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NFT: Sports Authority to Close All Stores

nyjuggernaut2 : 5/2/2016 12:48 pm
My first job was at a Sports Authority in High School. Always preferred going there over Modells.
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almost everything in that store  
pjcas18 : 5/2/2016 12:51 pm : link
is 10 - 20% higher than anywhere online.

there is one in my town and the only times I ever step foot in there is on the rare occasion I need something immediately, like Coleman camping fuel because we ran out and I checked the night before we left for camping.

I like their selection, but the prices are just stupid.

no shock they couldn't get out of debt.
Is anyone going to miss them?  
jcn56 : 5/2/2016 12:52 pm : link
Lousy stores - terrible inventory, massively overpriced, the people who worked there looked like they were being held against their will.
I checked the one in my area the other week  
Motley Two : 5/2/2016 12:56 pm : link
and their stuff was barely marked down and it looked like any of the decent stuff had been packed up and shipped back to the warehouse.

Complete waste of time.
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Route 9 : 5/2/2016 1:00 pm : link
I used to go to the one in Brick at least once a year before baseball season would start. They’d always have a nice selection for Yankee shirts in like 2002-2006 when I was in high school. Any player you wanted was there. Then once they got cut or retired I just used them as gym clothes.

It’s been a while since I’ve gotten anything useful there anyway, going int that store has been a huge waste of time for years. Just order online I guess. Surprised it even took this long. Do people even wear jerseys anymore? I hate the new design of the newer Nike ones. Miss wearing the ol’ mesh Shockey jersey I got after his rookie year. I got all of the championship gear from the 07 Super Bowl run there.
I can't remember the last time I went to one of those  
ZogZerg : 5/2/2016 1:05 pm : link
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Mine was empty  
Giants2012 : 5/2/2016 1:05 pm : link
3 weeks ago. Some nice deals in what was left
Dicks killed them  
ThatLimerickGuy : 5/2/2016 1:19 pm : link
Better selection and better quality stuff.

In my area we have Modells and Dicks.

If I need golf tees, that might be a modells purchase.

If I need a good quality softball glove - Dicks.

Dicks is like Macy's to Modells Kohls.

Sports Authority never really fit in IMO in what they were trying to do.
Dicks are a killer and Dicks fit in nicely  
Route 9 : 5/2/2016 1:32 pm : link
Sorry, that was too irresistible
Dicks seems to be only getting bigger & better  
Vin R : 5/2/2016 1:35 pm : link
SA couldn't compete anymore
Could not have happened to a nicer chain  
GmeninPSL : 5/2/2016 1:56 pm : link
Way, Way, Way overpriced for decades! A total rip off of a chain and I'm happy they are going, going, GONE!!!
Dicks has gotten  
B in ALB : 5/2/2016 1:58 pm : link
so big that their sales have exploded. I've been in and out of those stores for years. The overall shrinkage experienced by the brick and mortar stores has finally come to a head. SA was always a sort of cockamamie third wheel in the game and they blew their chance at being profitable while giving employees the shaft. They sold a lot of balls, but you'd be nuts to think that would be sustainable. SA yanked the chain of the public repeatedly and their revenues just could never reach around Dicks or the other big box stores.
Dicks is definitely a better store  
Jim in Fairfax : 5/2/2016 1:59 pm : link
But Dicks does not have a location convenient to me. So usually went to SA. Hope they open a store closer to me.
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DCOrange : 5/2/2016 2:01 pm : link
Amazing how quickly chain stores and malls are going away.

Am I the only one who thought going to Herman's was like going to Disney World? I remember getting a Rangers jersey with an iron on "Rangers" on it and thinking I had gone to heaven. Added a duct tape gray 7 and became a 8 year old sporting what I thought was a Rod Gil-bert jersey until an older kid set me straight on how to say it.

So much simpler when replicas did not cost $250 and the guy you had would actually be around for 10 years.
B in ALB  
Route 9 : 5/2/2016 2:01 pm : link
Well done!
RE: Could not have happened to a nicer chain  
Vin R : 5/2/2016 2:47 pm : link
In comment 12941154 GmeninPSL said:
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Way, Way, Way overpriced for decades! A total rip off of a chain and I'm happy they are going, going, GONE!!!


The last SA I went to was in PSL West, everyone in that store was miserable
Dicks  
BIG FRED 1973 : 5/2/2016 3:21 pm : link
has great sales on Giants and nfl stuff around Christmas time
Dick's..  
FatMan in Charlotte : 5/2/2016 3:23 pm : link
fits the big box mold better
RE: Retail Stores  
madgiantscow009 : 5/2/2016 3:24 pm : link
In comment 12941165 DCOrange said:
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Amazing how quickly chain stores and malls are going away.

Am I the only one who thought going to Herman's was like going to Disney World? I remember getting a Rangers jersey with an iron on "Rangers" on it and thinking I had gone to heaven. Added a duct tape gray 7 and became a 8 year old sporting what I thought was a Rod Gil-bert jersey until an older kid set me straight on how to say it.

So much simpler when replicas did not cost $250 and the guy you had would actually be around for 10 years.


wow, haven't even thought about Herman's in two decades.
I'm  
AcidTest : 5/2/2016 3:27 pm : link
sorry to see them go just because of all the people who will lose their jobs.
I sold them for years  
feelflows : 5/2/2016 3:41 pm : link
This was years in the making. You can't let stores get stale. Horrible diversifying and attracting new customers.

Dicks will take their northeast customers and academy South.
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