky. last time I was in a Cabela's store I left without spending a dime.
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No wonder they have large stocks of clothing, it's all Chinese made crap that falls apart after a few wearings. I bought a couple pairs of their Red Head brand cargo pants, they didn't even last a year.
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What store isn't worthless right now? I see plenty of out of stock items at every store.
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Bass Pro will let you complete an online order for in-stock items with a free-shipping total cart price, then email you the next day and tell you what they are actually sending you. They'll cancel your items that they don't have, but if they happen to come back in stock within a few months of your order, they'll reactivate that part of your order and charge you shipping as they send things out. I had a box of ammo show up at my old address about 2 months after I moved to another town. I told them I'm done with their online orders.
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I even went into a Walmart to pick up some oil and antifreeze the other day... I haven't been in one much since this Covid crap scam.... but a lot of the shelves in the sporting goods dept, were empty like the day after Christmas....
Truckers are even refusing to drive during this Covid crap...
it also costs stores a lot of money to just have stuff sitting in the warehouse, or store shelves and not moving...
its everywhere, even our local supermarkets...
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They've been 'worthless' for years now... I've only been to one once in the last 15+ years, and that will be the LAST time...
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I even went into a Walmart to pick up some oil and antifreeze the other day... I haven't been in one much since this Covid crap scam.... but a lot of the shelves in the sporting goods dept, were empty like the day after Christmas....
Truckers are even refusing to drive during this Covid crap...
it also costs stores a lot of money to just have stuff sitting in the warehouse, or store shelves and not moving...
its everywhere, even our local supermarkets... That's likely why the USA's GDP is down over 30% this year. That's well beyond what happened in 1929. In fact, its about 2.5 times the economic contraction that happened in the first two years of the Depression. Companies like Bass Pro/Cabelas that sell cheap China crap to an increasingly limited market at exorbitant prices are going bye-bye.
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They've been 'worthless' for years now... I've only been to one once in the last 15+ years, and that will be the LAST time... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^This
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On a positive note Cabelas now have great selections in women's Chinese pink Camo clothing and hats
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On a positive note Cabelas now have great selections in women's Chinese pink Camo clothing and hats "Positive", indeed.
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Been trying to buy US-made hunting clothes when possible; failing that, stuff from places not actively trying to kill us. Have picked up some nice quality unissued military camo from Sportsmans Guide pretty cheaply. Bought a couple sets of Hungarian Woodland-pattern ripstop pants and shirts, plus a French Gore-Tex parka at half the price of an identical (except for the left-hand zipper) used GI one.
Last Cabelas I was in was the Gainesville, VA one in 2017 or 18. Good supply of loading stuff, but knowing what I'd find, I didn't even look at the clothes. Anyway, my circa 1990 US-made Cabelas Gore-Tex Thinsulate parka soldiers on, still waterproof and apparently, lucky. Lotta deer went down while I was wearing that one.
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Only reason I’ll go in there anymore is if I fail to plan ahead well enough and need backpacking food at the last minute.
Chinese garbage, no In-demand ammo, and overpriced firearms Is all they got anymore.
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On a positive note Cabelas now have great selections in women's Chinese pink Camo clothing and hats "Positive", indeed. curious on their financials. Cant believe they stay in business
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Cabelas was slipping badly well before the Bass overtake - could not figure what they were trying to do and why, but the slide became more and more noticeable. Ten years ago I simply quit going to a place that once had seemed top drawer. Fortunately, still have some of the earlier Eddie Bauer and Filson wear and all of the excellent gear I ever will need.
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Went to a Scheels for first time last week. I only went into hunting area. Huge store, well stocked, some very good prices, some not so good. I’ll go back.
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