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07-30-2018, 06:14 PM
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Gander outdoors psa
Went to gander outdoors today as it’s the closest place that has powder. I picked up some bullseye and a box of 16 gauge shells for my son. I went to register and paid and both prices seemed higher than I remembered seeing on the shelves. Sure enough both prices were wrong in the computer. It got squared away but the reason for the post is what the clerk told me. She said there are price reductions over the weekend but it doesn’t go through to them (the register) until Monday afternoon. That makes no sense. So if you go there make sure you are paying what the shelf sticker says
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07-30-2018, 06:54 PM
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Thanks for the heads up. Won’t be a problem for me.
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07-31-2018, 07:32 AM
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Have seen that in other places,not sure they ever get the prices updated unless you catch it.
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07-31-2018, 12:38 PM
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Gander Outdoors
Haven't visited them since the buy out but went to Cabela's and felt like I was in Bass Pro Shop except they did have some elderly Smiths that you never saw in Bass Pro. Cabela's was not as interesting as I had hoped, will try Gander Outdoors once and see if anything has changed for the better. So far there seems to be a down side to buy-outs and consolidation, we'll just have to wait & see what the future holds.
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07-31-2018, 04:58 PM
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Wut? I thought Gander was completely dead and gone.
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07-31-2018, 06:29 PM
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I wandered through the Gander Mountain in Coldwater Mi. last week. Lot's of tackle but the firearms section definitely downsized since I was there last.
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07-31-2018, 08:21 PM
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Wut? I thought Gander was completely dead and gone.
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The ones around here are closed.
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07-31-2018, 08:28 PM
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Wut? I thought Gander was completely dead and gone.
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The stores in York and Chambersburg, PA were acquired and re-opened as Gander Outdoors stores.
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07-31-2018, 08:33 PM
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St. Augustine Fl one is closed.
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07-31-2018, 10:00 PM
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There is a Gander Mountain Outdoors reopened in Marquette MI. I saw the prices there were more inline with my local gun store and they had a good selection of firearms and plenty of ammo. The Reloading stuff was a little scarce, they were just getting reopened. The prices were not all in the register computers the sales staff I talked with suggested I check prices when checking out. The staff was all helpful and all appeared well trained.
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Wut? I thought Gander was completely dead and gone.
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Yeah, I thought they went belly-up last year?
There aren't any around here for me to go to, so I thought they had all gone out of business.
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08-01-2018, 07:34 AM
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Yeah, I thought they went belly-up last year?
There aren't any around here for me to go to, so I thought they had all gone out of business.
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Camping World bought the company out of bankruptcy, and rebranded some Gander Mountain stores as Gander Outdoors. The key was apparently the leases on the respective buildings and whether or not they could be renewed. The Camping World CEO was very critical of the Gander Mountain model, which was to try to be everything to everybody. His goal was to personalize the store inventory to the region the store was serving. Seems like less than half of the former Gander Mountain stores reopened as Gander Outdoors, including the one closest to me in west St. Louis County, still two hours away . . .
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Camping World bought the company out of bankruptcy, and rebranded some Gander Mountain stores as Gander Outdoors. The key was apparently the leases on the respective buildings and whether or not they could be renewed. The Camping World CEO was very critical of the Gander Mountain model, which was to try to be everything to everybody. His goal was to personalize the store inventory to the region the store was serving. Seems like less than half of the former Gander Mountain stores reopened as Gander Outdoors, including the one closest to me in west St. Louis County, still two hours away . . .
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The one up in Charlotte is being converted to a Kohls.
Store inventory wasn't their problem. It was actually a strength. Their problem was national pricing, not local pricing. You have to price competitively in your local market. Cabelas, and especially Academy, took their customers. It was obvious; everyone knew it. Gander was the store of last resort.
I hope this Camping World CEO isn't on the road to the same mistake. There is nothing wrong with regional inventory, but without regional, even local, pricing, he will be wasting lots of capital.
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Funny, I thought Camping World was anti gun.
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When the store near me closed, all of the good reloading stuff amazingly “sold out” immediately when they reduced the prices in the store 25%. The store liquidation was also weird as it took 2-3 months. A lot of merchandise was shipped in for the closing. A lot of stuff the store never sold originally. When it reopened a couple of months ago, a lot of the reloading supplies reappeared. Especially powder and primers. What is puzzling is some of the “new prices” on powder were below going prices and some were way high. I picked up some Universal for around $15 per pound and some Unique for around $18. Went in last week and everything now seems to be priced about right for a local distributor. A few bucks per pound above the big suppliers. Since the reopening, the clerks have been promising incoming inventory of bullets for loading although now they say that you should order online and pick up. They do have a good selection of firearms and seem to be priced very competitive.
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